7月10日，美国阿克隆大学Steven S. C. Chuang教授访问国重室，并为我所师生作了题为Investigation of Photocatalytic Reaction Mechanisms by In Situ Infrared Spectroscopy的学术报告。

       Dr. Steven S. C. Chuang is Professor of Polymer Science and the Director of the FirstEnergy Advanced Energy Research Center at the University of Akron.  This center was established in 2009 with the financial support from FirstEnergy Corp.  This center is committed to basic research that is needed to develop large scale carbon capture processes and coal-based fuel cells.  His research programs focus on (i) developing a fundamental understanding of the reactivity of adsorbed species and its associated sites and (ii) scaling up of catalytic and adsorption processes form the laboratory scale to the pilot scale.   Professor Chuang received his Diploma from National Taipei Inst. of Tech in 1977, MS from New Jersey Inst. of Tech in 1982, and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985.  He served as Chair of Chemical Engineering in 1997-2005 at Akron and moved to Polymer Science in 2011.