"Hot Carrier Relaxation in CsPbBr3‑Based Perovskites: A Polaron Perspective"
Prof. Hirendra N. Ghosh
(INST, Mohali, India)
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Prof. Hirendra. N. Ghosh is currently senior Professor and former Director (offg) of Institute of Nanoscience and Technology (INST), Mohali and is on deputation from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai from January 2017. Prof. Ghosh has obtained his PhD degree from University of Mumbai in 1996. His current research interest includes ultrafast interfacial electron transfer and charge carrier relaxation dynamics in semiconductor nanoparticles, hybrid nano-structures, plasmonic and 2D materials and using different ultrafast techniques. Prof. Ghosh has published more than 200 research papers in highly reputed International Journals, and his research papers have been cited more than 8000 by peers in the field (h-index = 45). He is the recipient of several awards and honours including INSA young scientist medal (1998), A. K. Bose Memorial Award (2000), APA-Prize for Young Scientist (2004), Homi Bhabha Science & Technology Award (2010), CRSI Bronze Medal (2011), C. N. R. Rao National Prize for Chemical Research (2014) and DAE-SRC Outstanding Investigator Award (2012). He is the fellow of all three major academia of India like Fellow of National Academy of Science (F.N.A.Sc.), Fellow of Academy of Science (F.A.Sc.), and Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (F.N.A.). He is also recipient of J C Bose National Fellowship as received from DST, Govt of India. He served as a Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Chemical Physics, Journal of Physical Chemistry (A/B/C) and Letters.
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"Controllable Modulation of Vacancy Defects in ZnS and ZnO for Solar Fuel Production"
Prof. Tao He
(Nat'l Center for Nanoscience and Tech., China)
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Tao He is professor in CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication at National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China. He received his PhD in Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002. After postdoctoral study in Weizmann Institute of Science and Rice University, he joined National Center for Nanoscience and Technology since 2009. He published over 140 peer-reviewed papers regarding photoelectric functional materials. Current research focuses on preparation of nanocatalysts for solar fuel production, specifically for photocatalytic reduction of CO2. He was selected by Hundred-Talent Program (Chinese Academy of Sciences) in 2009.
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"Perovskite-type Semiconductor Photocatalysts for Water Splitting"
Prof. Takashi Hisatomi
(Shinshu Univ., Japan)
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Takashi Hisatomi received his PhD in Engineering from the University of Tokyo under Prof. Dr. Domen’s supervision in March 2010. He studied as a postdoctoral fellow in Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from April 2010 to March 2012. He moved to the University of Tokyo in April 2012 as a postdoctoral fellow and acquired a position of Assistant Professor in August 2012. He moved to Shinshu University as Associate Professor in April 2018. He has also been working as a JST-PRESTO Researcher since November 2020. His major research interests are semiconductor photocatalysts for overall water splitting, kinetics and reaction selectivity of photoexcited carriers in semiconductors, and reaction systems and processes for renewable solar fuel production.
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"Semiconductor Heterostructures for Photoconversion Applications"
Prof. Yung-Jung Hsu
(Nat'l Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
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Yung-Jung Hsu is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He received his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. After his postdoctoral fellow working at National Tsing Hua University, he joined National Chiao Tung University and started the independent research career in 2007. His research interests include design of advanced nanostructures, investigation of interfacial charge carrier dynamics and development of renewable energy technology.
