报告题目：Nanoscale Architectures for Catalysis and Energy
报告人：刘景月（Jimmy）教授
报告时间：2012年12月17日（周一）14:00-16:00
报告地点：曹光彪大楼326会议室
邀请人：张 泽院士
报告摘要：
Powering our planet with a sustainable energy supply is not only critical to improving the quality of life but also is becoming essential to meeting the ever increasing demand of energy by a growing world population. Fossil fuels, the main energy sources that we depend on today, have negative impact on our environment and are limited in supply. It becomes imperative to develop new processes for effective use of energy, and to develop sustainable and clean energy sources. Catalysis, the essential technology for accelerating desired chemical transformations, plays an important role in developing environmentally friendly and economically feasible processes for producing energy carriers and for converting them into directly usable energy. Design and synthesis of controlled nanostructures and their proper assembly may provide us new routes to address some key issues encountered in understanding the fundamental processes and dynamics of catalyzed reactions. The recent development of single atom and cluster catalysis provides great opportunities for designing novel catalysts with improved performances. We have recently synthesized both nanostructured metal oxides and shape-controlled metal nanocrystals, and applied them to the systematic investigation of catalytic processes. Development of novel nanoarchitectures is expected to open new channels for energy harvest/storage and sensing. Applications of aberration-corrected electron microscopy techniques to the elucidation of the synthesis-structure-performance relationships of nanoscale architectures will be discussed.
刘景月教授简历：
Dr. Jingyue (Jimmy) Liu is a Professor of Physics, Senior Scholar in the Global Institute of Sustainability, and Director of the PSM-Nanoscience at Arizona State University. Dr. Liu received his bachelor's degree in metal physics (1982) from the University of Science and Technology Beijing and his Ph.D. (1990) in condensed matter physics from Arizona State University (ASU). After being a postdoctoral position for two years at ASU, Dr. Liu became a research scientist, funded by the Shell Development Company in Westhollow, Texas, in the Center for Solid State Science of ASU.
In 1994, Dr. Liu joined Monsanto Corporate Research in St. Louis, Missouri as a Research Specialist and group leader. After several promotions, Dr. Liu was appointed as a Corporate Science Fellow in 2000 for outstanding technical achievements. In 2004, Dr. Liu was appointed as Senior Science Fellow of Monsanto for sustained outstanding leadership and contributions to Monsanto's businesses. Among many awards that Dr. Liu received from Monsanto Company for developing proprietary technologies is the prestigious 2001 Edgar M. Queeny Award for Science and Technology, the highest award within Monsanto for scientific achievement and business impact (The proprietary nanocatalysts have generated billions of dollars in net profit to Monsanto).
In September 2006, Dr. Liu was recruited by the University of Missouri-St. Louis as the Director of the Center for Molecular Electronics and Professor of Physics and Chemistry; in 2007, Dr. Liu became the Founding Director of the Center for Nanoscience. Dr. Liu is also one of the Founding Directors of the St. Louis Institute of Nanomedicine, a consortium of academic and commercial partners devoted to enhancing regional infrastructure for the translational advancement of nanotechnology in medicine. Dr. Liu serves on numerous advisory committees and heavily involved in professional societies and regional economic development initiatives in Missouri. Dr. Liu was recruited to ASU in October 2011. In 2012, Dr. Liu was elected to be a Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America.
Dr. Liu's research group focuses on developing nanostructures for applications in catalysis, energy, sensing, and advanced electron microscopy techniques. s.
