9月27日，美国伊利诺伊大学香槟分校杨宏教授应邀来实验室做了题为“Electrocatalyst Nanomaterials for Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions”的学术报告。报告由重点实验室陈苏教授主持，实验室部分教师和研究生参加了此次报告会。

报告中，杨宏教授首先介绍了当前国际能源环境下，发展新型电催化、光催化为基础的能源材料的重要性。并简单阐述了目前燃料电池电极材料设计过程中存在的问题。随后，杨宏教授系统地介绍了不同形貌和结构的贵金属纳米粒子的设计和可控合成，及其在电催化领域中的应用，并重点讲解了原位电镜在纳米粒子形成过程研究中的作用，包括原位液体流动技术观察纳米粒子的成核和生长，原位变温技术研究催化剂的结构行为等。整场报告内容丰富翔实，使在场人员了解到纳米催化剂的国际前沿动态。在提问环节中，杨教授还与大家分享了能源技术、燃料电池等发展趋势的国际视角。

附杨宏教授个人简历：

Prof. Hong Yang is the Richard C. Alkire Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received his B.Sc. degree from Tsinghua University (1989), M.Sc. degree from University of Victoria (1994), and Ph.D. degree from University of Toronto (1998), and did his postdoctoral training at Harvard University. He worked at University of Rochester for the first ten years of his academic career and then joined the faculty of UIUC in 2012. Among his awards and honors, Dr. Yang received one of the two NSERC Canada Doctoral Prizes in Science (the highest graduate student award in Canada), was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, a US National Science Foundation CAREER Award winner and is an elected AAAS Fellow. He currently is a Section Editor on nanotechnology for Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering (Elsevier) and serves on the Editorial Boards of Nano Today (Elsevier), ChemNanoMat (VCH-Wiley), Science China Materials (CAS) and Frontiers in Energy (CAE) and a few other journals. He has given ~160 invited talks, including 23 plenary, keynote and name lectures. His research interests include catalysis and electrocatalysis, formation mechanism of nanocrystals, nanomaterials for energy and biological applications.