报告人简介: Prof. Shi-Zhang Qiao received his PhD degree in chemical engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2000, and is currently a professor (Chair of Nanotechnology) at School of Chemical Engineering of the University of Adelaide, and an Honorary Professor at The University of Queensland, Australia. His research expertise is in nanomaterials and　nanoporous materials for drug/gene delivery and new energy technologies. He　has co-authored more than 200 papers in refereed journals (9000 citations　with h-index 48), including Nature, Nature Communications, J. Am. Chem. Soc,　Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., and has filed several patents on novel　nanomaterials that are promising for drug/gene delivery, fuel cells, photocatalysis, supercapacitors　and lithium ion battery.Prof. Qiao was honoured with a prestigious ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA,2013), a Emerging Researcher Award (2013, ENFL Division of the American Chemical Society) and a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award (2008). He has also been awarded an ARC ARF　Fellowship, an ARC APD Fellowship and an inaugural UQ Mid-Career Research Fellowship. Professor Qiao is currently an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry A and appointed to ARC College of Experts. 

　　报告摘要 : Replacement of precious metal catalysts by commercially available alternatives is of great importance among both fundamental and practical catalysis research. Nanostructured carbon and graphene-based materials demonstrated promising catalytic properties in a wide range of energy generation/storage applications. Specifically engineering graphene and porous carbon with guest atoms can improve their catalytic activity for electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR),oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), thus can be considered as potential substitutes for the noble catalysts in fuel cells, water splitting to produce hydrogen, or metal-air batteries etc. On such perspective, we have reported graphene-based and other carbonbased metal-free catalysts with a synergistic effect between heteroatoms to boost their electrocatalytic activity. Their electrocatalytic activity and efficiency are comparable with those obtained on the precious metal catalysts. The new catalysts also show excellent long-term stability.We will also introduce our other work on functional materials synthesis and their applications on electroctalytic energy conversion. 

　　报告二 

　　报告题目：Photons at Work 

　　报 告 人：Prof. Wybren Jan Buma 

　　单　　位：University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 

　　报告时间：2014年10月22日 (星期三)上午9:30 

　　报告地点：海洋之神8590vip长春应用化学研究所 教育大厦5039室 

    报告人简介：Prof. dr Wybren Jan Buma Wybren Jan Buma received in 1989 cum laude his PhD degree at Leiden University where he performed his PhD research in both Experimental Physics and Theoretical Chemistry under the supervision of Joan van der Waals and Jan Schmidt. His PhD thesis he was awarded the 1989 Shell Prize. In 1989 he received a fellowship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and joined the group of Bryan E. Kohler at the UC Riverside as a postdoc. In 1991 he was appointed to the faculty of the University of Amsterdam where he became professor by special appointment of the “John van Geuns Fonds” foundation in 2001. Since then he has held the regular chair in “Molecular Spectroscopy” at this university. His research group aims to advance the fundamental knowledge of the dynamics of excited states in molecules and nano-sized objects, and to contribute with its expertise to applications of the photosciences. He has been member and coordinator of various European Research Networks. In 2008 he was awarded the EU Descartes Prize for Transnational Research as member of the SynNanoMotors team. Wybren Jan Buma is since 2008 the scientific director of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry, a collaborative graduate school of the University of Amsterdam, the VU University Amsterdam, and Leiden University which has been accredited by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In 2011 he was appointed as Chairman of the “John van Geuns Fonds” foundation. He is member of the Senate of the University of Amsterdam and holds memberships of various chemical and physical societies such as the Dutch Chemical Society, the Dutch Physical Society, and the American Chemical Society.