报告题目：Earth Abundant Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting

主讲嘉宾：Chuan Zhao（School of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney, Australia, NSW2052）

时　 间：8月21日（周三）10：30—12：00

地　 点：李薰楼249会议室

报告简介

The increasing demands for clean energy have triggered tremendous research interests on electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems with minimum environmental impact. Electrolytic water splitting holds the promise for global scale storage of renewable energy, e.g., solar and wind in the form of hydrogen fuel, enabling the continuous usage of these diffusive and intermittent energy sources when used together with fuel cells.1,2 Nevertheless, the widespread application of water splitting technology has been severely constrained by the use of precious metal catalysts, such as oxides of ruthenium and iridium for the anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and platinum for the cathodic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). This presentation concerns our recent progress in developing non-precious metal-based, carbon-based and metal-organic framework-based water splitting catalysts, as well as our strategies for enhancing the efficiency of these catalysts by nanostructuring to a level comparable to that of precious metal catalysts.3-11 The commercialisation of some our catalysts in water electrolysis industry also will be discussed.

参考文献：

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10. Duan, J.; Chen, S.; Zhao, C. Nat Commun., 2017, 8, 15341

11. LI, Y and Zhao et al, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 2019, 58,461-466

主讲嘉宾简介：

澳大利亚新南威尔士大学（The University of New South Wales，UNSW）化学院终身教授，皇家澳大利亚电化学会 (EDRACI) 主席，澳大利亚研究委员会Future Fellow，英国皇家化学会会士（FRSC），澳洲皇家化学会会士（FRACI），皇家新南威尔士会会士（FRSN）。2002年，西北大学博士毕业，2002-2006年在德国奥尔登堡大学（Carl von Ossietzky Universitt Oldenburg）化学系从事博士后研究工作，2006-2010年澳大利亚蒙纳士大学（Monash University）化学院ARC绿色化学中心任高级研究员。赵川教授的研究兴趣包括纳米电化学技术及其在清洁能源中的应用。近年来发表高水平SCI论文百余篇，包括多篇以通讯作者发表在Nat. Commun，J. Am. Chem. Soc，Angew. Chem. Int. Ed期刊上的热点论文和高引用频率排行论文。其科研成果多次被包括新华社在内的国际主流新闻媒体报道，获国际发明专利4项，澳大利亚发明专利5项，多项成果商业化，其制氢项目2016年入选中国科技部首个海外高科技火炬创新园。

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