What I am Interested in 

Now we are confronting serious energy crisis and environmental pollution at the same time. Researchers are struggling to produce renewable energy and try to substitute fossil fuel energy with it. Solar energy is one promising renewable energy source and attracts huge attention, however, the use of solar energy is still challenging. My current research is focusing on environmental pollution control by chemical methods, using H₂ to reduce oxyanion contaminants (e.g., nitrate, bromate, perchlorate) in drinking water by Pd-based catalysts. As it can be seen, H₂ is used in our water treatment process, but current industrial production process of H₂ is based on fossil fuel reformation and Fischer-Tropsch reaction, which is not sustainable.

I am interested in both combining renewable energy and contamination mitigation,  especially photocatalytic or electrocatalytic production of energy-rich compounds (e.g., H₂) and contaminant removal simultaneously.

Producing renewable energy and decontaminating simultaneously will be a promising sustainable way to address energy crisis and environmental pollution.