报告人：张子豪 助理教授

报告人单位：美国田纳西大学

报告时间：2025年7月1日（星期二）14:00-15:30

报告地点：上海交通大学张江校区 4 号楼 600 会议室

邀请人：孙轶凡 副教授

报告摘要

Heterogeneous catalysis is essential to modern chemical engineering, chemistry, and energy applications. While reaction mechanisms have been extensively studied under ultra-high vacuum (UHV) on clean, well-defined surfaces, applying these insights under practical conditions remains challenging. This is due to (1) the dynamic evolution of complex catalyst surfaces and (2) the difficulty in detecting highly reactive, short-lived intermediates. These challenges often lead to a "cook-and-look" approach in catalyst development. In situ (operando) spectroscopy, which captures real-time structural and chemical information under working conditions, offers a powerful path forward. This talk highlights how such techniques are used to uncover mechanisms in CO oxidation, propane dehydrogenation, and C1 coupling under realistic conditions.

报告人简介

Zihao Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). His research focuses on catalytic conversion of underutilized resources, such as biomass, biogas, and natural gas, into value-added chemicals, fuels, and materials through rational catalyst design. He completed postdoctoral training at ETH Zurich, Paul Scherrer Institute, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2019–2024), after earning his Ph.D. in Chem. Eng. from Zhejiang University in 2019 with a visiting period at UT (2018–2019). He has authored over 70 publications, including 30+ first-author papers in top journals such as Nat Chem Eng, Nat Commun, Angew Chem, J Am Chem Soc, ACS Catal.