Research

Research Synopsis

  • Research Synopsis

    The research of our photochemistry group focuses on solar energy as one of the most promising forms of renewable energy and aims to solve the global crisis of climate change concerning our human survival.  We aim to transform cheap and ubiquitous substances including H2O, CO2, N2, or lignin into valuable fuels or value-added chemicals such as H2, CO, CH3OH, NH3, etc with sunlight and some “chemical magic”.  One of the most important advantages for the students being trained in our research group is getting to learn the “chemical magic”, a.k.a. the understanding of fundamental electron transfer processes through state-of-the-art spectroscopic techniques in our laboratory. Students and Postdocs in our photochemistry group will be immersed in the following research topics:


    1.       Energy-demanding organic photoredox catalysis and the underlying photochemistry of visible light harvesting molecular photocatalysts

    2.       Solar fuels production and the underlying photoinduced electron transfer mechanisms           

    3.       Photoelectrochemical devices for artificial photosynthesis

     

    Our independent research is also made possible through very fruitful collaborations:

    ·         Gerald J. Meyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), USA

    ·         Renato N. Sampaio, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), USA

    ·         Ludovic Troian-Gautier, UCLouvain, Belgian

    ·         Matthew V. Sheridan, Soochow University, China

    ·         Jianli Hua, East China University of Science and Technology, China

    ·         Baojiang Jiang, Heilongjiang University, China

    ·         Jia Guo, Fudan University, China

    ·         Zhang-Jie Shi, Fudan University, China

Ongoing Research ...

Laboratory Equipm...

  • Material synthesis and preparation







    High-speed freezing centrifuge(15,000 rpm)


    Fume hoods &Schlenk Line


    Tube Furnace(KEJING)


    Freeze drier


    Photochemical characterization







    Agilent Cary 60 Ultraviolet-visible Spectrophotometer


    TSP2000 Transient absorption spectrometer

    Agilent Cary Eclpse Fluorescence Spectrophotometer*

    (Provided by instrument experimental platform)

    Electrochemical Workstation

    (CHI760+CHI1232)

               

               

    Xenon Lamp light source (AM 1.5 G)

    GC9790Plus

               

               

    Laser

    Perfect Light Multi-channel Photoreactor



    The large-scale instrument experimental platform of the Department of Chemistry, Fudan University and the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers can provide a series of tests such as NMR, XRD, XPS, TEM, SEM, GC-MS, HPLC, etc. for laboratory research.







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