^MODERATOR

^{Professor of Interfacial Science & Engineering and Director of Chemical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and is a member of the Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids. His research focuses on how liquids interact with surfaces - whether it is at the small scale of microfluidics or the large scale of flow across surfaces. This encompasses droplet-surface interactions and nature-inspired surface engineering.}

^MODERATOR

^{Prof. Jingjing Xue, Zhejiang University, China}

^{Tuning the interface of perovskite semiconductors}

^{Perovskite photovoltaics have made exceptional strides in the past decade. The power conversion efficiency of the best lab perovskite cell is now over 25%, a figure that took silicon cells more than 40 years to achieve. Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer said, “the interface is the device”. Understanding and controlling of interfaces in perovskite solar cells lie at the heart of their rapid efficiency progress. In this talk, I will focus on interface engineering in perovskite solar cells (e.g. energy alignment, doping and carrier dynamics), including the construction of heterostructures of multi-dimensional perovskites. I will discuss the synthesis of 2D perovskites atop of 3D bulk perovskite for surface passivation. The precise control over the dimensionality of these quantum-confined 2D thin layers enables us to achieve efficient carrier transport across the interface while maintaining desirable trap passivation. I will also discuss the effects of surface modifications on carrier recombination dynamics at interfaces between perovskite and carrier transport layers. The ability to tune interface conditions will be even more critical as we move towards multi-junction device architecture in pursuit of higher efficiency.}

^{Controlled epitaxial growth and fabrication of flexible hybrid halide perovskites}

^{Organic–inorganic halide perovskites have demonstrated tremendous potential for next-generation electronic and optoelectronic devices due to their remarkable carrier dynamics. Current studies are mostly focused on polycrystals, since controlled growth of high-quality single crystals is challenging. In this presentation, I will discuss strategies that enabled the first chemical epitaxial growth of single-crystal hybrid halide perovskites. Using advanced microfabrication, homo-/hetero-epitaxy, and a low-temperature solution method, single crystals can be grown with controlled locations, morphologies, orientations, and strain levels. By a lifting off approach, single-crystal thin films can be transferred from the epitaxial substrate to a general flexible substrate. Extending this strategy to low-dimensional perovskites yields nanostructured superlattices, based on which a solar cell with an open-circuit voltage exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limit is demonstrated. This approach opens up broad opportunities for hybrid halide perovskite materials based flexible high-performance electronic and optoelectronic devices.}

^{Topic: The molecular interaction regulation in advanced batteries}

^{Speaker: Peiyi Wu}

^{Peiyi Wu is currently a professor and serves as the Dean of the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Donghua University. He received his B.S. degree from Department of Chemistry, Nanjing University (1985), and his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from University of Gesamthochschule Essen (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Heinz W. Siesler (1998). After working as a research fellow at Nippon Shokubai (Japan), he joined Fudan University in 2000 and Donghua University in 2017. He was supported by “Qimingxing” Project of Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission (2001), “Shuguang” Project of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (2001), “National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars” (2004, China), “Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University” (2005, China) and selected as Shanghai Outstanding Academic Leaders (2007). In 2016, he becomes the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). In the past two decades, he has published over 200 articles and been cited about 17000 times. His research interests focus on smart and bio-inspired materials. He is devoted to exploring intra/inter-molecular microdynamics of protein-mimicking systems using two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy, accordingly designing supramolecular structures with unique stimuli-responsive behaviors and tailored mechanical properties, fabricating multifunctional materials to imitate biological intelligence, and exploiting such materials for potential artificial intelligence, soft robotics and smart wearable applications.}

^{Topic: Stable Zn anode of Zinc Batteries?}

^{Speaker: Chunyi Zhi}

^{Chunyi ZHI obtained B.S. degree in Physics from Shandong University and Ph.D. degree in condensed matter physics from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After two years’ postdoc at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan, he was promoted to be ICYS researcher, researcher and senior researcher (permanent position) in NIMS. Dr. Zhi is now a professor in MSE, CityU.}

