学　术

　　“电子论坛”第14期邀请到美国休斯敦大学M. D. Anderson讲座教授Prof. Zhifeng Ren，与我校师生共同探讨纳米材料与器件研究的热点问题。具体安排如下，欢迎感兴趣的师生参加。

　　一、时　间：5月15日（周二）16:00

　　二、地　点：沙河校区逸夫楼521

　　三、主　题：High Performance Catalysts for Hydrogen & Oxygen Evolution Reactions and Water Splitting　　

　　四、主讲人：Prof.Zhifeng Ren（Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston）

　　五、内容简介：

　　Water splitting by electrolysis for hydrogen production is very important, but not economical due to high cost of the noble metal containing catalysts or low performance of the non noble metal based catalysts.Water splitting involves hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER).HER catalysts are normally good in acid and OER catalysts in base.We recently discovered some catalysts better than the noble metal containing ones in both acid and base,which made the overall water splitting more efficient than the noble metal containing catalysts.In this talk,I will present a few examples on our recent discovery on new catalysts to achieve water splitting for current density larger than 500 mA/cm2 at less than 1.7 V.

　　六、主讲人简介：

　　Prof.Zhifeng Ren is an M.D.Anderson Chair Professor in the Department of Physics and a principal investigator at the Center for Superconductivity of the University of Houston. He received Ph.D.Degree from the Institute of Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1990,M.S.degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1987,and B.S.degree from Xihua University in 1984.He is experienced in materials synthesis,physics,and applications,superconductor,carbon nanotubes,ZnO nanowires,thermoelectric materials,nano-bio materials and sensors,flexible transparent electrodes,electrochemical catalysis,etc.He has published 400 journal papers,including 7 publications in Science,Nature and 11 in Science,Nature series,with a total citation of about 30,000 and an H-index of 78 based on Web of science,been issued with 35 US patents. He is ranked at 49th of the materials scientists in the world.He received the 2008 R&D 100 Award and the 2014 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Science from The Academy of Medicine,Engineering & Science of Texas (TAMEST).He was an elected APS fellow in 2004 and AAAS in 2005,and fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2013.

　　七、主办单位：电子科学与工程学院

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  　电子科学与工程学院

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　2018年5月9日