Professor Zhang Zhiming's team focuses on cluster synthesis and green energy catalysis. They have proposed a photoinduced precision synthesis strategy, enabling the batch preparation of heterobinuclear cluster photocatalysts. They have developed co-coordination and confined-assembly synthesis methods to achieve the ordered arrangement of catalysts and photosensitizers, constructing "cluster@photosensitizer" coupled catalytic materials that significantly enhance solar energy utilization efficiency. In terms of technological innovation, the team has achieved hundred-kilogram-scale production of catalyst@light-absorbing material composites, which are applied to solar-driven high-efficiency CO2 conversion and wastewater treatment. The group has undertaken over 20 research projects, published more than 150 papers, and been granted over 10 invention patents.
