主讲内容：Replacement of precious metal catalysts bycommercially available alternatives is of great importance among bothfundamental and practical catalysis research. Nanostructured carbon-based andtransition metal materials have demonstrated promising catalytic properties ina wide range of energy generation/storage applications. Specifically engineering carbon with guestmetals/metal-free atoms can improve its catalytic activity for electrochemicaloxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogenevolution reaction (HER), thus can be considered as potential substitutes forthe expensive Pt/C or IrO2 catalysts in fuel cells, metal-airbatteries and water splitting process. In this presentation, we will talk aboutthe synthesis of nonprecious metal and metal free elements-doped carbon, and their application on electrocatalysis.The excellent ORR, OER and HER performance (high catalytic activity andefficiency) and reliablestability (much better than the commercial Pt/C or IrO2) indicate that new materials are promising highly efficient electrocatalysts for clean energy conversion.

主讲人简介：Prof. Shi-Zhang Qiao is currently a professor (Chair of Nanotechnology) at School ofChemical Engineering of the University of Adelaide, Australia. His researchexpertise is in nanomaterials and nanoporous materials for new energytechnologies including electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, fuel cell,supercapacitor and batteries. He has co-authored more than 280 papers inrefereed journals (23,900 citations with h-index 81), including Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Energy, NatureCommunications, J. Am. Chem. Soc, Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater. He has filed several patents and has attracted more than 9.0 milliondollars in research grants from industrial partners and Australian ResearchCouncil (ARC).

Inrecognition of his achievements in research, he was honoured with aprestigious ExxonMobil Award (2016), ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA,2013), Emerging Researcher Award (2013, ENFL Division of the American ChemicalSociety) and UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award (2008). He has also beenawarded an ARC ARF Fellowship, an ARC APD Fellowship and an inaugural UQMid-Career Research Fellowship.

Prof Qiao is currently an Honorary Professor at The University ofQueensland and is appointed to ARC College of Experts. He is an AssociateEditor of Journal of Materials ChemistryA (RSC), Editorial Board member of ChemBioEng Review (Wiley), Energy Storage Materials (Elsevier) and Advisory Board member of ChemNanoMat(Wiley), Journal of Materials Science &Technology (Elsevier), Small Methods(Wiley) and AdvancedMaterials Technologies (Wiley).  Heis a Fellow of IChemE, a Fellow of Royal Australian Chemical InstituteChartered Chemist (FRACI CChem) and a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry(FRSC). Prof.Qiao is a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.