Professor Sun Yugang and Professor Michael J. Zdilla of Temple University were invited to visit School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering for academic exchanges and co-operations from May 22nd to 24th, 2017. On the afternoon of May 23rd, Professor Sun Yugang and Professor Michael J. Zdilla delivered lectures entitled “Hot-Carrier Generation in Quantum-Sized Pt Nanocrystals” and “Turning a cheap, poor catalyst into a cheap, active catalyst” respectively, optimizing layered MnO-based materials for water oxidation using experiment and theory”. Faculty members including Prof. Fu Zhiyong, Prof. Liang Zhenxing, Prof. Song Huiyu and over 50 graduate students attended the lectures. Finally, the two professors shared and exchanged ideas with teachers and students on their research.
The academic conference expanded the knowledge of students and international perspective, inspiring the enthusiasm of graduate students, strengthening the international cooperation and exchanges with foreign universities at the same time.

About the Speakers:
Prof. Sun Yugang received bachelor's and doctoral degrees from China University of Science and Technology in 1996 and 2001; 2001-2006: University of Washington, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Postdoctoral research; 2006-2015: Argonne National Laboratory Nano Materials Center; 2016~ Temple University, Professor Sun Yugang has long been engaged in the nanomaterials and their application in optics, catalysis, sensing, energy storage / conversion. He has published more than 160 papers in Science, Nat Nanotech, JACS, Angew Chem, AM, Chem Rev and other journals, was cited more than 30,000 times, and the h-index is 58.

Pro. Michael J. Zdilla received his bachelor's degree in Millersville University in 2000, his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 2005, and his postdoctoral research at Purdue University in 2005-2009. He joined Temple University in 2009 and became an associate professor since 2015. Research interests include: synthetic bionic metal nanoclusters, energy materials, catalytic active ligand design, water oxidation layered materials, nanomaterials, small molecule activated ligand design. So far published more than 60 articles such as JACS, Angew Chem, ACS Catal, JPC Lett and other periodicals. Won the ACS POLYED Polymer Education Award in 1999, won the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator in 2013.