Research Interest 1:
Incorporating enzyme-inspired
outer coordination sphere to improve
hydrogen production catalysis
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Strategy: Incorporating enzyme-inspired outer coordination sphere
features around existing cobalt complexes
Goal: Improve their electro-catalytic performance and overall stability
Research Interest 2:
Developing bio-inspired photosensitizer-electrocatalyst
adduct for facile photoreduction of water to hydrogen
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Strategy: Employing an interactive link organic/inorganic/
nanomaterial-based photosensitizer to active molecular catalyst
Goal: Photocatalytically produce hydrogen from neutral
water under natural sunlight
Research Interest 3:
Constructing copper-based oxygen reduction
catalysts following the blueprint of
multi-copper oxidase enzyme
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Strategy: Develop multi-nuclear copper complexes confined
in a redox-active ligand scaffold for
active oxygen reduction
Goal: Produce energy-efficient and fast oxygen reduction
catalyst that can replace platinum in
proton exchange membrane fuel cell
