Guorui Cai

Dr. Guorui Cai
Post Doctorate Associate
grcai@umd.edu

Education

  • Postdoctoral researcher in Nanoengineering, University of California, San Diego, 2022
  • Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 2019
  • B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, China, 2014

Research Interests

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks
  • Membrane Materials
  • Battery Electrolytes
  • Battery Chemistries

Publications

  1. Guorui Cai#, Peng Yan#, Liangliang Zhang, Hong-Cai Zhou, Hai-Long Jiang*, Metal-Organic Framework-Based Hierarchically Porous Materials: Synthesis and Applications, Chem. Rev. 2021, 121(20), 12278-12326.
  2. Guorui Cai#, Yijie Yin#, Dawei Xia#, Amanda A. Chen, John Holoubek, Jonathan Scharf, Yangyuchen Yang, Ki Hwan Koh, Mingqian Li, Daniel M. Davies, Matthew Mayer, Tae Hee Han, Ying Shirley Meng, Tod A. Pascal, Zheng Chen*, Sub-nanometer Confinement Enables Facile Condensation of Gas Electrolyte for Low-temperature Batteries, Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 3395.
  3. Guorui Cai, John Holoubek, Mingqian Li, Hongpeng Gao, Yijie Yin, Sicen Yu, Haodong Liu,1 Tod A. Pascal, Ping Liu, Zheng Chen*, Solvent Selection Criteria for Temperature-Resilient Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2022, 119 (28) e2200392119.
  4. Guorui Cai#, Xing Ma#, Meruyert Kassymova, Kang Sun, Meili Ding, Hai-Long Jiang*， Large-Scale Production of Hierarchically Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks by a Reflux-Assisted Post-Synthetic Ligand Substitution Strategy, ACS Cent. Sci. 2021, 7(8), 1434-1440.
  5. Guorui Cai, Meili Ding, Qianye Wu, Hai-Long Jiang*, Encapsulating Soluble Active Species into Hollow Crystalline Porous Capsules beyond Integration of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Natl. Sci. Rev. 2020, 7(1), 37-45.
  6. Guorui Cai, Hai-Long Jiang*, A Modulator-Induced Defect-Formation Strategy to Hierarchically Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks with High Stability. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56(2), 563-567.
  7. Guorui Cai#, Wang Zhang#, Long Jiao, Shu-Hong Yu*, Hai-Long Jiang*, Template-directed Growth of Well-Aligned MOF Arrays and Derived Self-Supporting Electrodes for Water Splitting. Chem, 2017, 2(6), 791-802.
  8. Guorui Cai, John Holoubek, Dawei Xia, Mingqian Li, Yijie Yin, Xing Xing, Ping Liu, Zheng Chen*, An Ester Electrolyte for Lithium–sulfur Batteries Capable of Ultra-low Temperature Cycling, Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 9114-9117.
  9. Wang Zhang#, Guorui Cai# (co-first author), Rui Wu, Zhen He, Hong-Bin Yao, Hai-Long Jiang*, Shu-Hong Yu*, Templating Synthesis of Metal-Organic Framework Nanofiber Aerogels and Their Derived Hollow Porous Carbon Nanofibers for Energy Storage and Conversion, Small 2021, 17, 2004140.
  10. Dong Ju Lee, Xiaolu Yu, R. Eric Sikma, Mingqian Li, Seth M. Cohen, Guorui Cai* (co-corresponding author), Zheng Chen*, Holistic Design Consideration of Metal–Organic Framework-Based Composite Membranes for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 30, 34742–34749.
  11. Holoubek, John, Kangwoon Kim, Yijie Yin, Zhaohui Wu, Haodong Liu, Mingqian Li, Amanda Chen, Hongpeng Gao, Guorui Cai, Tod A. Pascal*, Ping Liu*, Zheng Chen*, Electrolyte Design Implications of Ion-pairing in Low-temperature Li Metal Batteries. Energy Environ. Sci. 2022, 15, 1647-1658.
  12. Holoubek, John, Haodong Liu, Zhaohui Wu, Yijie Yin, Xing Xing, Guorui Cai, Sicen Yu, Hongyao Zhou, Tod A. Pascal*, Zheng Chen*, Ping Liu*, Tailoring Electrolyte Solvation for Li Metal Batteries Cycled at Ultra-low Temperature. Nat. Energy 2021, 6, 303-313.

Book chapter

  1. Guorui Cai, Shatila Sarwar, Dong Ju Lee, Seth Cohen, Zheng Chen*, Metal-Organic Frameworks for Advanced Battery Chemistries, Encyclopedia of Materials: Electronics, 2022, In press.

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