Designing Semiconductor Nanomaterialsfor

Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion

Lianzhou Wang

Nanomaterials Centre, School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, the University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4072, QLD, Australia.Email:l.wang@uq.edu.au

The capability to design innovative semiconductor materials with desirable functionalities is a highly challenging task. In this talk, we give a brief overview of our recent progresses in designing semiconductormetal oxidesmaterials for photoelectrochemical energy conversionincluding photocatalytic solar fuel generation and low cost solar cells.In more details, we have been focusingonthe following a few aspects; 1)band-gap engineering of layered semiconductor compoundsincluding layered titanate, tantalate and niobate-based metal oxide compoundsfor visible light phtocatalysis, and2)two-dimensional nanosheets/nanoplates of TiO₂, Fe₂O₃and WO₃as building blocks for new photoelectrode design，and 3) the design of semiconductor nanoparticles for low cost solar cells including perovskite solar cell applications.^1-5The resultant material systems exhibited efficient visible light photocatalytic performanceand improved power conversion efficiency in solar energy,which underpin important solar-energy conversion applications includingsolar electricity and solar fuel production.

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4. Adv. Mater., 2016, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201601525.

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简历:

王连洲, 现为澳大利亚昆士兰大学化工公司终身教授，纳米材料研究中心主任,澳洲基金委未来学者。主要从事半导体纳米材料的合成及其在清洁能源领域的应用。1999年博士毕业于中国科公司上海硅酸盐研究所，1999年至2004年在日本国立产业技术综合研究所和日本国立物质材料研究机构做博士后研究。2004年起在澳大利亚昆士兰大学任项目研究员/澳洲基金委女王伊丽莎白学者，化工公司高级讲师 （2007）,副教授(2010)，教授(2012-)。先后在诸多国际期刊包括Chem. Rev.，Chem. Soc. Rev., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc.等发表论文250多篇，专著章节10部，申请专利12项，论文被引用12000多次，作国际会议大会或邀请学术报告60余次。近年作为主要负责人（Chief Investigator）先后承担或参与了澳大利亚基金委、澳洲科公司、昆士兰州政府以工业界等40余项竞争性研究项目，总金额超过2000 万澳元。担任Journal of Nanoparticle Research和科学通报英文版（Science Bulletin）执行副主编。先后获得澳洲基金委女王伊丽莎白学者称号(2006)，昆士兰大学研究优秀奖(2008)，澳洲寻找未来之星奖（Scopus Young Researcher Award, 2011）,澳洲基金委未来学者称号（Future Fellowship, 2012），入选澳洲基金委工程技术领域专家委员会（College of Experts）和英国皇家化学会会士。