Speaker：Pro. Zhaomin Hou, RIKEN

Title: New Catalysts, New Reactions and New Functional Materials

Invited by Prof. Haobing WANG

Time：September 26, 2022 (9:45 am)

Venue: Lecture Room 324, AISMST (Building #2, KeJiYuan, North Campus)

Faculties and students are warmly welcome.

Abstract:

In this seminar, I would like to talk about our recent studies on the development of new catalysts, new reactions and new functional materials, including C-H activation and transformation by rare-earth catalysts, dinitrogen activation and functionalization by titanium hydride clusters, and the synthesis of self-healing polymers by catalyst-controlled microstructure regulation.

Brief Biography：

Zhaomin Hou was born in 1961 in Shandong Province, China. He graduated from China University of Petroleum in 1982 and received his Ph.D. from Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) in 1989. After postdoctoral studies at RIKEN (Saitama, Japan) and the University of Windsor (Canada), he joined RIKEN as a Research Scientist in 1993, where he is now the Director of Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and the Group Director of Advanced Catalysis Research Group and a Deputy Center Director of the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science. He has been serving as an Executive Editor for Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) since 2021. He received the JSPS Prize (2007), the Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award (2007), the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2007), the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (2008), the Rare-Earth Society of Japan Award (2009), the Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2012), the Chinese Chemical Society Yaozeng Huang Award in Organometallic Chemistry (2014), the Nagoya Silver Medal (2016), the Chemical Society of Japan Award (2019), and the Japan Academy Prize (2022). His current research interests are focused on the development of new catalysts, new reactions, and new functional materials, including asymmetric C-H functionalization, small molecule activation and transformation, and olefin-based self-healing polymers.