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"Solar Powered Chemistry: Highly Stable and Selective Gas-Phase Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction"
Prof. Su-Il In
(DGIST, Korea)
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Prof. SU-IL IN has been working at DGIST since 2012. He was Dean of External and International Affairs at DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) in 2016~2017. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge in 2008. He then became a postdoctoral research associate at the Technical University of Denmark in 2010. He also joined the Department of Chemistry at Pennsylvania State University as a postdoctoral fellow before joining DGIST. Professor In’s current researches include synthesis and analysis of functional nano (bio)-materials for environmentally friendly renewable energy such as photovoltaic, heterogeneous catalysis and biocatalysts. (https://insuil.dgist.ac.kr/)
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"Charge Recombination Processes in TiO2 Photocatalysts Studied by Highly Sensitive Transient Absorption Spectroscopy"
Prof. Ryuzi Katoh
(Nihon Univ., Japan)
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- Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University, Japan (1986-1995)
- PhD from Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University, Japan (1992)
- Guest Scientist, Hahn-Meitner Institute, Germany (1993-1994)
- Senior Researcher, National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research (NIMC), Japan (1995-2001)
- Senior Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan (2001-2011)
- Professor, Nihon University (2011-)
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"Hydrogen Production from Alcohol Solution Using FeOOH"
Prof. Ken-ichi Katsumata
(Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Japan)
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Ken-ichi Katsumata is Associate Professor at Department of Materials Science and Technology, Faculty of Advanced Engineering, Tokyo University of Science. He received Ph. D. degree at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Akira Nakajima) in 2006. From 2006 to 2009, he worked in functional materials team (Director: Prof. Akira Fujishima) at Central Japan Railway Company as a researcher. Then, he worked at Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology as Assistant Professor (2009-2014) and Lecturer (2014-2015), where he studied about synthesis of photocatalytic materials with specific nanostructures (nanosheet, nanotube, nanocrystal, etc.) (with Prof. Kiyoshi Okada, Prof. Nobuhiro Matsushita). Then, he worked at Photocatalysis International Research Center, Tokyo University of Science as Associate Professor (2015-2019), where he studies about the practical application and commercialization of photocatalysts (Director: Prof. Akira Fujishima). Now, he interests in preparation of environmental purification materials applied on earth and in space.
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"Efficient Light Harvesting for Metal Oxide based Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversions"
Prof. Jung Kyu Kim
(Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)
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Prof. Jung Kyu Kim is a tenure‐track assistant professor in School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). He received his bachelor's and Ph.D. degree from SKKU in 2010 and 2015. Prior to getting his faculty position in SKKU in Mar. 2018, he was a postdoctoral visiting research scholar in the research group of Prof. Xiaolin Zheng at Stanford University, USA (2015-2018). Since Mar. 2018, his research group focuses on diverse energy conversions with tailored nanostructures including solar‐to‐electric, solar‐to‐electrochemical, and electric‐to‐chemical energy conversions.
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"Fabrication of Hierarchical Inverse Opal Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Degradation of Bisphenol a, Methylene Blue, Rhodamine B, and Tetracycline as Target Organic Pollutants"
Prof. Byeong-Kyu Lee
(Univ. of Ulsan, Korea)
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Byeong-Kyu Lee is a Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Ulsan (UOU), Ulsan, Korea. Prof. Lee received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Massachusetts, USA. He worked as a Visiting Scientist and Professor at Harvard University and University of Minnesota. Prof. Lee served as a Vice Chairman of Foundation for Industry Cooperation and was the Director of Brain Korea 21 Project at UOU. He received a Service Merit Medal of Korea from Korean Government and Outstanding Professor Awards from AWMA and APSM. He also received a Professor Award of the Year and awarded a Distinguished Professor in Research Awards at UOU. Prof. Lee’s current research interests include visible light driven photocatalytic treatments of organics, VOCs and bioaerosols, photocatalytic CO2 conversion into solar fuels, and photoelectrochemical H2 production (water splitting). He also has great interests in air pollution and particle control. Currently, he has published over 200 peer-reviewed SCI papers in scientific journals. He also has published 48 patents including 3 US patents and 18 books or book chapters. He has been invited to many international scientific conferences as a plenary speaker, keynote speaker, and invited speaker.
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"Scalable Solar Energy Storage and Conversion via Photocatalytic Water Splitting"
Prof. Rengui Li
(Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
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Rengui Li received his B.S. degree from Xiamen University in 2009, and PhD degree from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Can Li. He worked as a visiting research associate in Prof. K. Domen’s group at the University of Tokyo (2011) and in Prof. Harry Atwater’s group at California Institute of Technology (2019-2020). He started his career at State Key Laboratory of Catalysis in DICP as an associate Professor in 2014. From 2017, he is working as group leader of Mocro/Nano Photo(electro)catalyst and Photocatalysis Research Group in Solar Energy Division of DICP. He was promoted as a full professor at DICP in 2018. His research interest is mainly focused on the photocatalytic solar energy conversion. He has published more than 50 papers on Nature Commun., Joule、Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater. Energy Environ. Sci., ACS Energy Lett. etc. with more than 4000 citations. Dr. Rengui Li won various academic awards including Young Scientist Prize at International Congress on Catalysis and Rising Star in Catalysis of China.