^{Dr. Zhi has extensive experiences in flexible energy storage, aqueous electrolyte batteries, and zinc ion batteries. He has published more than 400 papers with an H-index of 108 and citations of 40000. He has been granted more than 80 patents.}

^{Dr. Zhi is a recipient of the outstand research award and President Award of CityU, NML Researcher award, and Beijing Science and Technology Award (first class). He is Clarivate Analytics Global highly cited researcher (2019-2021, Materials Science), RSC fellow and member of The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences.}

^{Topic: Reinventing Textile for Personal Comfort and Energy}

^{Speaker: Yi Cui}

^{Yi Cui is the Director of Precourt Institute for Energy and the Fortinet Founders Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received B.S. in Chemistry in 1998 at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Ph.D in 2002 at Harvard University. After that, he went on to work as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. In 2005 he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University and was promoted with tenure in 2010.}

^{He has published over 500 research papers and has an H-index of 236 (Google). In 2014, he was ranked NO.1 in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters as “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”. He is an elected member of US National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of Materials Research Society, Electrochemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry. He is an Executive Editor of Nano Letters. He is a Co-Director of the Bay Area Photovoltaics Consortium, a Co-Director of Battery 500 Consortium and Co-Director of Stanford StorageX Initiative.}

^{His selected awards include: Global Energy Prize (2021), DOE Lawrence Award (2021), MRS Medal (2020), Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience (2019), Nano Today Award (2019), Blavatnik National Laureate (2017), MRS Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience (2015), the Sloan Research Fellowship (2010), KAUST Investigator Award (2008), ONR Young Investigator Award (2008), Technology Review World Top Young Innovator Award (2004). He has founded six companies to commercialize technologies from his group: Amprius, 4C Air, EEnotech, EnerVenue, LifeLabs Design and EnnoPure.}

<sup>Topic: Metafabric for Passive Thermal Management
Speaker: Guang-ming Tao

Prof. Guang-ming Tao is with Wuhan National Laboratory of Optoelectronics and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). He serves as the Director of Sport and Health Initiative (SHI), Optical Valley laboratory. He has published nearly 80 journal papers, has more than 30 granted international/domestic invention patents and 40 pending patents. His group were awarded the "China’s Top Optical Breakthroughs " (2021), "Top 10 Social Impact Events in China’s Optics Field " (Light 10) (2021), and "China Issues Top 10 Scientific Advances " (2021 Candidate Projects), etc. The related researches were widely reported by mainstream media such as People's Daily, Xinhua News, CCTV-13, CCTV-10, the official station of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, Science Daily, and Science News.</sup>

^{Topic: Innovative cements, durability, and sustainability - can we have all three of these?
Speaker: John Provis}

^{John Provis studied Chemical Engineering and Applied Mathematics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and was awarded a PhD in Chemical Engineering by the same institution in 2006. He moved to the University of Sheffield in 2012 as Professor of Cement Materials Science and Engineering.}

^{He was awarded the 2013 RILEM Robert L’Hermite Medal "in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the research and development of geopolymers and other construction materials", and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hasselt University, Belgium, in 2015 to recognise his leadership in the development of geopolymers and other novel cementitious materials.}

^{His research has been funded by the European Research Council as well as other EU sources, UK Research Councils, industry, and international funding bodies.}

^{He is an invited TAC Expert of RILEM, a Voting Member of committees of BSI, ASTM and ACI, Editor-in-Chief of the RILEM flagship journal Materials and Structures, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of RILEM Technical Letters, Associate Editor of Cement and Concrete Research, and Speciality Chief Editor for the Structural Materials section of Frontiers in Materials.}

^{Prof. Provis has also been appointed as a Visiting Professor at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, in the Building Materials division.}

^{Topic: Geopolymer-based Sub-ambient Daytime Radiative Cooling Coating
Speaker: Jian-Guo Dai}

^{Topic: Nanomaterial Design and Innovation for Electrocatalytic Refinery
Speaker: Shi-zhang Qiao}

