报告题目：Engineering Nanostructured Materials for High Performance Electrocatalysis

　　主 讲 人：李彦光　教授 （苏州大学）

　　时　　间：8月11日（周二）14:30—16:00

　　地　　点：李薰楼四楼468会议室

　　报告简介：Nanostructured materials hold great promise for a large number of electrocatalytic reactions. In this presentation, I will briefly review the activities and efforts of our research group on engineering nanomaterials for electrocatalysis within the last two years. Several promising materials will be demonstrated as examples and their electrocatalytic activities toward hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) will be discussed in detail, with an emphasis on understanding their structure-property relationships. In particular, I will introduce our recent discovery of platinum-hydroxide-graphene ternary hybrid materials as highly active and ultra-stable MOR electrocatalysts. In alkaline media, they exhibit great durability about two to three orders of magnitude higher than all existing materials.

　　Biography

　　Yanguang Li is a Professor in the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) at Soochow University, China. He received his BS in Chemistry from Fudan University, China in 2005; and obtained his PhD in Chemistry from Ohio State University in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Yiying Wu. He then moved to the Stanford University and completed the post-doctoral training under the supervision of Prof. Hongjie Dai before taking the current faculty position in 2013. His research focuses on nanostructured functional materials for energy applications, particularly in the realm of electrocatalysis, sodium ion batteries and photo water splitting. At present, he has coauthors 45 peer-reviewed papers including those published in Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications and other top notch journals, and received the total citations of >6500 times.