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"Generation of Hydrogen via Electrolysis of Biomass"
Prof. Hong Li
(Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)
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Dr. Hong Li is currently a Nanyang Assistant Professor in School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Before he joined NTU in June 2016, he was a postdoc in Stanford University in United States. His research focuses on developing new nanomaterials for optoelectronics and catalysts for energy conversion and storage, including hydrogen generation, biomass valorization etc. Dr. Li has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in international journals including Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Nano Letters, Journal of American Chemical Society etc. His publications have received more than 11, 000 citations.
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"Metal Oxide-Based Materials for Photocatalytic Conversion of Greenhouse Gases"
Dr. Jingxiang Low
(Univ. of Sci. and Tech. of China, China)
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Jingxiang Low obtained his B.Eng. (Hons) from Multimedia University, Malaysia and his Master/PhD degree in materials science from Wuhan University of Technology, China. He is currently working at the University of Science and Technology of China as Associate Professor (research). His current research interests include the developments of in situ/operando methodology toward the liquid/solid interfacial study, synthesis of metallic nanocrystals and semiconductor nanomaterials for solar energy conversion. He has published more than 40 scientific papers in J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., Chem. Rev., Chem. Commun., J. Phys. Chem. Lett., etc., which were cited more than 12,000 times (h-index: 30). Ten of his published papers are SCI highly cited papers. Three of his works were selected as "China's 100 most influential international academic papers" in 2017 and 2019. He was awarded as “CAS President's International Fellows” in 2018, and listed as top 100,000 ranked scientists worldwide (PLOS biology) in 2020. He is currently serving as Topic Editor for the journal Crystals.
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"Visible-light Water Splitting and CO2 Fixation Using Metal Complex/Semiconductor Hybrid Materials"
Prof. Kazuhiko Maeda
(Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
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Kazuhiko Maeda received his PhD from The University of Tokyo (2007) under the supervision of Professor Kazunari Domen. During 2008–2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow at The Pennsylvania State University, where he worked with Professor Thomas E. Mallouk. He then joined The University of Tokyo as an Assistant Professor in 2009. Moving to Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2012, he was promoted to an Associate Professor. He was also appointed as a PRESTO/JST researcher during 2010-2014. His major research interest is heterogeneous photocatalysis for light to chemical energy conversion, with a focus on water splitting and CO2 fixation. He published more than 220 peer-reviewed papers on international journals with more than 40,000 citations and h-index of 84.
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"Low Dimensional Tin Perovskite Solar Cells"
Prof. Zhijun Ning
(ShanghaiTech Univ. China)
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Zhijun Ning is a tenured professor at the School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, China. His work focus on solution processed optoelectronic materials and devices. Using materials design and synthesis, nanostructure fabrication, and device engineering to address the challenges of carriers transport, light harvesting and emission in optoelectronic devices including solar cells, photodetectors, light emitting diodes, as well as photocatalysts. Currently his group work on tin perovskite solar cells and light emitting diodes, quantum dot infrared photodetectors. Zhijun Ning is selected as Highly cited researcher of Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science. He serves as Advisory Board Member of Cell Report Physical Science; Early Career Advisory Board Member of ACS Materials Letters; Young Editor of Science Bulletin; Young Editor of Science China Chemistry. He has published over 100 papers including Nature, Nat. Electronics, Nat. Materials, and the citation number is over 10000.
