讲座题目：Integrative Catalytic Pairs – the Smallest Catalytic Units to Drive Complex Chemical Reactions

主讲嘉宾：刘彬教授

讲座时间：2025年5月17日（周六）上午10:30—11:30

讲座地点：工学四号馆202会议室

讲座人简介：

 Bin Liu received his bachelor of engineering (1st Class Honours) and master of engineering degrees at the National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and completed his doctoral degree at the University of Minnesota, USA in 2011. After spending a year as postdoctoral fellow in the University of California Berkeley, USA, he joined School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University as an Assistant Professor in June 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor in March 2017. In February 2023, Professor Liu joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at City University of Hong Kong as a Global STEM Professor. His research focuses on photo(electro)catalysis and in-situ/operando characterization. Professor Liu was awarded emerging investigator by Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry in 2016, class of influential researchers by Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, American Chemical Society in 2018, and listed in the “Highly Cited Researchers” in Cross-Field in 2019 and Chemistry in 2020-2024 by Clarivate Analytics.

报告摘要：

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) refer to catalysts with a single type of reactive atoms anchored on a host support through various interactions, which have garnered significant research attention due to their combined advantages of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts, including close to 100% atom utilization efficiency, well-defined structure, and high catalytic activity/selectivity. However, the homogeneity of isolated active sites in SACs may limit their applications in complex chemical reactions that involve multiple reaction intermediates. To address the challenge of a single type of active sites in SACs, we have proposed another novel type of catalysts, which compose of integrative catalytic pairs (ICPs), featuring adjacent binary active centers that exhibit synergistic catalytic effects in addition to their mutual regulation of electronic structure, offering the smallest catalytic units to drive complex chemical reactions.