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A Friendly Football Match Between Graduates and On-Campus Students

On June 9, 2021, to celebrate the graduates to start a new life, a friendly football match between graduates and on-campus students was held at stadium.The final score was 4 to 3. The graduates won the match. Congrats!Wish all our 2021 graduates can have a bright future

A Friendly Basketball Match Between Ma’s Group and Gonglab

On June 6, 2021, Ma’s group (C1 Chemistry & Technology Laboratory) and Gonglab (Energy & Catalysis Adventure Team) held a basketball match.At 5:30 p.m., the game started and lasted about 45 minutes.In the end, Gonglab won by a nose. We shook hands and discussed about the next game.Yan Wang, Wei Wang, Yang Wu, Jiachen Sun, Xiaohe Liu, Xianghong Li, Xianhui Wan

Five Doctoral Candidates Passed Their Dissertation Defense Today!

Huimin Li, Bin Liu, Xianhua Zhang, Chengsheng Yang, and Guodong Sun passed their dissertation defense today. Congrats!List of the thesis titles:Huimin Li: Targeted Control and Effective Utillization of Charge Carriers in Silicon PhotocathodeBin Liu: Rational Design of Si-based Photoelectrodes and Exploration of their Performance in Artificial PhotosynthesissXianhua Zhang: Design of Oxygen Carri...

Eight Master Students Passed Their Thesis Defense Today!

Shijia Sun, Zichen Gong, Ran Luo, Dongfang Cheng, Tingting Zhang, Yang Wu, Chengjie Zhao, and Yiyi Xu passed their dissertation defense today. Congrats!List of the thesis titles:Shijia Sun: Design of Active Sites on the GaOx Surface in Propane Dehydrogenation from Density Functional TheoryZichen Gong: Construction for Efficient Unbiased Water Splitting Devices Based on Matched Energy-BandRan Lu...

A Friendly Football Competition Between Ma’s Group and Gonglab

On May 16, 2021, Ma’s group (C1 Chemistry & Technology Laboratory) and Gonglab (Energy & Catalysis Adventure Team) held a football match.Two teachers, Sheng Zhang of Ma’s group and Peng Zhang of Gonglab, took part in the friendly competition.Students of Gonglab who participated in the match were listed as follows.The first row, Xiwen Song, Shuai Wang, Ran Luo, Bin Liu.The second row, Bo Wu, X...

Two Graduate Students Passed Their Thesis Defense Today!

Quan Xiao and Jieli Wang passed their thesis defense today. Congrats!List of the thesis titles:Quan Xiao: Investigation on the modulation of supported Pt catalysts for CO oxidationJieli Wang: Structural construction and catalytic performance of Pt-Sn catalysts for propane dehydrogenationAll the best to all of them!Quan XiaoJieli WangJieli Wang, Jinlong Gong, Quan XiaoChunlei Pei, Jingkun Li, Ji...

Two Doctoral Candidates Passed Their Dissertation Defense Today!

Sai Chen and Congling Hu passed their dissertation defense today. Congrats!List of the thesis titles:Sai Chen: Dehydrogenation of Propane on Metals and Metal OxidesCongling Hu: Electrochemical Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction Catalysts Design and Their Mechanism ComprehensionAll the best to all of them!Sai ChenCongling H

Fifteen Students Passed Their Preliminary Exam Today!

Shiyu Zhen, Xiwen Song, Xinyan Wang, Xian Yao, Xiaohe Liu, Yan Wang, Chenggong Jiang, Hongbo Song, Hui Gao, Hao Dong, Qingzhen Wang, Tao Liu, Lulu Li, Mengmeng Zhang, and Jiachen Sun passed their preliminary exam today. Congrats!Master studentsList of the proposal titles:Shiyu Zhen: Density Functional Theory Study on Cu-based Alloy Catalyst for CO2 ReductionXiwen Song: Mechanistic Investigation...

Welcome new students to join our lab!

