Academic Lecture by Professor Yang Nianjun from University of Siegen and Dr. Zhang Wei from University of Surrey in HuBei University
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On the afternoon of December 20, 2019, Professor Yang Nianjun of the University of Siegen in Germany and Dr. Zhang Wei of the Institute of advanced technology of the University of Surrey in the UK were invited to our university to give an academic lecture, which was held in conference Room D415. The lecture was presided over by Professor Zhang Xiuhua, vice president of the school of chemistry and chemical engineering, and relevant teachers and postgraduate students of the school attended the report meeting.
Professor Yang Nianjun's report is entitled "Advanced carbon materials and their composites for energy applications". In his lecture, Professor Yang introduced the application of carbon materials as well as their composites in the field of energy, focusing on the basic and applied research of diamond carbon materials in the field of electrochemistry. The report lays emphasis not only on the synthetic methods of materials, but also on the application of materials in the field of energy. Through Professor Yang's in-depth explanation of carbon materials, teachers and students have a deeper understanding of carbon materials. When eagerly asked, Professor Yang answered patiently in turn, which benefited everyone a lot. At the same time, Professor Yang also shared with them all the experience of his studying and working in Germany, and encouraged all students to work hard with modesty and enthusiasm.
The topic of Dr. Zhang Wei’s lecture is "Metal Halide Perovskites: From Fundamentals to Device Applications". In his lecture, Dr. Zhang Wei introduced the preparation methods and applications of halide perovskite materials, stressing on the rationale of metal halide perovskite and the preparation of high-quality perovskite films. Through Dr. Zhang's lucid explanation of halide perovskite, teachers and students got to know more about perovskite semiconductor materials. During the heated discussion on the conversion efficiency of perovskite and the preparation method of materials, Dr. Zhang Wei answered the students patiently one by one, which enlightened everyone immensely.
Professor Yang Nianjun is the leader of the nano materials research group of University of Siegen in Germany, who is mainly committed to the chemical vapor synthesis of various carbon materials and their basic and applied research in electrochemistry and other fields. Apart from having published 1 series of books, 4 monographs and wrote 9 chapters of the book, he has published more than 130 papers in various magazines in recent years, including Chem. Soc. Rev.、Energy Environ. Sci.、Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、Nano Lett.、Adv. Energy Mater.、Adv. Funct. Mater.、ACS Catal.、ACS Nano、Nat. Commun, etc. In addition, he has made invitation reports at different international conferences for nearly 30 times, making around 50 oral presentations at international conferences, and over 50 invited lectures at universities or research institutes. Professor Yang Nianjun is now the guest editor of the magazine of Acc. Chem. Res.、Small、Nanoscale、ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces、Carbon、J. Electroanal. Chem.、Electroanalysis、Dia Relat. Mater、physica status solidi (a), etc. and the editorial board of Sci. Rep., Dia Relat. Mater and so on. Furthermore, he is the chairman of the branch of the annual European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) and a member of the Committee of the Hasselt Diamond Seminar and the International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials, having organized and presided over 10 international conferences.
Dr. Zhang Wei is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of advanced technology of the University of Surrey under the guidance of Professor Henry Snaith of Oxford University, an academician of the Royal Society and one of the founders of perovskite cells. He is mainly engaged in the theoretical and practical research of new energy materials and third-generation photovoltaic devices, which covers perovskite cells, dye-sensitized cells, organic-inorganic hybrid cells, etc., and his research contents include the synthesis of light absorbing materials, design and preparation of electrode materials, design and performance optimization of device structure, device working mechanism, practical application and early industrialization of devices, etc. In 2019, Dr. Zhang Wei was selected as one of the "Highly Cited Researchers" by Clarivate Analytics, a data analysis company in China. In the past five years, he has published more than 50 academic papers (21 journals with impact factors > 10.0) in important international academic journals, including one paper in Science, one in Nature Review Materials, one in Nature Energy, four in Nature Communications, two in Nano Letters, two in Energy & Environmental Science, two in Advanced Materials, two in Advanced Functional Materials and one in Small. His papers are altogether cited more than 8600 times with the Google h-index of 37. Besides, he has made oral reports 6 times at various international top-level meetings, invited lecture 3 times and served as the chairman of the branch of the general assembly 3 times. He is also a member of the American Chemical Society, the British Chemical Society and the British Photovoltaic Cell Research Alliance, winning the NUS President Scholarship, China Excellent Self-Funded International Student Award, and the best Doctoral Thesis Award for Environmental and Sustainability Research of the World Future Foundation, 2017 Emerging Investigators (Journal of Materials Chemistry A)，2018 Finalist of “Researcher of the Year”(University of Surrey), etc. Now Dr. Zhang Wei is the deputy editor in chief of Energy and Environmental Materials (since 2018) as well as Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (since 2017) and the guest editors of several journals. He has long acted as the reviewer of more than 20 top academic journals for a long time, including Chemical Reviews, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy and so on. He has also been the research fund reviewer of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
