Prof. Tao Wang’s group has published their work in Nature Communications, revealing the dynamic evolution of the electrode’s local microenvironment and the mass-transport effects on the hydrogen evolution reaction.Recently, Prof. Tao Wang’s group at the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels at Westlake University has achieved new breakthroughs in computational electrochemistry....

Last year, a frozen watermelon skin taught Licheng Sun's team how to design an ion transport membrane. This year, the same rind facilitated a collaboration between two Westlake University research teams, successfully converting carbon dioxide into high-carbon diols—a class of platform compounds with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars.Recently, the Center of Artificial Photosynth...

Highly efficient and stable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts are critical to the performance of anion exchange membrane water electrolysis (AEM-WE) devices. However, at ampere-level high current densities, the accumulation and retention of oxygen bubbles lead to localized mass-transfer limitations, blockage of active sites, and stress concentration at the electrode interface, si...

Prof. Tao Wang’s group at the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels at Westlake University (CAP for Solar Fuels @Westlake) recently published a research paper in Nature Communications, which is titled “Resolving chemical-motif similarity with enhanced atomic structure representations for accurately predicting descriptors at metallic interfaces.”This work has successfully tackle...

On September 15, the School of Science at Westlake University, together with the Zhang Biaobiao Laboratory and the Sun Licheng Laboratory of the Center for Artificial Photosynthesis and Solar Fuels, published a groundbreaking study in the top chemistry journal Nature Chemistry, unveiling a completely new mechanism for water oxidation.They discovered that the nickel (Ni) active phase involved in...

The research team led by Biaobiao Zhang at the Center for Artificial Photosynthesis and Solar Fuels, Westlake University, in collaboration with Licheng Sun's group, recently published a paper in Nature Communications. The paper is titled "Lanthanum-assisted lattice anchoring of iridium in Co₃O₄ for efficient oxygen evolution reaction in low-iridium water electrolysis."The study introduces a l...

Prof. Biaobiao Zhang’s group at the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels at Westlake University has published a research paper in the Science Advances. The paper is titled “Gallium Modulated Tin Oxide for Continuous Production of Formic Acid via Durable Acidic CO2 Electroreduction.”The research reported a facile method to prepare a Ga-doped SnOx catalyst for acidic CO2 electr...

Prof. Wenxing Yang’s group in the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels at Westlake University recently published a research article in Nature Catalysis. The paper is titled “Resolving non-covalent interactions between surface hydroxyl on Cu and interfacial water in alkaline CO electroreduction”.Utilizing in situ Raman spectroscopy, this study reveals those non-covalent interac...

Prof. Wenxing Yang’s group at the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels, Westlake University, has recently published a research article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), titled “Operando Raman characterization of unique electroinduced molecular tautomerization in zero-gap electrolyzers promotes CO2 reduction.”In this work, they developed an operando Ram...

Prof. Licheng Sun’s group has published their work in the Angewandte Chemie International Edition, highlighting the crucial role of a zwitterion-modified NiFe catalyst that has demonstrated stable performance for over 14000 h at ampere-scale current density in anion exchange membrane water electrolysis device.Prof. Licheng Sun’s group in the Department of Chemistry at Westlake University rece...