Prof. Fornasiero from University of Trieste, Italy, visited us today and gave an IREC2 lecture with the title “Smart Catalysts and Today’s Energy and Environmental Challenges.”The study of catalytic processes starting from well- defined materials that are tuned in morphology, composition and shape is offering new perspectives for catalyst design. CO oxidation turned out to be crucially depen...

Prof. Feng Jiao visited us today and e gave an IRCE2 Lecture named High-rate CO2 and CO electrolysis to C2+ productsThe rapid development of novel energy technologies has decreased renewable electricity prices significantly over the past decade. This foreseen cheap electricity has motivated significant research interest in the development of electrified pathways for chemical and fuel production...

Prof. Evgenii V. Kondratenko visited us today and e gave an IRCE2 Lecture named Supported VOx-based and bulk ZrO2-based catalysts for alkane dehydrogenation: Active sites, design and performance.Prof. Evgenii V. Kondratenko (Rubtsovsk, Russia, 1967) graduated from the Novosibirsk State University in 1991 (diploma degree in chemistry with specialisation in chemical kinetics). He earned his PhD (...

Yijin Kang studied chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania under supervision of Prof. Christopher Murray, after a short industrial experience at Global Research, General Electric. He received his Ph.D. in 2012. From 2012 to 2015, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory (USA), with Dr. Vojislav Stamenkovic and Dr. Nenad Markovic. Since 2015, he is a Professo...

Dr. Jinxun Liu, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, visited our lab today. He gave an IRCE2 Lecture named The Theoretical Study of the Activity of Nano-catalyst.He uses density functional theory based on quantum mechanics and massively parallel computing to research the catalytic reactions which have national strategic significance. In view of the atomic scale, he explores crystal phase...

Prof. Liang-Shih Fan, from the The Ohio State University, visited our lab today. He gave an IRCE2 Lecture named Metal Oxide Reaction Engineering and Chemical Looping Technology for Fossil Energy Conversion。Metal oxide composites are enabling materials in a variety of energy conversion systems such as solid oxide fuel cells, ionic transport membranes, solar cells, batteries, light emitting diod...

Prof. Notker Rösch, from the Institute of High Performance Computing of the Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), visited our lab today. He gave an IRCE2 Lecture named Reduced Centers of the MoVOx Catalyst for Hydrocarbon Oxidation. To Localize or not to Localize, That is the Question.Professor Notker Rösch is the head of the Catalysis Modelling Group at the Institute of High Per...

Rose Zhu and Brandon Sutherland, from Joule, visited our lab today. They gave an IRCE2 Lecture named Energy Research & High Impact Publishing in Joule.Dr. Rose Zhu(朱昌荣) is the Associate Editor for Joule based out of Shanghai office. She started her Ph.D. study at Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore) under Prof. Hong Jin FAN in 2012 after received BSc degree in Sichuan University...

Prof. Anton P.J. Middelberg, from The University of Adelaide, visited our lab today. He gave an IRCE2 Lecture named Bio-inspired Approaches to Interfacial Chemical Engineering.Professor Anton Middelberg is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences at The University of Adelaide. Prior to this he was Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and International) and A...

Prof. Lynden Archer, from Cornell University, visited our lab today. He gave an IRCE2 Lecture named Electrodeposition of Reactive Metals in Structured Electrolytes: Electrokinetics and Stability.Lynden Archer is the James A Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Cornell Energy Systems Institute. His research focuses on transport proper...

Prof. Yue Wu, from Iowa State University, visited our lab today. He gave an IRCE2 Lecture named Tuning Electrical and Thermal Properties in Nanostructured Materials.Prof. Yue Wu joined Iowa State University as the Herbert L. Stiles Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering in summer 2014. He obtained his B.S. degree in Chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of Ch...

Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon, from the Seoul National University, visited our lab today. He gave a Peiyang Lecture with the title “Chemistry for Nano, and Nano for Medicine & Energy”.Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon is a faculty member of the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering of Seoul National University. He has been focused on the synthesis and applications of uniform-sized nanoparticles and related...

Prof. Michael Grätzel, from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, visited our lab today. He gave a Peiyang Lecture with the title “Mesoscopic Photosystems For Generation of Electricity and Fuels from Sunlight”.Prof. Michael Graetzel directs there the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research in the field of energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic syste...

​Prof. Xiaodong Chen from Nanyang Technological University visits us today. He gave a talk titled “Mechanomaterials Design for Energy Storage”

Prof Gong host the ChemComm Symposium on Energy Science and Materials at Tianjin University. In the symposium, nine worldwide famous specialists discussed the recent progress and future trend in energy science and other interdisciplinary investigations such as advanced materials, nanotechnology, CO2 conversion, etc

​Prof. Neyman from Universitat de Barcelona visited us today and gave a lecture with the title “Modelling Catalytic Nanomaterials-as Simple as Possible, but not Simpler”. Welcome to Tianjin!

Prof. Studt from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology visited us today and gave a lecture with the title “Thermal and Electrochemical Reduction of CO2”. Welcome to Tianjin

​Prof. Xin Chen from Boston University visits our lab today. He gave a talk “Application of non-linear optics in surface science and catalysis”

​Our lab has moved to the new campus – the Peiyang Park Campus, which is located in the Tianjin Haihe Education Park in Jinnan District of Tianjin. The campus covers an area of 3,750 mu (2.5 million square meters) with numerous buildings designed by domestically renowned architects. Many of the landmark buildings such as the main building, library, Student Activity Center, and gymnasium gaine...

​Dr. Fanxing Li visits our lab and presents his research on “Tailored Transition Metal Oxides for Sustainable Carbonaceous Fuel Conversion“. Dr. Li is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. He has won numerous awards including the Best PhD in Particle Technology Award, the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Awar...