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"True Particle-size Dependence of Photocatalytic Activity of Octahedral-shaped Anatase Titania"
Prof. Bunsho Ohtani
(Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
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The research work on photocatalysis by Professor Ohtani started in 1981 when he was a Ph. D. course student in Kyoto University. Since then he has been studying photocatalysis and related topics for more than 30 years and published more than 300 original papers (h-index: 71) and two single-author books. After gaining his Ph. D. degree from Kyoto University in 1985, he became an assistant professor in the university. In 1996, he was promoted to an associate professor in Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University and was then awarded a full professor position in the Catalysis Research Center (presently Institute for Catalysis), Hokkaido University in 1998. For the education of graduate students, Professor Ohtani's laboratory has belonged to the Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University since 1999. He was awarded 2005 Scientific Achievement Award of The Electrochemical Society of Japan, The Japanese Photochemistry Association Award 2006, Catalysis Society of Japan Award for 2013, The Japanese Photochemistry Association Lectureship Award (2017) and The Award of The Electrochemical Society of Japan (Takei Award), 2018.
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"Light Harvesting with Surface Engineered Nanoparticles"
Dr. Pramod P. Pillai
(IISER Pune, India)
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Dr. Pramod Pillai is an Associate Professor and a Physical Chemist in the Department of Chemistry at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India. Dr. Pillai obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. K. George Thomas at National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) Trivandrum, India. Prior to joining IISER Pune in June 2014, Dr. Pillai was a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Bartosz A. Grzybowski at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA (2011-2014), and an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral Fellow at Technische Universität in Dortmund, Germany with Prof. Christof M. Niemeyer (2008-2010). Currently Dr. Pillai’s research at IISER Pune is focused on controlling the interplay of forces to improve and impart newer properties at the nanoscale. Some of the properties of interest includes light harvesting, catalysis and self-assembly in hybrid nanomaterials.
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"Solar-Driven Photoelectrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction in Water Utilizing a Metal Complex Catalyst on Semiconductor with a Heterojunction"
Dr. Keita Sekizawa
(Toyota Central R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan)
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Dr. Keita Sekizawa is a Researcher in Toyota Central R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan. He received his bachelor's degree in Science in 2008 at Tokyo Metropolitan University and doctoral in Science in 2013 under Professor Osamu Ishitani at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. After he spent two months as a postdoctoral fellow at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, he joined Toyota Central R&D Laboratories as a visiting researcher in the research group of Dr. Takeshi Morikawa and then became a permanent researcher in 2016. His research targets focus on photochemical, electrochemical, and photoelectrochemical CO2 conversion by utilizing metal complexes, semiconductors, and their hybrid materials.
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"Development of Hematite Mesocrystal-based Photoanodes for Solar Fuel Production"
Prof. Takashi Tachikawa
(Kobe Univ., Japan)
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Takashi Tachikawa received his Ph.D. from Tohoku University in 2003. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow and an assistant professor at SANKEN, Osaka University until 2014. He is currently an associate professor at Kobe University. He was also a researcher of the PRESTO (JST) program from 2013 to 2017. His scientific interests include photofunctional materials and single-molecule, single-particle spectroscopy.
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"Nano-structure Controlled Nanosheet-dye Complexes and their Utilization for Photochemical Reactions"
Prof. Shinsuke Takagi
(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan)
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Prof. Shinsuke Takagi received his Ph.D. from Tokyo Metropolitan University. He was awarded the Japanese Photochemistry Association Award in 2015 and the Clay Society of Japan Award in 2018. He is serving as the executive directors in the Japanese photochemistry association and the editorial board of Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C and Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology. His research interests include the photochemical properties and reactions of dyes such as "Surface-fixation induced emission" in chemical reaction microenvironments provided by micelles, reversed micelles, vesicles, zeolites, and clay minerals.
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"Efficient and Stable Monolithic All-perovskite Tandem Solar Cells"
Prof. Hairen Tan
(Nanjing Univ., China)
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Dr. Hairen Tan is a full professor in College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Nanjing University (NJU) since 2018. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Central South University and Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in 2015 from Delft University of Technology. After graduation he was awarded the Rubicon Fellowship from NWO and joined Ted Sargent's group at University of Toronto as a postdoctoral fellow during 2015-2018. His research focuses on developing high-efficiency and cost-effective photovoltaics devices, including perovskite solar cells, silicon solar cells, and perovskite-based tandem solar cells. His works have been published in Science, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Progress in Photovoltaics, with total citation over 8000 times. Dr. Tan serves as the Editorial Board Member of Communications Materials, Science China Materials, Journal of Semiconductors, and guest editor of Nanophotonics and Applied Physics Letters.
