Title: In situ/Operando Electrochemical Spectroscopies for Studying Electrocatalysis and Batteries: from IR to NMR to Scanning Probe Microscopy
Lecturer：Prof. Yuye Tong,
Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University
Time：9:30a.m., March 8th, 2019 (Friday)
Place：Room 210 West, Chemistry Building
About the Lecturer
Professor Tong obtained his BS and MS in nuclear physics at Fudan University in Shanghai in 1983 and 1986 respectively and PhD in experimental condensed matter physics from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in 1994. He then worked as a visiting staff scientist at the Institute of Catalysis, French National Research Center, in Lyon for two years before moving to USA. After 4-year’s post-doctoral research with Professor Andrzej Wieckowski and Eric Oldfield at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he joined the department of chemistry, Georgetown University in Washington DC in 2001 and rose through the ranks to full professor in 2010. His current research focuses on mechanistic investigations of electro-oxidation reactions of small organic molecules and oxygen reduction reaction on Pt-based electrocatalysts, on unraveling metal-chalcogenolate interfacial chemistry in alkylchalcogenolate-stabilized metal nanoparticles/clusters and its ramifications on charge transport in the associated nanoparticle/cluster assemblies, and on Li-ion battery chemistry by in situ/operando spectroelectrochemical methods (NMR/IR/Raman) and ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations. He has published more than 115 peer-reviewed papers and has been frequently invited to sit on the program and national lab review panels by US department of Energy and National Science Foundation and by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. He was the chair of the chemistry department from 2010 through 2017 and currently is the founding director of the Environmental Metrology and Policy Program at Georgetown University which is a joint endeavor by Georgetown University, US National Institute of Standards and Technology, and US Environmental Protection Agency.
