Natural materials have developed highly different hierarchical structures to efficiently capture, convert and store energy. By learning from nature, functional materials with hierarchical porosity and structures have been heavily involved in newly developed sensing, energy conversion systems. In this talk, the fabrication and characterization of hierarchically ordered nanostructured materials will be introduced. Some of their material properties will be addressed. Particularly, the applications of hierarchical nanostructured materials and device in surface enhanced Raman scattering and photo- and electrochemical catalysis will be presented.
Xinyi Zhang received his PhD in Materials Chemistry and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China from the Institute of Physics, in 2001. He then joined Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a postdoctoral research. Now，he joined Monash University, Australia in 2013. His current research interests are morphogenesis, structure and application of functional materials and hierarchically structured porous membranes for energy conversion, storage and green chemical technology.
Invited by Prof. Maojun Zheng mjzheng@sjtu.edu.cn