Prof. Biaobiao Zhang’s group at the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels at Westlake University has published a research paper in the JACS Au. The paper is titled “Surface Reconstruction and Passivation of BiVO4 Photoanodes Depending on the “Structure Breaker” Cs+.”The research reported Cs+ at the BiVO4 photoanode–electrolyte interfaces participated in BiVO4 surface photoco...

Prof. Licheng Sun’s group has published their work in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, revealing the significant role of passivating the competitive oxygen evolution process during HMF oxidation.Prof. Licheng Sun’s group in the Department of Chemistry at Westlake University recently published a research paper in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. The paper is titled “Highly Eff...

Prof. Biaobiao Zhang’s group at the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels at Westlake University has published a research paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The paper is titled “Indium Cyanamide for Industrial-Grade CO2 Electroreduction to Formic Acid.”The research reported Indium cyanamide nanoparticles to achieve industrial formic acid synthesis from CO2...

Recently, the Wang Tao Laboratory at the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels of Westlake University has made significant progress in the study of a new mechanism for CO methanation catalysis. Their findings were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. By using density functional theory (DFT) calculations and microkinetic modeling (MKM), they conducted a system...

Prof. Licheng Sun’s group in the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels at Westlake University published a research paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The paper is titled “Alternative mechanism for O2 formation in natural photosynthesis via nucleophilic oxo–oxo coupling”.The research reported a“nucleophilic oxo−oxo coupling”mechanism between Mn(V)=oxo and...

Dr. Tao Wang’s group in the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels at Westlake University recently published a research paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The paper is titled “Toward Sabatier Optimal for Ammonia Synthesis with Paramagnetic Phase of Ferromagnetic Transition Metal Catalysts”.Ammonia is an important chemical matter but the major process for indu...

Prof. Licheng Sun’s group in the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels at Westlake University published a research paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The paper is titled “Reversible structural isomerization of nature’s water oxidation catalyst prior to O–O bond formation”.The research reported that the reversible isomerism of the oxygen-evolving complex, w...

Since the discovery of the first single-layer graphene (GR) in 2004, numerous graphene-like two dimensional (2D) materials have aroused widespread interest inartificial photosynthetic systems. 2D materials in AP systems can act as light absorbers to capture solar light, and simultaneously produce the high-energy state electron-hole pairs.Recently, Academician Sun Licheng and others from Westlak...

Recently, Dr. Tao Wang from the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels at Westlake University proposed a groundbreaking theoretical study in collaboration with Dr. Frank Abild-Pedersen from the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States, which has been published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the Nationa...

Electrochemical water splitting is an appealing and promising approach for energy conversion and storage. As a key half-reaction of electricity-driven water splitting, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a sluggish process due to the transfer of four protons and four electrons. Therefore, development of low-cost and robust OER electrocatalysts is of great importance for improving the efficie...