报告人：Prof. Liangzhi Kou

单位：Queensland University of Technology

报告时间：2026年9月18日 星期五 10：00

报告地点：知新楼量子报告厅

邀请人：马衍东

报告摘要：

Urea is a critical chemical for agriculture, the chemical industry and pollution control, yet current production methods are unsustainable. From theoretical studies, we fill the above identified research gap by solving two most pressing issues. 1) Designing optimal catalysts using CO and N2/NOx as feedstocks. The direct usage of CO as the reactant can bypass the competing side reactions to significantly improve the selectivity. Meanwhile, chemically more active feedstocks NOx (bond strength: 204 kJ/mol) are much easier to activate and can effectively increase the yield of urea production. 2) Developing effective strategies to optimize the urea yield. The novel catalysts have the potential to deliver improved catalytic performance and controllable reaction reactants. This could deliver significant benefits to the crop production increase, cost reduction of chemical industry, and environmental pollution reduction.

报告人简介：

Prof. Kou received his PhD from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and has held research and academic positions at Bremen University (Germany), the University of New South Wales, and Queensland University of Technology (Australia). His research focuses on first-principles simulations of low-dimensional nanomaterials, with particular interest in multi-physical coupling phenomena—mechanical, electrical, and magnetic—and their applications in energy conversion and storage, nanoelectronic devices, and catalysis.

He has received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions, including a Humboldt Research Fellowship (2012–2014), an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) (2018–2021), ARC Future Fellowship (2026-2030), inclusion among the world's top 2% of scientists (2021–2025), and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2025), JSPS invitational fellow (2026).

To date, Professor Kou has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Advanced Science, and Advanced Functional Materials. His work has garnered over 16,000 citations, with an h-index of 68.