Dec. 2025: We welcome Trae Leyva as an undergraduate researcher in our group, supported by the Dow Scholars Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program!
Oct. 2025: Houqian's paper on upcycling waste plastics to biodegradable surfactants was published in Angewandte Chemie!
Sep. 2025: Houqian is awarded the EPSCoR Research Fellow, NSF-NASA to support our research on critical elements recovery.
Aug. 2025: We welcome Lakma Abeyratne as a new postdoctoral researcher in our group!
Jul. 2025: Houqian is appointed to serve as secretary of the Rocky Mountain Catalysis Society.
Upcycling of Waste Plastics into Carboxylic Acids for Biodegradable Surfactants.
Li et al., Angewandte Chemie (2025)
Confined Dual Lewis Acid Centers for Selective Cascade C–C Coupling and Deoxygenation.
Li et al., Chemical Science (2024)
Hydroformylation of Pyrolysis Oils to Aldehydes and Alcohols from Polyolefin Waste.
Li et al., Science (2023)
Elucidating the Cooperative Roles of Water and Lewis Acid–Base Pairs in Cascade C–C Coupling and Self-Deoxygenation Reactions.
Li et al., JACS Au (2021)