Single-Atom Catalysis by Zhang Tao
张涛，中国科学院大连化学物理研究所研究员，中国科学院院士、发展中国家科学院院士、加拿大工程院国际院士。第十四届全国人大常委会委员、全国人大环境与资源保护委员会委员。曾任中科院大连化学物理研究所所长、中国科学院副院长。主要从事能源化工及催化新材料等方面的研究，所率领的团队在国际上率先提出“单原子催化(Single-Atom Catalysis) ”的新概念，首次发现纤维素一步法催化转化制乙二醇的新反应。曾获国家技术发明二等奖、周光召应用科学奖、中国科学院杰出成就奖、何梁何利科技进步化学奖、ChinaNANO Award、亚太催化成就奖，首届唐敖庆化学奖，2024未来科学大奖-物质科学奖等奖励，担任 JACS 副主编以及多个国际和国内期刊的主编、副主编和编委。2025年9月，成为中国内地首获“引文桂冠奖”的科学家。
Date & Time: Friday, November 28, 2025, 9:00 - 10:00 AM
Venue: Yifu Building Lecture Hall
Language: Chinese
Single-Atom Catalysis has emerged as a new frontier not only in heterogeneous catalysis but also in chemistry and material field since our team coined this new concept in 2011 (Nature Chemistry 2011, 3, 634-641). With the great potential for maximizing the atom efficiency and the well-defined active sites in a catalytic process, single-atom catalysts (SACs) have received incredibly increased attentions. Great advance has been achieved in the past decade in the preparation of highly efficient SACs, the exploration of new reactions, as well as the mechanism understanding of catalysis, In this lecture, I will introduce the fast progress of SACs to address some of the fundamental issues about single-atom catalysis, including the nature of the active sites in SACs, the essential role of coordination structure of single atoms, as well as the dynamics of SACs during reactions. Moreover, the significant opportunities and challenges in this new field of catalysis will be discussed.