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"Studying Nanomorphology and Stacking of Conjugated Polymers with Innovative Optical Techniques"
Dr. Juen-Kai Wang
(Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Sinca, Taiwan)
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Dr. Wang obtained his Bachelor of Engineering from Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University in 1983 and received his Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Physics
from Harvard University in 1992. He then went to California Institute of Technology for postdoctoral research. Dr. Wang joined Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan
University in 1994 and was jointly appointed by Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences,
Academia Sinica in 2003. Dr. Wang’s main research direction is to develop innovative optical
spectroscopy to tackle challenging scientific issues. His current research interests are
surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and its applications, nanometer-scale optical
spectroscopy, plasmonics, steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopy of photovoltaics,
biomedical vibrational spectroscopy, optical spectroscopy applications in environmental
monitoring, strong light-matter interaction, and surface vibrational spectroscopy.
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"Ultrafast Time-resolved Spectroscopic Study of Zinc Oxide Based Photocatalysts"
Prof. Yuxiang Weng
(Chinese Academy of Sci., China)
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Dr. Yuxiang Weng, Professor, Director of Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics,Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He graduated from the Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University (Shanghai) in 1985 and got a master degree in physical chemistry from the same department in 1988, then obtained a Ph.D. degree in laser physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy o Sciences in 1993. He continued his research career as a postdoctor in Prof. C.M. Che’s group in the Department of Chemistry, The university of Hong Kong (1994-1997), and in Prof. Tim Lian’s group in the Chemistry Department, Emory University (USA, 1997-1999). After that, he joined the Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, CAS as an associate professor (1999-2000), then as a full professor in 2000. His research interest is to develop ultrafast spectroscopic methods to investigate the energy and electron transfer processes in natural and artificial photosynthetic systems, photo-generated carrier and phonon-coupled plarons in photocatalytic semiconductors. Constructing temperature-jump ns time-resolved IR spectroscopy to study the protein dynamical structures at amide I spectral region. Using two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy to elucidate the multi-vibrational wavepacket during electronic excitation, and vibration-assisted coherent energy transfer in photosynthetic process. Group website: http://softmatter.iphy.ac.cn/sm6
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"Photocatalytic Whole Water Splitting using Pt/GaP-p-C3N4 Nanocomposite under Visible Light Irradiation"
Prof. Jeffrey Chi-Sheng Wu
(Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
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Jeffrey C. S. Wu is a distinguished professor and former chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department, National Taiwan University. He received his PhD. degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Professor Jeffrey C.S. Wu, has long-term research activity in the solar energy conversion. The research funding of his lab has been continuously supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan for past 20 years. He is author and co-author of over 140 SCI journal papers, one book chapter and two textbooks of Chemical Industry and Catalysis. His research interest is photocatalysis include (a) photoreduction of CO2 to fuel, (b) photocatalytic water splitting for H2 and (c) photocatalytic oxidation of air pollutants. (d) Biomass conversion of biodiesel and bioethanol. He has received a number of awards including, Outstanding paper of Taiwan Catalysis Society in 2020, Yang Bing Yan Chair Professor of NTU Engineering College in 2018, Outstanding Engineering Professors Award of Chinese Institute of Engineers Taiwan in 2016; Outstanding Cross-Sector Collaboration Award of 2nd National Industrial Innovation in 2012; "Lai Tzai-Der award" of Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2009, "Chemical Technology Award" of Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2006, and "Silver medal of National Invention", Taiwan in 2004. He also serves as an Editor of the Catalysis Communications, a member of editorial boards of Research on Chemical Intermediates. His H-index is 48 with total citation 7294 (July 2021).
