报告题目：Soft Templating Strategies towards Novel Inorganic Materials for the Energy Sector

报告人：Geoffrey Waterhouse (University of Auckland)

邀请人：王林格 教授

报告时间：2018年5月7日（周一）上午10:00

报告地点：软物质研究院324报告厅（北区科技园2号楼） 

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报告内容简介：

The fabrication of inorganic materials with well-defined morphologies, porosities or architectures underpins frontier research in optical sensing, catalysis, solar energy capture and energy storage. This talk will review different strategies we have recently explored towards novel 2D and 3D inorganic materials using soft-templating approaches or precursors based on organic–inorganic hybrids. Particular emphasis will be given here to the role of organic surfactants and their supramolecular assemblies as structure-directing agents (SDAs) in the bottom-up synthesis of complex inorganic materials, including 2D layered double hydroxide nanosheets, metal-semiconductor nanoparticle dimers and their nanoclusters, and reverse bumpy ball nanoreactors. The potential of natural biomolecules and polymer colloidal crystals as SDAs is also explored. I will seek to demonstrate the versatility of soft template approaches for the synthesis of high performance inorganic nanomaterials for energy applications, including photocatalysis (alcohol photoreforming, CO₂ reduction, N₂ fixation), electrocatalytic water splitting, and rechargeable battery systems.

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.