^{Dr Qiao is a Chair Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, and founding Director of Center for Materials in Energy and Catalysis, in the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research expertise is in nanostructured materials for electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, batteries and other new energy technologies. He has co-authored more than 475 papers in refereed journals, including Nature, Nature Energy, Nature Materials, Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Angew Chem Int Ed, J. Am. Chem. Soc, Advanced Materials (over 78,150/90,510 citation times, h-index: 141/154, Web of Science/Google Scholar). He has filed five patents on novel nanomaterials and attracted more than 15.0 million dollars in research grants from industrial partners and the Australian Research Council (ARC).}

^{In recognition of his achievements in research, he was honoured with prestigious South Australian Scientist of Year (2021), Inaugural Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research (University of Adelaide, 2019), Australian Laureate Fellow (2017), ExxonMobil Award (2016), an ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA, 2013), 2013 Emerging Researcher Award (The American Chemical Society, Division of Energy and Fuels) and UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award (2008). He has also been awarded an inaugural UQ Mid-Career Research Fellowship, a prestigious ARC ARF Fellowship and an ARC APD Fellowship.}

^{Prof Qiao is a Fellow of International Institute of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE), Royal Chemical Society (FRSC) and Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI CChem). He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry A and a Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (130 ESI Top 1% highly cited papers) in two categories (Chemistry and Materials Science).}

^{Topic: Advanced Catalyst Technologies for Clean Hydrogen Technologies
Speaker: Gang Wu}

^{Gang Wu is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University at Buffalo (UB), The State University of New York (SUNY-Buffalo). He obtained his B.S. and Ph.D. at the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1997 and 2004, respectively. He conducted extensive postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University (2004-2006), the University of South Carolina (2006-2008), and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (2008-2010). Then, he was promoted to a staff scientist at LANL. He joined SUNY-Buffalo as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2014 and was quickly promoted to a tenured associate professor in 2018 and a full professor in 2020. His research focuses on functional materials and catalysts for electrochemical energy technologies. He has published more than 280 papers in prestigious journals, which have received citations > 35,000 times and yielded an H index of 100 (Google Scholar). Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) continuously acknowledged Dr. Wu as one of the Highly Cited Researchers since 2018.}

^{Topic: Charge Modulation for Photocatalytic CO2 Conversion}

^{Speaker: Liqiang Jing}

^{Liqiang JING is currently a full professor in Heilongjiang University in Physical Chemistry. He received his PhD in environmental engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2003 and completed a postdoctoral program in physical chemistry at Jilin University from 2004 to 2006. In 2010, he worked in Professor Durrant's group as an academic visitor in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London, UK. His research focus on nanostructured semiconductor-based photocatalysis for environmental remediation and energy production, and photosensor for environmental analysis, also along with the development of space- and time-resolved (in situ) photophysical techniques like photovoltage and optical absorption methods to investigate charge dynamics in details for exploring the inherent materials structure-performance relationships. As the first and/or corresponding author, he has published over 170 professional papers in the international SCI journals, such as “Angew Chem In Ed”, “Adv Mater”, “Chem Soc Rev”, “Energy Environ Sci”, “Adv Energy Mater”, “Adv Sci”, “Appl Catal B”, “ACS Catal”, “Environ Sci Tech” and “Chem Eng J”. These papers have been positively cited for more than 11000 times in total in the SCI journals. He has been one of the Most Cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier) for 7 years, and also a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor in Environmental Chemistry since 2017. He is currently one of Editorial Board Members for “Scientific Reports”, “Materials Research Bulletin”, “The Innovation”, “Chinese Journal of Catalysis” and “eScience” journals. For more details, please visit the following link.}

^{Topic: Methane conversion to high value chemicals by photocatalysis}

^{Speaker: Junwang Tang}

^{Prof. Junwang Tang is a Member of Academia Europaea, a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Chemistry and Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University College London.}

