5月7日，新西兰奥克兰大学Geoffrey Waterhouse教授来院作题为“Soft Templating Strategies towards Novel Inorganic Materials for the Energy Sector”的学术讲座。本次讲座是研究院2018年“软物质学术交流”系列活动的第二场。

新西兰奥克兰大学Geoffrey Waterhouse教授来院分享高分子类软模板制备能源用无机材料最新研究

　　本次讲座Geoffrey Waterhouse教授回顾了最近使用的软模板方法或基于有机-无机杂化制备新型的2D和3D无机多孔材料的不同策略。特别强调有机表面活性剂及其超分子组装体作为结构导向剂（SDAS）在复杂无机材料自下而上合成中的作用，包括2D层状氢氧化物纳米片、金属半导体纳米粒子二聚体和它们的纳米团簇和反曲多面球状纳米反应器。同时，探讨了天然生物分子和聚合物胶体晶体作为SDAS的潜力，以及这类无机材料在光学传感、催化、太阳能存储等领域的潜在应用。

学术报告现场图

　　讲座上，Geoffrey Waterhouse教授尝试演示软模板方法用于合成高性能无机纳米材料的多功能性，包括光催化（醇光催化还原、CO2还原、N2固定）、电催化水分解和可再充电电池系统。（图文／华南软物质科学与技术高等研究院）

　　附报告人简介：

Professor Geoffrey Waterhouse is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry and a Principal Investigator in the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology (a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence). He is also a Chair Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the South China University of Technology, Chair Professor in the College of Chemistry and Material Science at Shandong Agricultural University, and Guest Professor in the Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). In 2016, he was awarded the CAS International Partnership Award for Young Scientists. His research expertise includes nanomaterials synthesis, optical sensor development, semiconductor photocatalysis and the development of stimuli-responsive drug delivery platforms. He has published 120 SCI journal articles (mean impact factor > 7) in the past 7 years, including high impact factor journal publications in Nature Chemistry, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Science, JACS, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ACS Nano, Journal of Catalysis, ChemSusChem, Applied Catalysis B:Environmental, Chemical Communications and Scientific Reports. His journal articles have been cited more than 4000 times, and he has a h-index of 36 (Source: Scopus). Geoff is one of New Zealand’s foremost users of synchrotron techniques, and he holds a number of elected positions in the Australasian synchrotron science community.