Welcome new students to join our lab!Master students: Shixuan Zhao, Tingting Yang, Xiaozhi Li, Lili Zhang, Yuan Chen, Guan Li, Xiaowei Du, Yanglang Li.PhD students: Peipei Jia, Chujun Wang, Zheyuan Ding, Shican Wu, Yixian Wang, Chaoxi Wang, Pingping Wei

Seven Graduate Students Passed Their Thesis Defense Today!

Hao Tian, Xintong Yuan, Yufei Xie, Sihang Liu, Zhiqiang Chen, Rui Liu and Hongfang Li passed their dissertation defense today. Congrats!List of the thesis titles:Hao Tian: Mechanistic Investigations on Metal-Support Interaction of Ni-based Catalysts for Ethanol Steam ReformingXintong Yuan: Design and Performance of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction CatalystsYufei Xie: Support Effects on the Cataly...

Zhang Peng and Xiaoxia won excellent doctoral dissertations in Tianjin!

Zhang Peng ’s thesis ‘Effective Charge Carrier Utilization in Semiconductor Photocatalysts’ and Xiaoxia ’s thesis ‘Catalytic System Design and Mechanism Investigation for Photoelectrocatalytic CO2 Reduction’ won the Tianjin Excellent Doctoral Dissertation!Congratulations!2019-12-3

Chen Sai and Xintong win 2019 Research Stars of Gonglab

Gonglab’s 2019 Annual Summing-up Meeting was held today.The winners of 2019 are:Research Star of Gonglab:Sai Chen (PhD)Xintong Yuan (Master)Best Newcommer:Jia Yu, Hongbo Song2nd Prize of Research Stars:Bin Liu, Chengsheng Yang and Shuai Wang3rd Prize of Research Stars:Wanyu Deng, Yanan Wang, Rui Liu and Lulu LiNatrual convincer:Gong ZhangPerspective provider:Chen Zhao, Yan WangLeading goose:Xi...

Five Students Win 2019 National Scholarship!

Five Students Win 2019 National Scholarship!Posted on 2019-11-13Congratulate Congling Hu, Chengsheng Yang, Wanyu Deng, Xintong Yuan and Sihang Liu on receiving the National Scholarship!

Dr. Xiaoxia Chang won silver award for Ph.D. thesis in chemical engineering and material

Dr. Xiaoxia Chang won silver award for Ph.D. thesis in chemical engineering and material!This award was founded by Shandong Chambroad HoldingGroup Co., Ltd., which aim is to reward outstanding Ph.D. thesises in Chemical engineering and material.Dr. Xiaoxia Chang received his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering  2018, under the supervision of ProfessorJinlong Gong. He is currently a postdoctora...

Six Graduate Students Passed Their Thesis Defense Today!

Wenjin, Yihe, Piaoping, Chuanye, Li Kang and Sier passed their dissertation defense. Congrats!List of the thesis titles:Wenjin: Metal Nanocatalysts for Carbon Dioxide ElectroreductionYihe: Controllable Synthesis of High Atom Efficiency Pt-based Catalysts and their High Electrochemical Activity for Hydrogen Evolution ReactionPiaoping: Density Functional Theory Investigation of Structure-Performa...

Guodong and Wenjin Win 2018 Research Stars of Gonglab

​Gonglab’s 2018 Annual Summing-up Meeting was held today.The winners of 2018 are:Research Star of Gonglab:Guodong Sun (PhD)Wenjin Zhu (Master)Best Newcommer:Sihang Liu2nd Prize of Research Stars:Congling Hu, Sai Chen and Gong Zhang3rd Prize of Research Stars:Jieli Wang, Yanan Wang, Piaoping Yang and Bin Li

Hao Passed his Thesis Defense Today!

Hao Dong passed his dissertation defense today. Congrats!His thesis title: Facet effects on noble metal nanometarials for CO2 electroreduction

Congratulate Wenjin Zhu on winning 2018 Students Science Award!

This award set by Tianjin University is regarded as Nobel Prize for students (Annually elect ~2 among ~10000 master students), aiming to award students with outstanding academic or research output and encourage more students to be creative and progressive. Wenjin entered Gonglab as a recommended postgraduate (TOP 5%) since 2016 and behaved impressively on scientific researches. The impact facto...

