1. Education Background
Li graduated with B.Sc (1995) in Chemistry Education and a M.Sc (1998) in Analytical Chemistry from the Shaanxi Normal University. He completed his PhD (2002) training at the Southwest University with Prof. Zhujun Zhang.
2. Professional Experience
Joined the Department of Chemistry, Shaanxi Normal University in July 1998. Promoted to associate professor in 2000, and to full professor in 2003. Served as a senior visiting scholar at the Department of Chemistry, Cardiff University, UK, from 2004 to 2005 for research.
3. Research Interests
(1) Luminescence Analysis and Biosensing
(2) Preparation of Chiral Nanomaterials and Chiral Recognition
4. Representative Publications
(1) Qingyuan Liu, Miao Zhang, Chenxin Sun, Chunli Xu and Baoxin Li, Cryogenic Synthesis of Homochiral Gold Nanoparticles in the Absence of Chiral Ligands and Their Performance in Enantiomer Recognition, Inorg. Chem. 2025, 64, 12635–12643.
(2) Mei Li, Ling Zhang, Wei Liu, Yan Jin and Baoxin Li, Facile Estimation of Surface Oxygen Vacancies in Co3O4 Catalysts with a Colorimetric Method. Anal. Chem. 2024, 96, 8999–9006.
(3) Jing Lei, Ling Zhang, Mei Li, Wei Liu, Yan Jin, and Baoxin Li, Surface Oxygen Vacancy-Rich Co3O4 Nanowires as an Effective Catalyst of Luminol–H2O2 Chemiluminescence for Sensitive Immunoassay. Anal. Chem. 2023, 95, 48, 17937–17944
(4) Guiping Zhang, Qingyuan Liu, Chunli Xu and Baoxin Li, Uncovering Origin of Chirality of Gold Nanoparticles Prepared through the Conventional Citrate Reduction Method, Anal. Chem. 2023, 95, 6107–6114.
(5) Feng Li, Lin Hou, Wei Liu, Yan Jin, Jiangbo Lu and Baoxin Li, Carbon Vacancy-Enhanced Activity of Fe−N−C Single Atom Catalysts toward Luminol Chemiluminescence in the Absence of H2O2, Anal. Chem. 2023, 95, 16021–16028.
(6) Jing Lei, Wei Liu, Yan Jin and Baoxin Li. Oxygen Vacancy-Dependent Chemiluminescence: A Facile Approach for Quantifying Oxygen Defects in ZnO. Anal. Chem. 2022, 94, 8642–8650
(7) Jing Lei, Xiaoqing Sun, Yan Jin, Chunli Xu and Baoxin Li. Atomic Dispersion of Zn2+ on N‑Doped Carbon Materials: From Non-Activity to High Activity for Catalyzing Luminol‑H2O2 Chemiluminescence. Anal. Chem. 2022, 94, 17559–17566.
(8) Xiaoyu Shi, Guiping Zhang, Wei Liu, Yan Jin and Baoxin Li, Rhombic Dodecahedral Gold Nanoparticles: Chiral Sensing Probes for Naked-Eye Recognition of Histidine Enantiomers. Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 427–430.
(9) Shaochun Jing, Qiang Liu, Yan Jin and Baoxin Li, Dimeric G‑Quadruplex: An Effective Nucleic Acid Scaffold for Lighting Up Thioflavin T, Anal. Chem. 2021, 93, 1333–1341.
(10) Xiaoqing Sun, Jing Lei, Yan Jin and Baoxin Li, Long-Lasting and Intense Chemiluminescence of Luminol Triggered by Oxidized g-C3N4 Nanosheets. Anal. Chem. 2020, 92, 11860–11868.
5. Awards and Honors
Selected in 2004 for the first batch of the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Support Program. In 2002, received funding from the Huoyingdong Education Foundation's 8th Session Young Teachers Fund for Colleges and Universities. Research achievements have won 1 first prize and 2 second prizes of the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Award.
