2023/06-Present Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

2019/12-2023/06 Associate Professor (Tenured), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

2013/02-2019/12 Assistant Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

2011/01-2013/01 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, USA

2009/11-2010/08 Visiting Researcher, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan

2009/01-2011/01 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

The research of Prof. Ruitao Lv is mainly focused on the defect engineering of carbon-based low-dimensional materials, especially the controllable construction and atomic visualization of lattice defects (doping atoms, vacancies, interfaces, etc.), and the applications in energy conversion/storage, molecular detection and high-performance catalysis. He authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in Science, PNAS, Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun. and other high-profile journals. He served as the Editor of Carbon (Elsevier), Associate Editor of Carbon Letters (Springer Nature), etc.

2023 National Teaching Achievement Award for Higher Education (Undergraduate)

2023 Annual Teaching Excellence Award of Tsinghua University (2022)

2023 Excellent PhD thesis Advisor Award of Tsinghua University

2022 First-class Award for Science and Technology, Materials Research Society of China

2022 Excellent PhD thesis Advisor Award of Tsinghua University

2021 First-class Teaching Achievement Award of Tsinghua University

2019 First-class Award for Natural Science, Ministry of Education, China

2018  Distinguished Teaching Award of Tsinghua University

2017 Brian Kelly Award of British Carbon Group

2017 National Natural Science Fund of China for Excellent Young Scholars

2016 Beijing Nova Program (one of the Top 2 winners in Tsinghua)

2014 Distinguished Young Scholar of Tsinghua University (one of the Top 10 winners in Tsinghua)

2010 Elsevier Carbon Journal Prize

2009 Excellent Paper Award of C-MRS

BOOK CHAPTER

[1] Leping Yang, Yuchi Wan, Ruitao Lv*. Tailoring defects in 2D materials for electrocatalysis (Chapter 10 of the Book: "Defects in Two-Dimensional Materials"), 2022 Elsevier.

[2] Ruitao Lv*. Solar Energy Applications (Chapter 8 of the Book: "Carbon-based Nanomaterials for Energy Storage"), 2020 Science Press.

[3] Simin Feng, Ruitao Lv, Mauricio Terrones, Maria Cristina dos Santos*. Interactions of Molecular Species with Graphene and Graphene Sensing (Chapter 17 of the Book: "Handbook of Graphene" Volume 6, (507–532)), 2019 Scrivener Publishing LLC.

[4] Florentino Lopez-Urias, Ruitao Lv, Humberto Terrones, Mauricio Terrones*. Doped graphene: theory, synthesis, characterization and applications (Chapter 9 of the Book: "Graphene Chemistry: Theoretical Perspectives"), 2013, Wiley.

SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

[1] Yufeng Zhang#, Qian Lv#, Haidong Wang*, Shuaiyi Zhao, Qihua Xiong, Ruitao Lv*, Xing Zhang*. Simultaneous electrical and thermal rectification in a monolayer lateral heterojunction. Science, 378: 169-175 (2022).

[2] Lingxiao Yu, Shiran Sun, Yi Jia, Feiyu Kang, Ruitao Lv*. Space environment adaptability of 2D semiconductor materials. National Science Review, 12: nwaf064 (2025).

[3] Yuchi Wan, Maojun Pei, Yixiang Tang, Yao Liu*, Wei Yan, Jiujun Zhang*, Ruitao Lv*. Interfacial water regulation for nitrate electroreduction to ammonia at ultralow overpotentials. Advanced Materials, 37: 2417696 (2025).

[4] Yuchi Wan, Yixiang Tang, Yinze Zuo*, Kaian Sun, Zewen Zhuang, Yun Zheng, Wei Yan, Jiujun Zhang*, Ruitao Lv*. Interfacial hydrogen bond modulation of dynamic catalysts for nitrate electroreduction to ammonia. Energy & Environmental Science: DOI: 10.1039/d5ee00597c (2025).

