报告摘要：
The combination of rising global energy demands, diminishing fossil fuel stores, and climate change has prompted intense interest in developing alternative carbon-neutral energy technologies. The capture and conversion of solar energy to chemical fuels is a promising strategy to meet this need, and an ideal approach is to drive water splitting to hydrogen and oxygen using solar energy input. In this context, a key challenge for water splitting is developing catalysts for the direct and efficient production of hydrogen from neutral water, which avoids organic additives and by-products and is completely carbon neutral. This presentation will focus on our most recent results on design and synthesis of new molecular transition-metal complexes and related molecular materials precursors and their integration into electrochemically and photochemically active systems for direct production of hydrogen from neutral water.

报告人简介：
Dr. Yujie Sun got his bachelor degree in Chemistry from Fudan University in 2005, and Ph. D from the Ohio State University in 2010. After he joined in University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2010 for his Postdoctoral Fellow Studies. His research interests lie in the field of molecular and solid-state catalysis of solar-driven water splitting. He has published 14 papers in Science, J. Am. Chem. Soc, Chem. Soc. Rev., etc, filed 1 patents.