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Prof. Dunwei  Wang

Special Seminar

Photocatalysis for Large Scale Solar Energy Harvesting and Storage

by: Prof. Dunwei Wang

Affiliation: Professor and Margaret A. and Thomas A. '53 Vanderslice Chair in Chemistry, Chemistry Department Chair, Boston College

Date: Friday February 14, 2020

Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Location: Houston Science Center – Building 593 — Room 102

Overview

Photocatalysis for Large Scale Solar Energy Harvesting and Storage

Biography

Dunwei Wang is Professor and Margaret A. and Thomas A. ’53 Vanderslice Chair in Chemistry. He is also the elected department chair. His group studies sciences on energy conversion and storage. Ongoing projects include solar water splitting, hydrocarbon transformation by atomically dispersed catalysts, and advanced batteries, which are funded by NSF, DOE, ACS and Mass Clean Energy Center. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a Bachelor of Science in 2000 and Stanford University with a Ph.D. in 2005. He then carried out postdoctoral research at California Institute of Technology until 2007, when he started his independent career at Boston College. Among the honors Wang has received are 2006 Prize for Young Chemists by IUPAC, 2011 CAREER Award by the NSF, 2011 Catalyst Award by Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, 2012 Sloan Fellowship and 2016 JSPS Fellowship.

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