报告题目：Sunlight + Natural Resource = Energy + Chemical
主 讲 人：刘彬 南洋理工大学
报告时间：2018年12月14日（星期五） 9:30
报告地点：材料科学楼404
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Biography

       Bin Liu received his B.Eng. (1^st Class Honors) and M.Eng. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 2011. Thereafter, he moved to University of California, Berkeley and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Chemistry during 2011 – 2012 before joining School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University as an Assistant Professor in 2012. He is now an Associate Professor at NTU. His main research interests are electrocatalysis, photovoltaics and photoelectrochemistry. More information can be found at http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/liubin/home.html.

Abstract

The world demand for energy will double by the middle of the 21^st century. If we continue to use burning of fossil fuels as the primary energy source, this will also double our carbon dioxide emission. Eighty percent of our current global energy consumption comes from burning fossil fuels. This nearly exclusive reliance on burning carbon-based fuels causes increased pollution and global warming. It is a daunting challenge for human beings to find clean and abundant energy sources to meet the increasing global energy demand. In this talk, I am going to summarize our recent efforts in solar energy conversion; examples include: printable perovskite solar cells for solar-to-electricity conversion, water splitting and seawater splitting cells for solar-to-hydrogen conversion, photoreforming cells for solar-to-chemical conversion, CO₂ reduction cells for CO₂-to-chemical conversion, and etc.