Summary of Research Interest

Solar energy conversion has been attracting enduring interest in the past few decades due to the deteriorating energy crisis. Solar-driven photocatalysis has been deemed as an efficacious approach to solve this problem by maximally harnessing the merits of solar energy including cleanness, sustainability and abundance without exerting detrimental influence on the environment. Our research interests are predominantly centered on the design and construction of composite functional nanomaterials for heterogeneous photocatalysis including photocatalytic selective organic transformation, photocatalytic hydrogen generation, and photocatalytic CO2 conversion to fine chemicals as well as for photoelectrocatalysis such as photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting and PEC CO2 reduction. We are particularly interested in exploring new strategies for fine tuning of photoinduced charge carriers in photoredox catalysis