While visiting Singapore, I had the opportunity to meet Prof. Soo at Nanyang Technological University (LINK), visit his laboratory on innovative photosynthesis and share our recent advances in solar driven chemistry in an invited seminar.
Prof. Soo leads the group innovated photosynthesis that endeavors to tackle problems such as biomass valorization and plastic recycling using photoredox systems. In other words, they engineer novel photoredox systems to finely tune their reactivity. In such a way, they can directly funnel the sunlight to perform very specific chemical transformations.
Prof. Soo [...] endeavors to tackle problems such as biomass valorization and plastic recycling using photoredox systems.
Personally, I found the ambitions of the group very compelling, with a clear strategy and with a very clear objective, that is, to solve the many problems on sustainability that they experience on a daily basis. My talk “Reimagining Direct Solar Fuel Production using Semiconductor Photoelectrochemistry” reviewed our recent advances in solar water splitting and the most recent solar driven transformations we are working on. After the talk, the Q&A mostly revolved around the fabrication of the materials and how to modulate and improve the photo(electro)catalytic activity. Overall, Prof. Han Sen was extremely welcoming and an excellent host, and I do appreciate that he shared his personal vision on the field of solar driven chemistry.
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