Prof. Yoji Kobayashi

单位：阿卜杜拉国王科技大学（KAUST）

报告时间：2024年 9月25号（星期三）14:00-15:00

报告地点：张江校区4号楼600会议室

邀请人：叶天南 长聘教轨副教授

个人简介

Yoji Kobayashi studied organometallic chemistry and received his B.A. (Honors) from Dartmouth College, USA, with David Glueck. In 2002, he earned his Ph.D. in inorganic materials with Thomas Mallouk at Penn State, USA. After postdoctoral work on metal-organic frameworks with Jeffrey Long at UC Berkeley, he joined Kyoto University in 2010 as an Assistant Professor, later becoming a Lecturer and Associate Professor. Since 2021, he has been at KAUST, leading his group in solid state chemistry and catalysis.

报告摘要

Heterogeneous catalysts are typically characterized by metal nanoparticles supported on simple supports like Al2O3, SiO2, carbon, and others. Consequently, the catalyst/support combinations have remained limited over the past century, despite the field's growth and societal demands. As a solid state chemistry group, we focus on new hydrides, carbides/nitrides, intermetallics, mixed anion systems, and high-entropy materials for catalysis. We have discovered that hydrides in solids are highly exchangeable, leading to numerous applications in catalysis and inorganic synthesis. Additionally, intermetallics and other compounds such as nitrides and hydrides offer a vast array of materials. Together, they represent an immense, underexplored resource for developing new catalysts and chemical transformations.