Prof. Rösch from TUM Germany and ASTAR Singapore visited us today and gave an IREC2 lecture with the title “Reduced Centers of the MoVOx Catalyst for Hydrocarbon Oxidation. To Localize or not to Localize, That […]
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Invited talk at the 17th National Youth Conference on Catalysis
Prof. Zhao gave an invited talk presentation at the 17th National Youth Conference on Catalysis. The title of the talk is “Development of Propane Dehydrogenation Single Atom Alloy Catalysts”.
Continue readingInvited talk at the 2nd International Symposium on Single-Atom Catalysis
Prof. Zhao gave an invited talk presentation at the 2nd International Symposium on Single-Atom Catalysis. The title of the talk is “Crucial Role of Surface Hydroxyl on the Selectivity and Activity of CO2RR over Cu2O”.
Continue readingOur recent AIChE J article was one of the top downloaded articles in recent publication history
Our article An experimental and theoretical study of glycerol oxidation to 1,3-dihydroxyacetone over bimetallic Pt-Bi catalysts, published in AIChE Journal, was one of the journal’s top 20 most downloaded recent papers!* As of year-end 2017 our article […]
Continue readingInvited talk at the 5th Young Scholar’s Symposium on Coal Chemistry Industry
Prof. Zhao gave an invited talk presentation at the 5th Young Scholar’s Symposium on Coal Chemistry Industry. The title of the talk is “Computational Screening of Propane Dehydrogentation Catalyst and its Experimental Synthesis”.
Continue readingAngew Chem: The Functionality of Surface Hydroxyls on CO2 Reduction over Cu2O in Aqueous Solutions
CO2 reduction in aqueous solutions is an attractive strategy for carbon capture and utilization. Cuprous oxide (Cu2O) is a promising catalyst for CO2 reduction as it can not only convert CO2 into valuable hydrocarbons but also suppress the […]
Continue readingOur recent publication is highlighted by Chemical & Engineering News (ACS) and Advanced Science News
One of our recent paper, “Hydroxyl-mediated Non-oxidative Propane Dehydrogenation over VOx/Al2O3 Catalysts with Promoted Stability“, is highlighted by Chemical & Engineering News (ACS) and Advanced Science News! Link to Chemical & Engineering News (ACS): Watching vanadium catalysts dehydrogenate propane […]
Continue readingInvited talk at the 8th National Physical Inorganic Chemistry Meeting
Prof. Zhao gave an invited talk presentation at the 8th National Physical Inorganic Chemistry Meeting. The title of the talk is “A combined theoretical and experimental study on the catalytic CO2 reduction by Cu2O”.
Continue readingChem Sci: Find the optimal PDH catalyst
The intrinsic errors due to functionals are always a concern on the reliability of the predicted catalytic performance by density functional theory. We show a probability-based computational screening study, which has successfully identified an optimal […]
Continue readingAngew Chem: Hydroxyl‐mediated Non‐oxidative Propane Dehydrogenation over VOx/Al2O3 Catalysts with Promoted Stability
Supported vanadium oxides are one of the most promising alternative catalysts for propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and massive efforts have been made to improve its catalytic performance. However, unlike Pt‐based catalysts, the nature of the active […]
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