Speaker: Li Xiaomin (Professor, Fudan University)
Time: 10:00 – 12:00 a.m., Thursday, 23 October 2025
Venue: Room 202 of the Shaw Engineering Building
Organizer: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Speaker Biography :
Prof. Li Xiaomin received his Ph.D. from Fudan University in 2014 and is now a full professor in the Department of Chemistry, Fudan University. He has been principal investigator of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (formerly the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation) and was selected as a Shanghai Rising-Star Top-Notch Talent. He won the First Prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award, the First Prize of Science & Technology of the Chinese Rare Earth Society, and the Rising Star Award of the Sino-American Nano-Medicine and Nanotechnology Society.
His research focuses on the designed synthesis of porous nanocomposites and their nano-bio interactions. He has published >130 SCI papers, including 2 Nat. Chem., Nat. Synth., Nat. Rev. Mater., PNAS, 12 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 7 Nat. Commun., 8 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Sci. Adv., Chem, Adv. Mater. as first/corresponding author, with >13 000 citations in total.
Abstract :
Mesoporous materials are a class of porous materials with pore sizes ranging from 2 to 50 nm, renowned for their high specific surface area, large pore volume, adjustable pore size, ordered pore channels, and unique confinement effect. As a crucial type of fundamental material, they exhibit broad application prospects in fields such as energy, catalysis, and drug delivery.
The controlled synthesis of mesoporous nanomaterials has mainly focused on silica and polymer/carbon materials. However, these materials have single components and limited functions, making it difficult to meet the multi-functional requirements in complex application scenarios. There is an urgent need to develop new types of functional mesoporous nanocomposites and expand their framework components and composite structures.
This report will focus on the challenges of matching and regulating the micelle assembly kinetics, framework formation, and interface assembly kinetics in the synthesis of mesoporous materials. It will highlight a series of new micelle self-assembly and interface assembly regulation methods developed by the research group, as well as the new mesoporous nanocomposites prepared through these methods—including rare earth-based mesoporous nanocomposites, single-crystal mesoporous organic-inorganic hybrid materials, and a new family of asymmetric mesoporous nanocomposites.
The controlled synthesis of these materials has greatly expanded the framework components and composite structures of mesoporous nanocomposites, thereby achieving efficient integration and synergy between various functional units and enhancing the performance of mesoporous nanocomposites in disease diagnosis and treatment applications.
