一飞冲天

Our group mainly focuses on the research of small molecule activation related to energy, including water splitting for hydrogen and oxygen production, oxygen reduction and carbon dioxide reduction. We pay particular attention to the hydrogen-hydrogen bond formation and breaking, oxygen-oxygen bond formation and breaking processes and their influencing mechanisms during small molecule activation, as well as the electron and energy transfer accompanying the formation and breaking of chemical bonds. By designing metal complexes, we develop molecular catalytic systems suitable for water splitting mechanism research to reveal the oxygen-oxygen bond formation and hydrogen-hydrogen bond formation mechanisms during water splitting. Guided by the results of mechanism research, we construct molecular catalysts with different structural characteristics to achieve efficient molecular catalytic design strategies. Through molecular design, we realize the heterogeneous transformation of molecular catalysts and use molecular catalytic theory to guide heterogeneous catalytic research, revealing the intrinsic connection between heterogeneous catalytic and molecular catalytic reaction mechanisms, deepening the universal understanding of water splitting catalytic mechanisms, and developing water splitting catalytic systems with practical application prospects.