Cheng Tang

University of Adelaide, Australia

Title: Electrocatalytic Refinery for Sustainable Production of Chemicals

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Biography

Dr. Tang has been focusing on the atomic-level design and engineering of nanomaterials for high-performance batteries and electrochemical production of fuels and chemicals. He has co-published 1 book, 1 book chapter and >70 refereed journal papers, including 1 ESI Hot paper (top 0.1 %), 19 ESI Highly Cited papers (top 1 %), and 8 cover-featured papers. These include 31 papers as the first/co-first author in flagship Materials & Chemistry journals including Adv. Mater. (9), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2), Sci. Adv. (1), Chem. Soc. Rev. (1), Acc. Chem. Res. (1), Adv. Funct. Mater. (1), J. Mater. Chem. A (5), and others. His h-index = 45 and total citations > 8000 on Google Scholar. He has been awarded the 2020 Global Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics), and was recognised as the World’s Top 2% Scientists (released by Stanford University). He was also awarded the 2019 Chorafas Foundation Award in Chemistry (only 5 winners worldwide), the 2018 CPCIF-Clariant CleanTech Award, NDNC2016 Young Scholar Award, China National Scholarship for Graduate Students (3 times), the Top-Grade Scholarship at Tsinghua University (10/33000), Academic Rookies of Tsinghua (10/33000), Tsinghua’s Person of the Year 2016 (10/45000), First Prize of Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, etc. He is highly honoured to give the commencement address at THU 2018 Graduate Graduation Ceremony. His research interests include:

1. nanomaterials including graphene, 2D materials, single-atom catalysts, 3D porous frameworks, high-entropy nanomaterials, etc. 
2. lithium-sulfur batteries
3. bifunctional oxygen reduction/evolution in zinc-air batteries
4. on-site/demand electrosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide
5. electrocatalytic nitrogen cycling (nitrogen reduction, nitrogen oxidation, nitrate reduction, etc.)
   

Research Interest

Electrocatalysis; hydrogen peroxide; ammonia; single-atom catalysts; refinery