Prof. Wenxing Yang’s group in the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels at Westlake University recently published a research article in Journal of the American Chemical Society. The paper is titled “Spontaneous Reconstruction of Copper Active Sites during the Alkaline CORR: Degradation and Recovery of the Performance”.Using CO molecules as both reactants and structural probes, ...

Prof. Tao Wang’s group in the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels at Westlake University has recently published research work in JACS Au, which was selected as a supplementary cover article. The paper is titled “Theoretical Approach toward a Mild Condition Haber–Bosch Process on the Zeolite Catalyst with Confined Dual Active Sites”.In this work, the team computationally desi...

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...