Welcome our freshmen

We are excited to welcome 27 new graduate students to the Energy & Catalysis Adventure Team. They are Dongfang Cheng, Engr.Bilal Fareed, Hui Gao, Zichen Gong, Hui Ke, Zhuo Li, Xiaoyun Lin, Yan Lin, Zhenpu Lu, Ran Luo, Jian Qin, Mingxue Shi, Zi Shi, Shijia Sun, Qingzhen Wang, Tianzuo Wang, Yang Wang, Yongtao Wang, Zhongyan Wang, Bo Wu, Yang Wu, Yiyi Xu, Jiachuan Yu, Tenghui Yuan, Tingting Zhang,...

Eleven Graduate Students Passed Their Thesis Defense Today!

Li Ang, Zhibin, Xiaoxia, Jijie, Chengcheng, Shenjun, Jiubing, Weiting, Li Hao, Mengxin and Shanshan passed their dissertation defense today. Congrats!List of the thesis titles:Li Ang: Rational Regulation and Effective Utilization of Charge Carriers in PhotocatalystsZhibin: Effective Charge Carrier Utilization in Hematite PhotoanodesXiaoxia: Catalytic System Design and Mechanism Investigation fo...

Congling and Piaoping Win 2017 Research Stars of Gonglab

Gonglab’s 2017 Annual Summing-up Meeting was held on Jan 17 and 22.The winners of 2017 are:Research Star of Gonglab:Congling Hu (PhD)Piaoping Yang (Master)Best Newcommer:Gong Zhang2nd Prize of Research Stars:Xiaoxia Chang, Sai Chen and Chengcheng Li3rd Prize of Research Stars:Hao Li, Chengsheng Yang, Shenjun Zha and Wenjin Zh

Tengfang Passed his Dissertation Defense

Tengfang passed his dissertation defense today. Congrats! The title of his thesis is “Study on the Catalytic Performances and Mechanism of Propane Dehydrogenation over Supported vanadium Catalysts”. He will start his new career in Huizhou Yussen Chemical Co.,Ltd. All the best, Tengfang!

Welcome our freshmen!!!

​We are excited to welcome 19 new graduate students to the Energy and Environmental Catalysis Group. They are Xin Chang, Zhiqiang Chen, Hongfang Li, Lulu Li, Bin Liu, Rui Liu, Sihang Liu, Tao Liu, Jieli Wang, Meilin Wang, Shujie Wang, Xianhui Wang, Quan Xiao, Yufei Xie, Xintong Yuan, Gong Zhang, Xianhua Zhang, Chen Zhao and Jing Zhao. Welcome!

Xiaoxia is elected as SciFinder Future Leader

​Xiaoxia is elected as SciFinder Future Leader. The program select only 24 Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers from around the world to collaborate with CAS scientists, innovators, and business leaders to expand their professional network and build connections.Congratulations!

Welcome Dr. Janewit Phromprasit to visit our research lab for the collaborative research between Tianjin University and Chulalongkorn University

Welcome Dr. Janewit Phromprasit to visit our research lab for the collaborative research between Tianjin University and Chulalongkorn University. The research topic is hydrogen production from sorption enhanced ethanol steam reforming using multifunctional catalysts. Feel free to discuss with Janewit about reforming catalyst and CO2 sorbent. 

13 New Group Members!!!

​We are excited to welcome 13 new graduate students to the Energy and Environmental Catalysis Group. They are Wanyu Deng, Shijia Feng, He Li, Kang Li, Sier Sang, Jimin Song, Guishuo Wang, Qi Wang, Yanan Wang, Yihe Wang, Chuanye Xiong, Piaoping Yang, and Wenjin Zhu. Welcome

Xiaoxia’s Work on is Highlighted by Materials Views.

​Xiaoxia’s work on “Stable Aqueous Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction by Cu2O Dark Cathode with Improved Selectivity for Carbonaceous Products“ is highlighted by Materials Views. Highlighted by Materials Views: “Turning Greenhouse Gas to Valuable Carbonaceous Products in High Yield,” May 27, 2016