We are delighted to welcome you to participate in the 2nd Graduate Symposium on Chemistry and Materials Science at USTC in Hefei, Anhui, 26-27 November 2016.
The purpose of the Graduate Symposium is to share our experiences and knowledge in regard to the theory, frontier developments and researches on chemistry and materials science, as well as possible applications of them in solving practical problems. A lot of current issues have been discussed, and some of them have been effectively solved.
Weixue Li Professor, Department of Chemical Physics, USTC.
Award/Honor:
▶ CAS Hundred Talent Program (2004)
▶ Distinguished Young Scientist of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2012)
Title Activity and Stability of Supported Nano Catalysts from First-Principles
Research Interest: Theoretical and Computational Catalysis.
With rapid expansion of massive supercomputer centers, accurate algorithm based on first-principles theory integrated further with multiscale approach available, theoretical and computational design of nanomaterials with desired properties become possible for the first time. Professor Weixue Li has been engaged in this research area for about 20 years, particularly relative to fundamental understanding of catalytic reactions on a variety of materials at nanoscale. He developed the general theory for describing the sintering kinetics and disintegration of supported nanoparticles under realistic conditions, and explored deeply the influence of interface and crystal phase of nanocatalysts on catalytic reactionssuch as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, CO oxidation.
Up till now, Prof. Weixue Li has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. Among those 18 papers have been published in the high impact journals, including 1 paper in Science, 5 papers in J. Am. Chem. Soc., 3 papers in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 6 papers in Phys. Rev. Lett., 1 paper in PNAS, Nano Lett.
Genqiang Zhang
Professor, Department of MaterialsScience and Engineering, USTC.
Award/Honor:
▶ Thousand Youth Talents Plan（2016）
Title Mixed Transition Metal Oxide Micro-/Nano-structures: Controlled Synthesis and Energy Related Applications
Research Interests Aiming to build high performance energy storage and conversion devices.
our research group will try to explore the environmental friendly, mild, cost-effective and scalable chemical synthesis methods to manipulate the size, morphology and structure controllable synthesis of unique micro-/nano-structures for functional materials focusing on multi-component transition metal compounds and their complex hybrid nanostructures, as well as the transition metal compounds/nanocarbon hybrid structures.
Till now, Dr. Zhang has published 42 scientific papers in high profile journals including Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Nano Lett., etc. with total citations more than 3000 times and H-index factor of 29. In May of 2016, Dr. Zhang joined Department of Materials Science and Engineering in USTC with support of “Thousand Youth Talent Plan” and launched independent research group focusing on energy nanomaterials (website: http://zhanglab.ustc.edu.cn/)
Cheng Ma
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, USTC.
Award/Honor:
▶ Thousand Youth Talents Plan（2016）
▶ Sigma Xi, Full Membership (2013)
▶ Zaffarano Prize for Graduate Student Research - Honorable Mention (2013)
▶ Graduate Student Research Excellence Award, Iowa State University (2012)
▶ Rohit Trivedi Best Student Paper Award, Iowa State University (2011)
Title A Solid Future of Energy Storage: Novel Solid Electrolytes for Next-Generation Li Batteries
Research Interest:
1.Structure-property relationship of materials in critical energy technologies, including:
¨Energy-storage devices beyond Li-ion batteries.and Piezoelectric energy harvesting.
2. Inorganic materials synthesis.
3.Advanced transmission electron microscopy (TEM):
Aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM).and In-situ (S)TEM techniques.