Selective Publications
- 1. H. V. Dang, Y. H. Wang, J. C.S. Wu, Z-scheme photocatalyst Pt/GaP-TiO2-SiO2:Rh for the separated H2 evolution from photocatalytic seawater splitting, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 296 (2021) 120339
- 2. J. Q. Su, Y.-C. Chang, J. C.S. Wu, Visible-Light Photocatalyst to Remove Indoor Ozone under Ambient Condition Catalysts, Catalysts 11 (2021) 383
- 3. Y.-T. Lin, Y.-H. Wang, J. C.S. Wu, Xuxu Wang, Photo-Fenton enhanced twin-reactor for simultaneously hydrogen separation and organic wastewater degradation, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 281 (2021) 119517
- 4. C.-W. Huang, C.-H. Liao, J. C.-S. Wu, Hygroscopic MgO on the Dual-Layer Photoelectrode Prepared by RF Magnetron Sputtering for Photocatalytic Water Splitting, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 37(8) (2020) 1352-1359
- 5. Y. Wang, X. Shang, J. Shen, Z. Zhang, D. Wang, J. Lin, J. C. S. Wu, X. Fu, X. Wang, C. Li, Direct and indirect Z-scheme heterostructure coupled photosystem enabling cooperation of CO2 reduction and H2O oxidation, Nature Communications, 11 (2020) 3043
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"Polymer Photocatalysts for Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting"
Prof. Hangxun Xu
(Univ. of Sci. and Tech. of China, China)
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Hangxun Xu received his B.S. degree (summa cum laude) in Polymer Chemistry in 2006 from the University of Science and Technology of China and his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry in 2011 from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Advisor: Prof. Kenneth S. Suslick). Thereafter, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. John A. Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Department of Materials Science Engineering & Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory). In 2013, he joined the department of polymer science and engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China. Now he serves as the department head of the department. In 2018, he received the Chinese Chemical Society Award for Outstanding Young Chemists.
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"Behavior of Photocarriers for the Remarkable Water Splitting Photocatalysts"
Prof. Akira Yamakata
(Toyota Technological Inst., Japan)
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Akira Yamakata is Associate Professor in Toyota Technological Institute. He received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1999, and joined as a postdoctoral researcher in Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology (KAST). In 2003, he moved to Catalyst Research Center of Hokkaido University as an Assistant Professor. In 2010, he promoted to Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering of Toyota Technological Institute as an. In 2011, he also became PRESTO Researcher of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). He is the recipient of Research Award from the Surface Science Society of Japan (2004), the Spectroscopical Society of Japan (2009), and Hokkaido branch of Chemical Society of Japan (2010), Nagai Academic Foundation (2015), International Congress on Pure & Applied Chemistry (2018), and The Japanese Photochemistry Association (2020). He has developed original spectrometers and elucidated many elementary steps in photocatalytic reactions. He believes that the elucidation of reaction mechanism provides rich information for the development of highly efficient catalysts.
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"Control of charge transfer at the solid/liquid interface for photoelectrochemical water oxidation"
Prof. Kan Zhang
(Nanjing Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China)
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Kan Zhang is currently a professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea, in 2015, and was postdoc fellow inYonsei University from 2015-2018. His research interests involve surface and interface engineering of photoelectrode, photoelectrochemical conversion mechanism exploration etc. He has published more than 80 papers on Nature Commun., J. Am Chem. Soc.,Energy Environ. Sci., ACS Energy Lett. etc. with more than 4000 citations.
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"Crystal Facet Engineering of Tungsten Oxide Film for Enhancing Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting"
Prof. Jinyou Zheng
(Zhengzhou Univ., China)
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Jin You Zheng is a Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University in China. He received his Master and PhD degree in Chemistry from Sogang University in Korea between 2010-2018. His current research interest focuses on the fabrication of electro-/photo-catalysts for environmental and energy applications such as electrochemical, photochemical, photoelectrochemical water splitting and CO2 reduction, pollutants degradation and so on.
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"Utilization of Carbon Source: Light-driving Photoconersion of CO2 into Solar Fuel"
Prof. Yong Zhou
(Nanjing Univ., China)
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Yong Zhou studied chemistry and physics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), received his Ph.D. degree there in 2000. After working in Kyoto University in 2000-01, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in 2002-03, the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) in 2003-04, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan) in 2004-08, and National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2008-09, he joined as a full professor in the Eco-materials and Renewable Energy Research Center (ERERC), School of Physics, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, China. His research now focuses on design and fabrication of solar-light driven clean energy materials for photocatalysis and flexible solar cells.
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