Strain controlled energy materials
With speaker Shaojun Guo, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering with a joint appointment at Department of Energy and Resources Engineering, at College of Engineering, Peking University.
Abstract
Electrocatalysis is crucial for the development of clean and renewable energy technologies, which can potentially reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Tuning or controlling the surface strain in multimetallic nanomaterials is a robust method to boost electrocatalytic performance, and tremendous progress has been made in this area in the past decade. In this talk, I will show recent important advances in how to tune the compressive or tensile strain in multimetallic nanocrystals to achieve more efficient energy conversion by electrocatalysis.
About the speaker
Shaojun Guo is currently a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering with a joint appointment at Department of Energy&Resources Engineering, at College of Engineering, Peking University. He received his BSc in chemistry from Jilin University (2005), Ph. D in analytical chemistry from Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010), worked as a postdoctoral research associate from Jan. 2011 to Jun. 2013 at Brown University and as a very prestigious J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, he was selected by Thomson Reuters into their prestigious list of World Most Highly Cited Researchers. He has published more than 200 papers (~100 papers with IF>10) in Top Journals like Science, Nature Reviews Materials, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Chem, JACS, Advanced Materials, Angew Chem., Chem. Soc. Rev., etc. with ~ 20000 citations (H-index: 75). His research interests are in engineering nanocrystals and 2D materials for catalysis, renewable energy, sensors and therapy.