On September 30, the prestigious 2024 Chinese Government Friendship Award Ceremony was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Nominated by Xiamen University, Professor Christian Amatore, the lab's Advisory Committee member,  was honored with this award and invited to attend the ceremony.Chinese State Councilor Shen Yiqin presented the Friendship Award to the honorees, pledging to prov...

The 13th International Natural Gas Conversion Symposium (NGCS13) was held at Xiamen from April 21-25, 2024. NGCS is the most influential international conference on natural gas conversion, aiming to delve into the latest scientific and technological achievements in natural gas utilization and related resources/energy advances. This international conference commenced in 1987 and was organized tr...

The 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Energy Storage and Conversion (APEnergy2023) was held at Xiamen University from November 25-28, 2023. The conference attracted over 500 experts and scholars from around the world who gathered to explore the latest research findings and advancements in the field of electrochemical energy storage and conversion. A wide range of topics were covered during the eve...

On 22 November, The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) announced their results for the 2023 selection of new academicians, recognizing eminent scientists and scholars across the nation with the highest academic honor. Three distinguished XMU faculty members have been elected as new academicians. Professor Zheng Nanfeng from our lab were selected as CA...

The Sino-German workshop: van der Waals semiconductor spectroscopy was held from October 8 to 10 at the Science and Art Center of Xiamen University, Siming Campus. The meeting was co-chaired by Prof. Kaiqiang Lin and Prof. Bin Ren from Xiamen University and Prof. John Lupton from University of Regensburg, Germany, and hosted by the State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces an...

Abstract:Benefiting from high energy density (2,600 Wh kg−1) and low cost, lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries are considered promising candidates for advanced energy-storage systems. Despite tremendous efforts in suppressing the long-standing shuttle effect of lithium polysulfides, understanding of the interfacial reactions of lithium polysulfides at the nanoscale remains elusive. This is mai...

Abstract: Phase segregation is ubiquitously observed in immiscible mixtures, such as oil and water, in which the mixing entropy is overcome by the segregation enthalpy. In monodispersed colloidal systems, however, the colloidal–colloidal interactions are usually non-specific and short-ranged, which leads to negligible segregation enthalpy. The recently developed photoactive colloidal particles...

Our lab’s Prof. Pavlo O. Dral served as an Editor and co-author of the book “Quantum Chemistry in the Age of Machine Learning” published by Elsevier on 16th September, 2022. Professors Peifeng Su, Gang Fu, and Yi Zhao of our lab also contributed to chapters in this book. The work on this book started in 2020 as an in-depth extension of the same-title concise Perspective by Prof. Pavlo O. Dra...

Among air pollutants, respirable particles such as PM10, PM2.5 and ultrafine particles are of particular concern because their small size allows them to penetrate deep into human bronchi and lungs. Straightforward and effective removal of these fine particles relies on the use of filter units consisting of multilayer fibrous or porous materials with surface treatments to either passively block ...

Prof. Su-Yuan Xie and Prof. Youzhu Yuan from the lab, together with Prof. Yuan-Gen Yao and Prof. Guo-Cong Guo of Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and engineers from Xiamen Funano New Materials Technology Co., Ltd., have made major breakthrough in ambient pressure synthesis of ethylene glycol from syngas, and moreover completed the scale-up tr...