4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Auditorium between bldg. 4&5, level 0, room 0215
“Solar-induced processes: From remediating waste to recovering energy from wastes”
Presented by Senior Visiting Fellow Wey Yang Teoh, School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia.
Abstract:
Achieving sustainability in the 21st century is a herculean task that stretches just about every corner of science and technology, where energy, environmental, and food securities matter. The most pressing deadlock, based on existing solutions, is our over-reliance on fossil fuels to tackle the above issues, which in turn becomes paradoxical to the overall solution. As such, sustainable processes powered by renewables, particularly that of solar energy, are poised to become future solutions. The presentation will begin with simple concepts of semiconductor photocatalysis as a medium for harnessing solar energy and converting to redox-usable entities. Read more.
About the speaker:
Wey Yang TEOH is currently Senior Visiting Fellow (since 2018) at the School of Chemical Engineering, The University of New South Wales. Prior to this, he was Tenured Associate Professor at the School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, where he led the Clean Energy and Nanotechnology (CLEAN) Laboratory. His research is dedicated to the fundamentals of heterogeneous thermal- and photocatalysis, and particularly in solving various Energy and Environmentally-related problems. To do so, he and his group establish new strategies for rational catalysts design based on the photocharge transport, surface molecular catalysis, and photochemical conversions. He serves on the Scientific Board of HeiQ AG, a leading Swiss innovator in textiles.