陈凯杰教授2008年在郑州大学获得学士学位后，保送进入中山大学继续深造，2013年底获得无机化学博士学位，2014年前往爱尔兰利莫瑞克大学进行博士后研究。2018年3月加入西北工业大学任教授/博导，2019年入选“中国十大新锐科技人物”，并于2020年晋升长聘教授。在国际顶级学术期刊Science, Chem, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Sci., Nat. Commun.等期刊发表论文50余篇，主持国家和省部级项目多项。

主要从事多孔配位聚合物材料的超分子组装与气体分离应用的研究，特别是在利用微孔径与孔化学的调控实现对工业相关重要气体的高效分离方面有较为深入的研究。

同时开展关于微介孔材料限域空间内的小分子识别，催化，导电/热等前沿课题的研究。

核心代表作：

1 Kai-Jie Chen, David G. Madden, Soumya Mukherjee, Tony Pham, Katherine A. Forrest, Amrit Kumar, Brian Space, Jie Kong, Qiu-Yu Zhang, Michael J. Zaworotko. Synergistic sorbent separation for one-step ethylene purification from a four-component mixture. Science 2019, 366, 241-246.

2 Kai-Jie Chen, Qing-Yuan Yang, Susan Sen, David G. Madden, Amrit Kumar, Tony Pham, Katherine A. Forrest, Nobuhiko Hosono, Brian Space, Susumu Kitagawa and Michael J. Zaworotko. Efficient CO2 Removal for Ultra-Pure CO Production by Two Hybrid Ultramicroporous Materials. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 3332-3336.

3 Xili Cui,*  Kai-Jie Chen,* (*: 共同一作) Huabin Xing, Qiwei Yang, Rajamani Krishna, ZongbiBao, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Xinglong Dong, Yu Han, Bin Li, QilongRen, Michael J. Zaworotko and Banglin Chen. Pore chemistry and size control in hybrid porous materials for acetylene capture from ethylene. Science 2016, 353, 141-144.

4 Kai-Jie Chen, David G. Madden, Tony Pham, Katherine A. Forrest, Amrit Kumar, Qing-Yuan Yang, Wei Xue, Brian Space, John J. Perry IV, Jie-Peng Zhang, Xiao-Ming Chen and Michael J. Zaworotko.  Tuning pore size in square-lattice coordination networks for size-selective sieving of CO2. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 10268-10272.

5 Kai-Jie Chen, Hayley S. Scott,  David G. Madden, Tony Pham, Amrit Kumar, AlankritiBajpai, MatteoLusi, Katherine A. Forrest, Brian Space, John J. Perry IV, and Michael J. Zaworotko. Benchmark C2H2/CO2and CO2/C2H2Separation by Two Closely Related Hybrid Ultramicroporous Materials. Chem 2016, 1, 753-765.

6 Baoyong Zhu; Jian-Wei Cao; Soumya Mukherjee; Tony Pham; Tao Zhang; Teng Wang; Xue Jiang; Katherine A. Forrest; Michael J. Zaworotko*; Kai-Jie Chen*. Pore engineering for one-step ethylene purification from a three-component hydrocarbon mixture. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 1485-1492.

7 Jian-Wei Cao; Soumya Mukherjee; Tony Pham; Yu Wang; Teng Wang; Tao Zhang; Xue Jiang; Hui-Juan Tang; Katherine A. Forrest; Brian Space; Michael J. Zaworotko*; Kai-Jie Chen*. One-step Ethylene Production from a Four-component Gas Mixture by a Single Physisorbent. Nat. commun., 2021, 12, 6507. (Nature Communications Editors' Highlight)