CO₂ Conversion and the Dual Carbon Goals

Lecture Topic

CO₂ Conversion and the Dual Carbon Goals

Organizer

College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Venue

Lecture Hall, 2nd Floor, Wenduan Building

Time

16:00, March 17, 2025

Speaker

Sun Weiyin

Speaker's Profile

Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Nanjing University. Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2004. He serves as the Executive Associate Editor of the Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Editorial Board Member of Structural Chemistry and Journal of Coordination Chemistry, and Advisory Board Member of CrystEngComm. Professor Sun graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from East China Normal University in 1986 and was admitted as a Master's candidate to the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1987, he was awarded a Chinese government scholarship to study in Japan, earning his M.S. (1990) and Ph.D. (1993) in Science from Osaka University. From 1993 to 1995, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Central Research Institute of Shionogi & Co., Ltd. in Japan. Since returning to China in early 1996, he has been working at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the Institute of Coordination Chemistry, and the State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry at Nanjing University. His research focuses on coordination chemistry and supramolecular chemistry. He has published over 400 SCI-indexed papers. In 2014, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and in recent years, he has been consistently listed among Elsevier's Highly Cited Chinese Researchers.

Abstract

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is a major greenhouse gas molecule, and its efficient conversion is one of the key pathways to achieving the dual carbon goals of “carbon peak” and “carbon neutrality”. To this end, extensive and in-depth research has been carried out by the scientific community. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), characterized by their well-defined structures, tunability, and composability, serve as an excellent platform for enabling efficient CO₂ conversion. This lecture will present our research group’s recent work on the photoelectrocatalytic conversion of CO₂ using MOFs and their composite materials.