Group News

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 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.

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 26, 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.

October 28, 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.

May 5, 2022

Outdoor Group Meeting in Dayi

We held an outdoor group meeting in Dayi.

April 22, 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.

April 22, 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

Annual party of 2021

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

April 22, 2022

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.

April 22, 2022

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!

April 22, 2022

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.

April 22, 2022

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!

April 22, 2022

Our paper is accepted by Nature Chemistry

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

April 22, 2022

Team outing at Ching Ming

We visited Dujiangyan and enjoyed a Live-Action Role Playing

April 22, 2022

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!

April 22, 2022

New members join the Chuan Group!

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

April 22, 2022

Hello world

Welcome to the new Group website at UESTC!