Biography

Anmin Zheng obtained his Ph.D. (2005) from the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics (WIPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), under the supervision of Prof. Feng Deng and was affiliated with WIPM, CAS as an assistant research fellow in the same year. In 2007, he was a visiting research fellow in Prof. Shang-Bin Liu’s lab at Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica. He was promoted to full professor in 2012. His past and current research interests have been focusing on the studies of structure and reaction mechanism of solid acid catalysts by means of experimental solid-state NMR and theoretical quantum chemical calculations.

Biography

Shang-Bin Liu is an emeritus research fellow and professor of Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS), Academia Sinica (AS), Taiwan. He obtained his M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) in the Department of Physics, College of William and Mary in Virginia, under the supervision of Prof. Mark S. Conradi. After his postdoctoral research (1985–1987), which was jointly appointed by the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (under Prof. Alexander Pines) and the Department of Geology, Stanford University (under Prof. Jonathan F. Stebbins), he was affiliated with IAMS, AS, Taiwan as an Associate Research Fellow (1987–1993) and Research Fellow (1993–2017). He was an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University (2009–2016). His past research interests include developments of solid-state NMR techniques for porosity and acidity characterization of porous catalytic and adsorptive materials as well as synthesis, modification, and characterization of novel porous carbon materials and organic–inorganic composites as catalysts, supports, and/or adsorbents for applications in energy (fuel cells, supercapacitors etc.), environment (CO2 capture, de-NOx, biosensors etc.), and conversion of biomass.

Biography

Feng Deng obtained his B.S. (1988) in Department of Chemistry, Sichuan University, M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1996) from Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics (WIPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), under the supervision of Profs. Chaohui Ye and Youru Du. After his postdoctoral research (1997–1998) in the Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University (with Prof. James F. Haw), he has been affiliated with WIPM, CAS as a full professor (1999 to present). His research interests include solid-state NMR methods and their applications to heterogeneous catalysis and chemistry of functional materials.