Title：New mechanism for carbon dioxide hydrogenation catalysis
Lecturer：Professor Jie Zeng
Time：3:00 p.m. ,June 5th,2019(Wednesday)
Place：Room 210, Chemistry Building(West)
About the Lecturer：
Professor Jie Zeng, born in September in 1980 in Shangcheng, Henan Province. In 2002 and 2008, he obtained his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China under the academician Jianguo Hou. He did postdoctoral research at Washington University in St. Louis, USA from 2008 to 2011 under the American Chinese scientist Professor Younan Xia. From 2011 to 2012, He is a research assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Ever since 2012, he has been a professor and doctoral tutor at the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale. His research direction is carbon-catalyzed. Professor Jie Zeng is the chief scientist of the Youth 973 Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He was selected into the “Hundred Talents Program” of the Academy of Sciences, the “Thousands of Young People Program” of the Central Organization Department, and the “Technology Innovation Leadership” of the “Metal Plan” of the Central Organization Department. He won the first prize of Anhui Natural Science (ranked 1st), the Anhui Youth May Fourth Medal, China's new scientific and technological figures, and Hou Debang Chemical Science and Technology Youth Award. So far, Professor Jie Zeng has published 126 papers, which have been cited more than 8,800 times, with an H factor of 50. He also applies for 38 patents. He has published 3 books, including "Seeing the Micro-Knowledge" as the first translator, which won the "National Excellent Science Works Award".
About the Lecture：
Based on Hefei synchrotron radiation source, Professor Jie Zeng built a catalytic in situ characterization platform integrating SRPES, NEXAFS, DRIFTS, XPS, UPS and XAFS technology to reveal the evolution process of intermediates and catalysts in the catalytic reaction process under in-situ conditions. Based on the in-situ mechanism research, he proposed a catalyst design idea for constructing a symmetrically broken active central body to activate non-polar CO2 molecules.
Group website: http://catalysis.ustc.edu.cn/
