Artificial Leaves: from Configuration Design to Device Assemble
人工树叶：从结构设计到器件组装
Jinlong Gong（巩金龙）
ABSRACT
The research on renewable energy sources and technologies are becoming increasingly vital to a sustainable world. As the Energy and Catalysis Adventure Team (ECAT), our mission is to provide solutions for a new framework to support sustainable development for the future. Simulating the natural photosynthesis, thereby constructing artificial leaves to realize the utilization of sunlight, water, and CO2 to produce fuels (solar fuels), is an effective strategy to realize this goal. At Tianjin University, the ECAT led by Prof. Jinlong Gong has put forward a series of new ideas for the synthesis of solar fuels based on addressing key scientific problems such as the improvement of the driving force of the photoelectrochemical reaction, the regulation of the reaction path on the catalyst surface, and the configuration optimization of artificial leaves, etc. In this talk, Prof. Jinlong Gong will specifically discuss the research progress of the ECAT team in the field of artificial photosynthesis. Their findings are helpful to the establishment of a sustainable development goal based on solar fuels.
进行可再生能源技术的开发与研究是构建可持续发展社会的关键。围绕这一目标，天津大学“新能源化学工程团队”（ECAT）的使命是为新能源的发展提供解决方案，助力未来社会的可持续性发展。通过模拟自然光合作用并构建人工树叶，可以实现对阳光、水和二氧化碳的转化利用，进而得到碳氢燃料（太阳能燃料），实现CO2的资源化。该路径是高效利用可再生能源的有效方法。巩金龙教授领导ECAT团队针对该过程中的关键科学问题开展了一系列系统而深入的研究，包括提高光电化学反应的驱动力、调控表面反应路径、设计人工树叶的构型等。在本次报告中，巩金龙教授将具体介绍ECAT团队在人工光合作用领域的研究进展，他们的研究成果有助于实现基于太阳能利用的可持续发展目标。
BIOGRAPHY
Jinlong Gong is a Cheung Kong Chair Professor of the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology in Tianjin University and the director of International Joint Research Center of Energy Chemical Engineering of Tianjin. He is a known expert in the field of energy chemical engineering and heterogeneous catalysis. Prof. Gong’s major fields of research includes artificial photosynthesis, alkane activation as well as conversion of carbon oxides. The ECAT team he leads has provided new strategies for the future energy framework. Based on artificial photosynthesis, the upgrading of CO2 to value-added multicarbon chemicals and the green production of hydrogen are realized. By pushing forward the development of new catalysts, breakthroughs in propane dehydrogenation to propylene are achieved. He has published more than 270 papers with a citation of >20000 times and an H-index of 75. He has been listed as a co-inventor on 95 patents and applications.
巩金龙，教育部长江学者特聘教授、天津大学北洋讲席教授、国家重点研发计划项目（基础前沿类）首席科学家、英国皇家化学学会Fellow，天津市能源化学工程国际联合研究中心主任，能源化工和非均相催化领域的知名专家。巩金龙教授的主要研究领域包括人工光合作用、烷烃活化及二氧化碳催化转化，他领导的ECAT团队为未来的能源发展提供了许多新的策略。利用人工光合作用，他们不仅将二氧化碳转化为高附加值的多碳化学品，还实现了绿色制氢。通过推动新型催化剂的开发，实现了我国丙烷脱氢制丙烯领域的重大突破。巩金龙教授发表论文270余篇，被引用20000余次，H指数75，获得专利授权95项。