THE PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

ELECTRON CHEMISTRY AND CATALYSIS AT INTERFACES

电子化学和表面催化领域研究 -- 国际研究和教育合作团队

The PIRE-ECCI connects UCSB with one of the top Chinese scientific institutes, the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, where some of top scientists in China are working in the areas of Chemical Reaction Dynamics and Heterogeneous Catalysis.

CHINESE COLLEAGUES

Xueming Yang
Professor Yang serves as the Foreign Program Coordinator, the primary responsible official for the PIRE-ECCI in Dalian. He graduated from Zhejiang Normal University of China in 1982, and received his M. Sc. from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 1985 and Ph.D. from University of California Santa Barbara, USA in 1991. He carried out research on molecular reaction dynamics in Princeton University, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and University of California. He was appointed Associate Fellow by Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (Taiwan) in 1995 and full Professor in 2000. He was also appointed an Adjunct Professor by National Tsing Hua University. Since 2001 he has been a Professor and Director of State Key Laboratory for Molecular Dynamics at the Dalian Institute for Chemical Dynamics.

Xinhe Bao
Professor Bao is Director of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Professor and Group Leader in the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Chief Scientist of the National Key Project of Fundamental Research "Catalytic basis on optimal utilization of natural gas and coal-based methane", Principal Investigator of the BP-CAS "Clean Energy Facing the Future" Program, Head of the Partner Group on "Nano-technology in Catalysis" between Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG (Germany) and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (CAS), Dean of the department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China.

Can Li
Can Li received his Ph.D. in the Physical Chemistry of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 1989 and became Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 1993. He was a post.-doctoral Fellow at Northwestern University from 1994-1996 and a visiting Professor at The University of Liverpool in 1999 at The University of Tokyo in 2000, at Lehigh University in 2002 and an Invited Professor at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in 2003. Can Li serves on the editorial boards of "Applied Catalysis A", "J. Mol. Catal. A", "Catalysis Surveys from Asia" and about nine other Chinese journals. Can Li has received numerous awards including the "National Outstanding Young Scientist Award" and "Hong Kong Qiu-Shi Young Scientist Award". Can Li is working on both fundamental and applied catalysis, and training the graduate students and post-docs to be the skilled experts in the catalysis and related fields. He tries to understand catalysis at the atomic, molecular as well as the nanometer scale, to understand the reaction mechanism from the study on adsorption, desorption, surface intermediates and time-resolved dynamics of the reactions; and to reveal the essential relationship between catalytic performance and the catalyst structure and composition, by using physico-chemical techniques, particularly in-situ vibrational and optical spectroscopies. Based on the understanding of the fundamental principles of catalysis, Can Li is applying them in the designing and developing of more selective and active catalysts for practical applications in environmental protection, energy conversion, fine chemicals production and preparation of materials.

Donghui Zhang

Experience:

NUS; July 2000 - Present Associate Professor
NUS; June 1997 - June 2000 Assistant Professor
The University of Chicago 1995-1997 Postdoctoral Associate
New York University 1989-1994, Ph.D; 1994-1995, Postdoctoral Associate
Fudan University 1985-1989 BSc

Area of Research:
Polyatomic chemical reaction dynamics in gas-phase; Spectroscopy and photofragmentation dynamics of polyatomic molecules; Chemical processes on surface and in condensed matter; Electron transport in nanostructures.

Wei-Xue Li
Wei-Xue Li: Wei-Xue Li received his B. S. at the Wuhan University (Physics, 1992) and Ph. D. at Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (Materials Science, 1998). From 1999 - 2002, he worked as post-doctoral fellow at Fritz-Haber-Institut, MPG with Matthias Scheffler. From 2002 - 2004, he worked as assistant professor at University of Aarhus, Denmark with Bjork Hammer. He joined the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), CAS in July, 2004. Since then, Professor and Group Leader of the "Theoretical Catalysis" in State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Head of the partner group on "First-Principles Theory of High-Pressure Oxidation Catalysis" between Fritz-Haber-Institut (with K. Reuter) and DICP. His current interests include the catalytic reaction under oxidizing conditions, oxidation of transition metal surfaces and novel reaction mechanism at the interface/boundary of metal and metal oxide by density functional theory.

Jinlong Yang
Changjiang Professor, Laboratory of Bond Selective Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China.

RESEARCH INTERESTS include Molecules, Clusters, Nanoparticles, Surfaces; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; Computational Condensed Matter Physics and Material Physics.

CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS include DFT and TDDFT Studies of Atomic Clusters (fullerenes, transition-metal oxide clusters,...); STM Image and dI/dV Mapping Simulation; Theoretical Studies on Nanotubes (adsorption,deformation,doping,...); Transport Properties of Molecular Devices; Electronic Structure of Novel Surfaces and Bulk Materials; New Computational Methods and Codes.

Hongfei Wang
Dr. Wang is Professor and Group Leader in the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) at Beijing. He received his B.S. in 1988 from the Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) at Hefei, Anhui Province, China; Ph.D. in 1996 from the Department of Chemistry, Columbia University in the City of New York. He worked as a postdoctorate fellow at the Dupont Marshall Laboratory at Philadelphia, Laboratory for Research of Structure of Matters (LRSM) and Department of Chemistry at University of Pennsylvania between 1996 and 1999, before he joint his current position at ICCAS. He has been using nonlinear spectroscopic techniques, such as second harmonic generation (SHG) and sum frequency generation Vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS) to study spectroscopy, structure and dynamics of molecules at interfaces. His current research concentrated on developing systematic quantitative methodology and experimental techniques for studying of interfacial molecules, and on elucidation of orientational structure and dynamics of liquid interfaces.

Qi-Kun Xue
Dr. Qi-Kun Xue graduated from the Optics Department, Shandong University in 1984, and received his Ph.D in condensed matter physics from the Institute of Physics at Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1994. From 1994 to 2000, he worked as a research associate at the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan. From June 1996 to May 1997, Dr. Xue was a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, USA. In 2000, he became a professor and set up his research group at the Institute of Physics, CAS, Beijing. He later became a chair professor of the Department of Physics, Tsinghua University in May 2005. In December of 2005, Dr. Xue was elected into the Chinese Academy of Science.

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