[5] Yufei Sheng, Hongxin Zhu, Siqi Xie, Qian Lv, Huaqing Xie, Haidong Wang*, Ruitao Lv*, Hua Bao*. Electrically-driven reversible phonon transport manipulation in two-dimensional heterostructures. Nature Communications, 16: 1970 (2025).

[6] Yuchi Wan, Muyun Zheng, Wei Yan, Jiujun Zhang*, Ruitao Lv*. Fundamentals and rational design of heterogeneous C-N coupling electrocatalysts for urea synthesis at ambient conditions. Advanced Energy Materials, 14: 2303588 (2024).

[7] Lingxiao Yu, Minglang Gao, Qian Lv, Hanyuan Ma, Jingzhi Shang, Zheng-Hong Huang, Zheng Sun, Ting Yu, Feiyu Kang, Ruitao Lv*. High-fidelity transfer of 2D semiconductors and electrodes for van der Waals devices. ACS Nano, 18: 33131-33141 (2024).

[8] Yifan Li, Aijian Huang, Lingxi Zhou, Bohan Li, Muyun Zheng, Zewen Zhuang, Chang Chen*, Chen Chen*, Feiyu Kang, Ruitao Lv*. Main-group element-boosted oxygen electrocatalysis of Cu-N-C sites for zinc-air battery with cycling over 5000 h. Nature Communications, 15: 8365 (2024).

[9] Lingxi Zhou, Yangfan Shao, Fang Yin, Jia Li*, Feiyu Kang, Ruitao Lv*. Stabilizing non-iridium active sites by non-stoichiometric oxide for acidic water oxidation at high current density. Nature Communications, 14: 7644 (2023).

[10] Qian Lv, Junyang Tan, Zhijie Wang, Peng Gu, Haiyun Liu, Lingxiao Yu, Yinping Wei, Lin Gan, Bilu Liu*, Jia Li*, Feiyu Kang, Hui-Ming Cheng, Qihua Xiong*, Ruitao Lv*. Ultrafast charge transfer in mixed-dimensional WO_3-x nanowire/WSe₂ heterostructures for attomolar-level molecular sensing. Nature Communications, 14: 2717 (2023).

[11] Leping Yang, Xu Zhang, Lingxiao Yu, Jianhua Hou, Zhen Zhou, Ruitao Lv*. Atomic Fe-N₄/C in flexible carbon fiber membrane as binder-free air cathode for Zn-air batteries with stable cycling over 1000 h. Advanced Materials, 34: 2105410 (2022).

[12] Yuchi Wan, Zhijie Wang, Jia Li*, Ruitao Lv*. Mo₂C-MoO₂ heterostructure quantum dots for enhanced electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia.ACS Nano, 16: 643-654 (2022).

[13] Le Yang, Mingxiang Hu, Qian Lv, Hongwei Zhang, Wen Yang*, Ruitao Lv*. Salt and sugar derived high power carbon microspheres anode with excellent low-potential capacity.Carbon, 163: 288-296 (2020).

[14] Yuchi Wan, Jichu Xu, Ruitao Lv*. Heterogeneous electrocatalysts design for nitrogen reduction reaction under ambient conditions. Materials Today, 27: 69-90 (2019).

[15] Feifan Yu, Qianwen Liu, Xin Gan, Mingxiang Hu, Tianyi Zhang, Cheng Li*, Feiyu Kang, Mauricio Terrones*, Ruitao Lv*. Ultrasensitive pressure detection of few-layer MoS₂.Advanced Materials, 29: 1603266 (2017).

[16] Xuyang Wang, Xin Gan, Tao Hu, Kazunori Fujisawa, Yu Lei, Zhong Lin, Ben Xu, Zheng-Hong Huang, Feiyu Kang, Mauricio Terrones*, Ruitao Lv*. Noble-metal-free hybrid membranes for highly efficient hydrogen evolution.Advanced Materials, 29: 1603617 (2017).