报告时间：2018年7月29日（星期日）16:30-17:00

报告地点：校学术会议中心第三会议室

报告人：王连洲 教授

工作单位：澳大利亚昆士兰大学(The University of Queensland)

举办单位：化学与化工学院，材料科学与工程学院，先进能源与环境材料国际科技合作基地，有色金属与加工技术国家地方联合工程研究中心，先进功能材料与器件安徽省重点实验室

报告人简介：

王连洲，现为澳大利亚昆士兰大学化工学院终身教授，纳米材料研究中心主任，澳洲基金委未来学者。主要从事半导体纳米材料的合成及其在清洁能源领域的应用。先后在诸多国际期刊发表论文330多篇，专著章节12部，申请专利12项，作国际会议大会或邀请学术报告100余次，论文被引用14,000余次。近年作为主要负责人先后承担或参与了澳大利亚基金委、澳洲科学院、澳洲协调创新中心以及工业界等40余项竞争性研究项目，总金额超过2500 万澳元。先后获得澳洲基金委女王伊丽莎白学者称号，昆士兰大学研究优秀奖，澳洲寻找未来之星奖，澳洲基金委未来学者称号，入选澳洲基金委工程技术领域专家委员会（College of Experts）和英国皇家化学会会士。

报告简介：

Semiconducting materials hold the key for efficient photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting. In this talk, we will give a brief overview of our recent progresses in designing semiconductor metal oxides materials for photoelectrochemical energy conversion including photocatalytic solar fuel generation. In more details, we have been focusing the following a few aspects; 1) band-gap engineering of layered semiconductor compounds including layered titanate, tantalate and niobate-based metal oxide compounds for visible light phtocatalysis, and 2) two-dimensional nanosheets/nanoplates of TiO2, Fe2O3, WO3, BiVO4 as building blocks for new photoelectrode design，and 3) the combination of a high performance photoelectrode BiVO4 with perovskite solar cells can lead to unassisted solar driven water splitting process with solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of >6.5%. The resultant material systems exhibited efficient visible light photocatalytic performance and improved power conversion efficiency in solar energy, which underpin important solar-energy conversion applications including solar fuel generation and simultaneous  environmental application.