演講快訊

2024
04.19

Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Storage & Conversion

陳盈竹 教授

時間:2024年04月19日 (五) 15:10
主持人:孫亞賢 教授
講者:陳盈竹 教授
服務單位:台北科技大學 化學工程學系
講題:Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Storage & Conversion
地點:93406

摘要 :

Imagine assembling thousands of wheels into a machine capable of taking full advantage of sustainable solar energy to readily satisfy the burgeoning energy demand of humanity for millennium.  Although wheels are not molecules, Nature has done exactly that, assembling chlorophyll and carotenoid as the pigments, manganese–calcium oxide cluster as the catalyst, and so on into the sophisticated chloroplast to convert renewable sunlight into chemical fuels to power living organisms for billions of years. Understanding how the remarkable functionality of such a biomachinery come about from the synergistic effect of those components and further using this knowledge to design a synthetic system, which consists otherwise of inorganic compounds that, however, obey the same laws of physics as those molecules and exceeds in the performance of its biological counterpart, have long been the central thrust of my research group. Another central theme has been to develop the post–lithium electrochemical energy storage technologies, e.g. rechargeable aqueous battery, and the supercapacitor, to address (i) the safety issue resulted from the thermal runaway caused by the reactivity of the electrode material with the flammable organic electrolyte and (ii) the mismatch in the energy and power densities reported for the electrodes and devices, respectively. My contribution to the aforementioned two fields have been made by leveraging my expertise in the chemical synthesis of novel functional nanomaterials and their controllable integration into well–designed multi–junction heterostructures as the electroactive materials and photoelectrocatalysts, which will be discussed during my presentation.

學經歷 :

Prof. Ying-Chu Chen is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Department at National Taipei University of Technology. She received her PhD degree in Chemistry and Biosciences at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Later on, she worked as an Assistant and Associate Professor in China-UK Low Carbon College at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China before moving back to Taiwan.

Prof. Chen’s research group is focusing on the development of novel functional nanomaterials and their controllable integration into well–designed multi–junction heterostructures, which are further applied as either the photoelectrocatalyst for artificial photosynthesis or electroactive materials in electrochemical energy storage devices. Those results have been published as more than 70 peer–reviewed papers in journals such as Nature Communications, Chemical Engineering Journal, Small, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ACS Catalysis, NPG Asia Materials, Nano Research, etc.