De Li has been engaged in the development, application and mechanism of energy electrode materials for a long time. He is the first author and corresponding author in Materials Today (Impact factor: 17.793), Chemical Science (9.144), Journal of Materials Chemistry A (8.262), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (7.145), Journal of Power Sources (6.333), Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics (4.449), Optics Express (3.148), Energy Technology (2.483), Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (2.772) and other journals. He has published more than 10 papers, the total impact factor of which is greater than 60. The research projects include Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry, Ministry of Education, Nankai University (2015) Open Fund (RMB 50,000)