Title: Green Carbon-based Materials for Energy Conversion and Remediation of Water Contamination
Speaker: Prof.Shaobin Wang (Curtin University, Australia)
Time: 10:30a.m., Sep. 8th, 2017
Venue: Room 214, Building No. 16, Wushan Campus

Abstract:
The emerging nanocarbons such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, and nanodiamonds exhibit great merits for heterogeneous catalysis compared with metal- or metal oxide-based catalysts in aqueous solution without toxic ion-leaching and associated secondary contamination. In this talk, several different nanocarbonswill be demonstrated to be active materials as alternatives to metal-based catalysts in photocatalysis and advanced oxidation processes for wastewater treatment.

Brief introduction to Prof.Shaobin Wang:
Prof. Wang obtained BSc and MSc from Peking University and PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Queensland, Australia. He is now a Professor at Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Australia. His research interests focus on nanomaterial synthesis and application for adsorption and catalysis, fuel and energy conversion and environmental remediation. He has published more than 300 refereed journal papers and his paper citation was over 14000 with H-index=67. He was awarded 2012 Thomson Reuters Citation & Innovation Awards in Australia and is listed as one of The Most Cited Researchers in subjects of chemical engineering and environmental science and engineering by Elsevier and a highly cited researcher by SCI of Thomson Reuters. He is an editorial board member of several international journals.