Speaker: Prof. Qichun Zhang, City University of Hong Kong

Time: 10:00 a.m., June 6, 2023, GMT+8

Venue: Room A204, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering

Abstract:

Since Yaghi et al, reported the first covalent organic frameworks (COFs) in 2005, COFs havecaused many scientists' interest in both fundamental research (synthesis, properties, theoreticasimulation, etc.) and possible applications (gas absorption/separation, catalysis, energy-relatecdevices, sensing, imaging, and so on). In this talk, I will present our recent progress on the preparation of novel COFs as well as their diverse applications in optoelectrical devices.

Biography:

Dr. Oichun Zhang received his B.S. at Nanjing University in China in 1992, MS in physicalorganic chemistry (organic solid lab) at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998MS in organic chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (USA, 2003), and completed hisPh.D. in chemistry at University of California Riverside in 2007. Then, he joined Prof. Kanatzidisgroup at Northwestern University as a Postdoctoral Fellow (Oct. 2007 -Dec. 2008). Since Jan, 2009he joined School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTUSingapore) as an Assistant Professor. On Mar 1st, 2014, he has promoted to Associate Professor withtenure. On Sep 1st 2020.he movedDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering at CitUniversity of Hong Kong as a full professor. Currently, he is an associate editor of J. Solid State Chemistry & Susmat, the International Advisory Board member of Chemistry - An Asian Journalthe Advisory board member of Journal of Materials Chemistry C, the Advisory board member oiMaterials Chemistry Frontiers, the Advisory board member of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, theAdvisory board member of Aggerate, the Advisory board member of Materials Advances, and theAdvisory board member of Science Chinese Materials, Also. he is Guest Editors of CCS Chemistr(2020-2021). Advanced Materials (2020-2021), J Mater Chem C 2020-2021, 2017-2018) MaterChem Front (2019-2020), Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (2016-2017, 2017-2018). From 2018 to 2021he has been recognized as one of highly-cited researchers (top 1%) in cross-field in ClarivateAnalytics and In 2022, he was recognized as one of highly-cited researchers (top 1%) in MaterialChemistry in Clarivate Analytics. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Currently, hisresearch focuses on carbon-rich conjugated materials and their applications. Till now, he haspublished > 499 papers and 10 patents (H-index: 106).

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