^{His research interests encompass photocatalytic small molecule activation (eg. H2O, CO2, N2, C6H6 and CH4) and microwave catalysis (e.g. plastic recycling), together with the investigation of the underlying charge dynamics and kinetics by state-of-the-art spectroscopies. In parallel, he also explores the design of the chemical reactors for the above-mentioned processes, resulting in ca. 200 papers published in Nature Catalysis, Nature Energy, Nature Reviews Materials, Chemical Reviews, Chem. Soc. Rev. Materials Today, JACS, Angew Chemie, Nature Commu., with ~20,000 citations. Prof. Tang has also received many awards, the latest of which is the 2021 IChemE Andrew Medal due to his contribution to heterogeneous catalysis, the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize 2021 due to innovative photocatalysts discovered and 2021 IChemE Innovative Product Award due to transfer of microwave technology, besides the Runner-up of IChemE Research Project 2020, IChemE Business Start-Up Award 2019 and the 2018 IPS Scientist Award etc. He also sits on the Editorial Board of four international journals, eg. the Editor of Applied Catalysis B and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Advanced Chemical Engineering, Associate Editor of Chin. J. Catal. and Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering besides sitting on the Advisory Board of 7 other journals.}

<sup>Topic: Development of high performance and durable fuel cell electrocatalysts

Speaker: Minhua Shao</sup>

^{Minhua Shao is a full Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is also the Director of the HKUST Energy Institute. He earned BS and MS degrees in Chemistry from Xiamen University, and a PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Shao joined UTC Power in 2007 leading the development of advanced electrocatalyts for fuel cells, and was promoted to UTC Technical Fellow in 2012. In 2013, he joined Ford Motor Company to conduct research on lithium-ion batteries. He then joined HKUST in 2014. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of the Electrochemical Society. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, 1 edited book and filed over 30 patent applications (19 issued). He has also received a number of awards, including the Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award from the ECS Energy Technology Division (2014). He is one of the founding members of Young Academy of Science of Hong Kong.}

^{Dr Chuan Zhao is a full Professor at the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and the Head of UNSW Nanoelectrochemistry Lab. Prof Zhao received his PhD in 2002 with an excellence award from Northwest University, then completed postdoctoral research at University of Oldenburg and Monash University. He currently is the Chair of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Electrochemistry Division. He also holds a prestigious Professorial Future Fellowship from Australian Research Council, and is elected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of RACI (FRACI) and Fellow of Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN). He is interested in discovering novel electrochemical methodologies and materials for applications including water splitting, hydrogen fuel cells, CO2 & N2 reduction, batteries, and sensors. He has published more than 200 high impact research papers, and holds >12 patents of which 8 have been commercialised.}

^{Topic: Bio-Inspired Flexible and Stretchable Batteries}

^{Speaker: Yuan Yang}

^{Yang received a BS in physics from Peking University in 2007 and a PhD in materials science and engineering from Stanford University in 2012. After working as a postdoctoral associate at MIT for three years, he joined Columbia University as an assistant professor in 2015 and was promoted to associate professor in 2020.}

^{Yuan Yang designs, characterizes and analyzes materials and devices for electrochemical energy storage and conversion (e.g. batteries, water splitting), and thermal management (e.g. solar absorber). He has worked on the fabrication of novel electrodes for next-generation batteries, such as solid state batteries to address safety issue in Li-ion batteries, and Li-S batteries for increasing battery energy density. He also designs new battery architecture, such as transparent batteries and flexible batteries.}

^{Topic: Fiber Electronics} 

<sup>Speaker: Huisheng Peng

Professor Huisheng Peng received his BEng in Polymer Materials from Donghua University in China in 1999, MSc in Polymer Science from Fudan University in China in 2003 and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University in USA in 2006. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, US Department of Energy, from 2006 to 2008. He has been appointed as Professor at the Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials at Fudan University since 2008, became Changjiang Chair Professor in 2014, and started as the University Professor since 2020. Professor Peng has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers and 4 books. He obtains 78 licensed patents with 36 royally transferred to the industry. He receives over 30 national and international awards such as the Second Prize of National Natural Science Award, makes editorial services for over 20 journals like Advanced Functional Materials, and serves for over 20 professional organizations such as Science and Technology Commission Member of Ministry of Education of China.</sup>