Speaker: Prof.QIAO Shizhang, The University of Adelaide
Time：Monday,15:00p.m.,21st October
Place：A718
Sponsor：Prof. ZHANG Kai & Prof. WANG Qiangbin

Abstact：
In this Replacement of precious metal catalysts by commercially available alternatives is of great importance among both fundamental and practical catalysis research. Nanostructured carbon-based and transition metal materials have demonstrated promising catalytic properties in a wide range of energy generation/storage applications. Specifically engineering carbon with guest metals/metal-free atoms can improve its catalytic activity for electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), thus can be considered as potential substitutes for the expensive Pt/C or IrO2 catalysts in metal-air batteries and water splitting process. In this presentation, I will talk about the synthesis of nonprecious metal and metal free elements-doped graphene, and their application on electrocatalysis [1-6]. The excellent OER and HER performance (high catalytic activity and efficiency) and reliable stability indicate that new materials are promising highly efficient electrocatalysts for clean energy conversion. I will also present some research results of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction eraction (CRR) and N2 reduction reaction (NRR) conducted in my research group [7-10].

Biography:
Dr. Shi-Zhang Qiao is currently a professor (Chair of Nanotechnology) at School of Chemical Engineering of the University of Adelaide. His research expertise is in nanostructured materials for new energy technologies including electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, fuel cell, supercapacitor and batteries. He has co-authored more than 390 papers in refereed journals (over 53,500 citations with h-index 120). He has filed several patents and has attracted more than 12.0 million dollars in research grants from industrial partners and Australian Research Council (ARC).
Prof. Qiao was honoured with a prestigious ARC Australian Laureate Fellow (2017), ExxonMobil Award (2016), ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA, 2013) and an Emerging Researcher Award (2013, ENFL Division of the American Chemical Society). He has also been awarded an ARC ARF Fellowship and an ARC APD Fellowship.
Prof. Qiao is a Fellow of Institution of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE), a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Fellow of Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI). He is currently an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and is a Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (Chemistry, Materials Science).

References:
[1] H. Jin, S.Z. Qiao et al., Chem. Rev. 2018, 118(13), 6337-6408.
[2]X.S. Wang, Qiao et al., Nature Communications 2019, accepted 
[3] J. Shan, S.Z., Qiao et al., Advanced Materials 2019, 31, 1900510. 
[4] T. Ling, S.Z. Qiao et al., Advanced Materials 2019, 31, 1807771.
[5] Y.Q. Zhao, S.Z. Qiao et al., Angew Chem Int Ed 2019, 58, 12252.
[6] J. Shan, S.Z., Qiao et al., Chem, 2019, 5, 445-459.
[7] H. Jin, S.Z. Qiao et al., Advanced Materials 2019, 31, 1902709.
[8] Y. Zheng, S.Z. Qiao et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 7646.
[9] Y. Jiao, S.Z. Qiao et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 18093.
[10] A. Vasileff, S.Z. Qiao et al., Chem, 2018, 4, 1809-1831.