Group News

May 16, 2023

🔝 Prof. Xia has been awarded “Chinese Chemical Society Young Chemist Award” (中国化学会青年化学奖)

Congratulations to Prof. Chuan Xia for receiving the award from the Chinese Chemical Society!

December 26, 2022

🔝Our CO2 upcycling work has been selected as 2022 Top 10 scientific breakthroughs in China

Our proposed hybrid electro-biosystem can potentially enable the CO2 upcycling into various foodstuffs and valuable medicines at an industry-relevant production rate.

February 20, 2024

Prof. Xia has been elected as 2023 Rising Stars in Materials Science

ACS Materials Au recognizes early career scientists who represent the depth, breadth, diversity, and interconnectivity of materials science being conducted across the globe.

January 17, 2024

Annual party of 2023

We enjoy the evening and cherished the moments of togetherness !‍

November 15, 2023

Prof. Xia was recoganised as Highly Cited Researchers 2023 by Clarivate

Information can be found at: https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/

September 24, 2023

Congratulations to Prof. Xia on being elected as fellow of IAAM

Congratulations to Prof. Xia on being elected as fellow of IAAM and Prof. Jiang for receiving the IAAM Scientist Medal.

August 25, 2023

Congratulations to Prof. Zheng for receiving the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (优秀青年科学基金)

Congratulations to Prof. Zheng for receiving the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars!

June 24, 2023

Prof. Xia welcomes torch 'Rong Huo' back to Chengdu for 2023 FISU Games

He is honored to be selected as a torchbearer and hopes to showcase the youthfulness and vitality of our generation to the world.

June 7, 2023

Three papers have been accepted by Nature Communications

Congratulations to Yizhou, Weiqing and Jiawei for their papers accepted by Nature Communications!‍

May 19, 2023

Prof. Xia was awarded "Sichuan Youth May Fourth Medal" (四川青年五四奖章)

Prof. Xia has been awarded "Sichuan Youth May Fourth Medal" for his outstanding efforts in academic research, and for setting an example for the younger generation.

January 5, 2023

Prof. Xia has been selected as ”UESTC Person of the Year 2022“

We’re on a mission to build a carbon-neutral society and a sustainable future. — and we believe our achievements in 2022 are a huge step forward in getting us there. Our team is so grateful for all the support from everyone and we’re excited to continue building a better future with you.

December 24, 2022

Two Ph.D. Openings in Electrocatalysis for 2023 Fall

Please share this information with your friends who may be interested in this position!

December 24, 2022

Prof. Xia gave a talk at the opening ceremony for 2022

On August 29, UESTC held a grand opening ceremony for the undergraduates of Class 2022.

July 6, 2022

We are Falling Walls 2022 winners

We have been selected as the winners for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2022 in Engineering and Technology. Check https://falling-walls.com/engineering-and-technology/ for more information.

May 5, 2022

NSFC highlighted our work on CO2 upcycling

NSFC highlighted our work on CO2 upcycling, this work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (21925204,22102018,52171201,32071416,22005291)

April 29, 2022

Our work on CO2 upcycling has received wide media coverage

People's daily,Guang Ming Daily,Science Technology Daily and many main stream medias highlighted our work on CO2 upcycling. This work was in collaboration with Prof. Jie Zeng from USTC and Prof. Tao Yu from Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences.

April 13, 2022

A Warm Welcome to our Visiting Professor Jie Zeng!

We welcome Professor Jie Zeng from USTC to join our research team as a visiting professor! We are grateful for his willingness to join us and his guidance in our research activities.

March 23, 2022

Our paper is accepted by Nature Catalysis

Congratulations to Tingting and Menglu's paper accepted for publication by Nature Catalysis ! This work was in collaboration with Prof. Jie Zeng from USTC and Prof. Tao Yu from Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology.

April 22, 2022

Outdoor Group Meeting in Dayi

We held an outdoor group meeting in Dayi.

December 29, 2021

Annual party of 2021

We played room escape games and fun games, then had the raffle draw.

December 17, 2021

People's daily hightlights our work on CO2 reduction

People's daily highlights our work on CO2 reduction, this work was in collaboration with Prof. Jie Zeng from USTC and Prof. Jianping Xiao from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics.

November 25, 2021

Our paper on CO2RR has been accepted for publication by Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Chunxiao, Menglu and Jiawei's paper on CO2RR has been accepted for publication by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. We disclosed a correlation between the CO2-to-C2+ conversion and nanoconfinement effect of Cu hollow multi-shell nanostructures with tunable shell number. Congratulations!

October 28, 2021

Prof. Chuan Xia and Assoc Prof. Qiu Jiang are recognized in the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide

Professor Chuan Xia and Qiu Jiang have been included in the ranking of the world’s most-cited researchers and those who are among the top 2% of more than six million scientists worldwide.

July 15, 2021

Our paper is published by Nature Nanotechnology

Congratulations to Tingting, Chunxiao and Chenxi's paper on electrochemical CO2-to-HCOOH conversion has been publisheded on Nature Nanotechnology!

May 18, 2021

Our paper is accepted by Nature Chemistry

Congratulations to Chuan's high loading single-atom catalyst paper accepted for publication by Nature Chemistry !

April 7, 2021

Team outing at Ching Ming

We visited Dujiangyan and enjoyed a Live-Action Role Playing

March 25, 2021

Welcome all the visiting students/postdoc from USTC!

It is amazing to have such young, fresh and talented members as part of our team! Welcome Aboard!

March 23, 2021

New members join the Chuan Group!

We warmly welcome Dr. Jialin Tang and graduate student Chengbo Li to join our Group!

October 25, 2020

Hello world

Welcome to the new Group website at UESTC!