Jie He

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

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Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland, College Park, 2011-2013
• Ph.D. Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, 2010
• M.S. Sichuan University, China, 2007
• B.S. Sichuan University, China, 2005

Research Focus

• Bio-inspired catalysis
• Renewable energy conversion
• CO2 reduction; Porous materials
• Responsive polymers

Publications

Lei Jin, Ehab Shaaban, Scott Bamonte, Daniel Cintron, Seth Shuster, Lei Zhang, Gonghu Li,* Jie He,* Surface Basicity of Metal@TiO2 to enhance photocatalytic efficiency for CO2 reduction, ACS Appl. Mater. Interface. 2021, in press.

Lei Jin, Chung-Hao Liu, Daniel Cintron, Qiang Luo, Mu-Ping Nieh, Jie He,* Structural engineering in self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers with reactive additives: micelles, vesicles and beyond, Langmuir 2021, in press.

Hanyi Duan, Qiang Luo, Zichao Wei, Yao Lin, Jie He, Symmetry-broken patches on gold nanoparticles through deficient ligand exchange, ACS Macro Lett. 2021, 10, 786-790.

Peipei Huang, Jiahao Huang, Junying Li, Lei Zhang, Jie He, Christine A Caputo, Anatoly I Frenkel, Gonghu Li, Effect of carbon doping on CO2‐reduction activity of single cobalt sites in graphitic carbon nitride, ChemNanoMat, 2021, in press.

Jingyi Xue, Zhenshun Li, Hanyi Duan, Jie He, Yangchao Luo, Chemically modified phytoglycogen: Physicochemical characterizations and applications to encapsulate curcumin, Coll Surf B Biointerface, 2021, 205, 11829.

Kuikun Yang, Shaoyi Zhang, Jie He, Zhihong Nie,* Polymers and inorganic nanoparticles: a winning combination towards assembled nanostructures for cancer imaging and therapy, Nano Today, 2021, 36, 101046.

Mingzhen Hu, Wenjuan Yang, Haiyan Tan, Lei Jin, Lei Zhang, Peter Kerns, Yanliu Dang, Shan-ka Dissanayake, Samuel Schaefer, Ben Liu, Yuanyuan Zhu, Steven L. Suib, Jie He, Tem-plate-free synthesis of mesoporous and crystalline transition metal oxide nanoplates with abun-dant surface defects, Matter 2020, in press.

Zichao Wei, Srinivas Thanneeru, Elena Rodriguez, Gengsheng Weng, Jie He, Adaptable Eucontaining polymeric films with dynamic control of mechanical properties in response to moisture, Soft Matter 2020, in press.

Xingsong Su, Yuanmiao Sun, Lei Jin, Lei Zhang, Yue Yang, Peter Kerns, Ben Liu, Shuzhou Li, Jie He, Hierarchically porous Cu/Zn bimetallic catalysts for highly selective CO2 electroreduction
to liquid C2 products, Appl. Catal. B Environ. 2020, 269, 118800.

Lei Jin, Ben Liu, Michael E. Louis, Gonghu Li, and Jie He, Highly crystalline mesoporous titania loaded with monodispersed gold nanoparticles: controllable metal-support interaction in porous materials, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 9617-9627.

Lei Jin, Xingsong Su, Jianhang Shi, Kuo-Chih Shih, Daniel Cintron, Tong Cai, Mu-Ping Nieh, Ou Chen, Steven L. Suib, Menka Jain, Jie He, Crystalline Mesoporous Complex Oxides: Porosity-
Controlled Electromagnetic Response, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 30, 1909491.

Srinivas Thanneeru, Kaitlynn M Ayers, Murali Anuganti, Lei Zhang, Challa V Kumar, Gaël Ung, Jie He, N-Heterocyclic carbene-ended polymers as surface ligands of plasmonic metal nanoparticles, J. Mater. Chem. C 2020, 8, 2280-2288.

Mingzhen Hu, Lei Jin, Yuanyuan Zhu, Lei Zhang, Xingxu Lu, Peter Kerns, Xingsong Su, Sen Cao, Puxian Gao, Steven L Suib, Ben Liu, Jie He, Self-limiting growth of ligand-free ultrasmall bimetallic nanoparticles on carbon through under temperature reduction for highly effi-cient methanol electrooxidation and selective hydrogenation, Appl. Catal. B Environ. 2020, 264, 118553.

Mingzhen Hu, Lei Jin, Xingsong Su, Scott Bamonte, Xingxu Lu, Puxian Gao, Steven L Suib, Ben Liu, Jie He, Polymer-assisted co-assembly towards synthesis of mesoporous titania encapsulated monodisperse PdAu for highly selective hydrogenation of phenylacetylene, Chem-CatChem 2020, in press. (#Equal contribution).

Chenglin Yi, Yiqun Yang, Ben Liu, Jie He, Zhihong Nie, Polymer-Guided Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticles, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2020, 49, 465-508.