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Welcome to visit the Surface Physics & Chemistry Group!
Our research group was established in December 2006 financially supported by "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. We are affiliated to the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). The main research of our group is focused on the studies of electronic and chemical structures, adsorption and reaction properties on the surfaces and interfaces of model catalysts and functional material devices using modern synchrotron radiation based techniques in combination with conventional surface science tools.

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Prof. Georg Held, a Professor of Surface Chemistry, University of Reading and Diamond Light Source, UK visited our laboratory from Dec. 8 to 12, 2017 and gave a seminar talk entitled "Chiral Surface Systems" on Dec. 11, 2017 at 10:00 in Room 210 of Building #3 in NSRL.
Prof. Dr. David S. Ginger, Alvin L. and Verla R. Kwiram Endowed Professor of Chemistry, Washington Research Foundation Distinguished Schlar from University of Washington, Seattle, USA visited our laboratory from Dec. 7 to 8, 2017 and gave a seminar talk entitled "Approaching Solar Cell Efficiency Limits by Controlling Interfaces in Halide Perovskites" on Dec. 8, 2017 at 9:00 in Room 210 of Building #3 in NSRL.
Dr. Qitang Fan, a former PhD student from our group, has been awarded the "Excellent PhD thesis of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2017". The detail information can be found at website: http://news.ustc.edu.cn/xwbl/201709/t20170927_287612.html or http://www.bfse.cas.cn/tzgg/201709/t20170922_4615556.html. Congratulations!
Prof. Peijun Hu, a professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the Queen's University Belfast, visited our laboratory from Sept. 17 to 20, 2017 and gave a seminar talk entitled "What can we learn from DFT calculations in heterogeneous catalysis" on Sept. 18, 2017 at 9:00 in Room 210 of Building #3 in NSRL.
Prof. Xueqing Gong from the Institute of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology visited our laboratory and gave a seminar talk entitled "Theoretical studies on the structures and processes on the surfaces of heterogeneous catalytic materials" on Sept. 18, 2017 at 10:00 in Room 210 of Building #3 in NSRL.
The former vice-president of Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, member of Academy of Europe, member of German National Academy of Sciences and member of Austrian Academy of Sciences, Prof.Dr. Hans-Peter Steinrück,visited our laboratory from June 15 to 20, 2017 and gave a seminar talk entitled "In situ studies of surface reactions - from small molecules to liquid organic hydrogen carriers" on June 16, 2017 at 10:00 in Room 210 of Building #3 in NSRL. Prof.Steinrück currently is also the guest professor of university.
Prof. Jeorg Libuda, a professor in physcial chemistry from Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, will visit our laboratory from Oct. 27 to 31, 2016 and give a seminar talk entitled "Model Interfaces in Energy-Related Catalysis, Electrocatalysis, and Materials Science" on October 31, 2016 at 10:00 in Room 210 of Building #3 in NSRL.Welcome everyone to join the seminar!

Prof. Christof Woell, Director of Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, will give an invited seminar entitle "Providing reliable reference data for chemical and physical properties of oxide surfaces: IRRAS-studies on bulk single crystal substrates " on Aug. 7, 2016 at 15:30 in Lecture Room 210 of Building #3 in NSRL.Prof. Woell has 400 peer-reviewed publications which have more than 10000 citations without self-citations. Currently, he is the Spokeperson of the Surface Physics Division of the German Physical Society and Elected member of the Council on Physical Chemistry of solid-State Bodies, Surfaces, and Characterization of Materials of the German Science Foundation (DFG).Welcome everyone to join the seminar!
Prof. Wei Chen from Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore visited our laboratory and gave an invited seminar entitled "Rational Design of Organic Nanostructure Arrays for Molecular Nano-Devices" on July 10, 2016 at 9:30 in Lecture Room 210 of Building #3 in NSRL. Prof. Wei Chen's current research interests include Molecular-scale Interface Engineering for Molecular, Organic and 2D Materials-based Electronics, and Interface-Controlled Nanocatalysis for Energy and Environmental Research.
Wei Zhang's paper entitled "Interface properties between a low band gap conjugated polymer and calcium metal electrode" has been accepted for publication in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics on Feb. 10, 2016. Congratulations!
Luhuan Wang's paper entitled "Metal-organic gel templated synthesis of magnetic porous carbon for highly efficient removal of organic dyes" has been accepted for publication in Dalton Transactions on Jan. 18, 2016. Congratulations!
Yifan Ye's paper entitled "X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Characterization of a Li/S Cell" has been accepted for publication in Nanomaterials on Jan. 11, 2016. Congratulations!
Prof. Ulrike Diebold from Institute of Applied Physics, University of Technology (TU Wien) in Vienna, Austria will visit our laboratory and give a seminar talk entitled "The Fe3O4(001) Surface as a Model for Single-Atom Catalysis" on Jan. 8, 2016 at 15:30 in Lecture Hall of Building #2 in NSRL.
Prof. Diebold is currently a divisional associate editor of the journal Physical Review Letters. She has been elected Fellow of AVS, APS, and AAAS, and is a member of the Austrian, the German, and the European Academy of Sciences. She is a recipient of several international awards, most recently an Advanced Research Grant from the European Research Council, the Adamson Award of the American Chemical Society, the Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science, and the Wittgenstein Prize, the highest science award in Austria.Welcome everyone to join the seminar!
Dr. Huanxin Ju 's paper entitled "Interplay between Interfacial Structures and Device Performance in Organic Solar Cells—a Case Study with the Low Work Function Metal: Calcium" has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces on Dec. 30, 2015.Congratulations!
Dr. Liang Zhang who is working in the Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie II, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow will visit our laboratory from December 29 to 30, 2015 and give a seminar talk entitled "Self-assembly and metalation of functionalized porphyrins on metal surfaces" on December 29, 2015 at 16:00 in Room 210 of Building #3 in NSRL.Welcome everyone to join the seminar!
Prof. Jiong Lu from Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore visited us from Dec. 21 to 22, 2015. He gave a lecture entitled "Gate-tunable Charge Control for a Single-Molecule on a Graphene Device" on Dec. 21, 2015 at 15:00 in Room 210 of Building #3 in NSRL.
Cici Wang's paper entitled "Metalation of tetraphenylprophyrin with nickel on a TiO2(110)-1x2 surface" has been accepted for publication in Nanoscale on Dec. 3, 2015.Congratulations!
Prof. Way-Faung Pong from Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Taiwan visited us from Nov. 15 to Nov. 20, 2015. He gave a lecture entitled "Studying of Nanomaterials by X-ray Microspectroscopy" on Nov. 16, 2015 at 10:00 in Room 210 of Building #3 in NSRL.
Prof. Dr. J. Michael Gottfried from Philipps-University Marburg, Germany will visit us from July 26 to Aug. 5, 2015. He will give a lecture entitled "Surface Chemistry of Porphyrins, Phthalocyanines, and Corroles" on July 28, 2015 at 10:00 in Room 210 of Building #3 in NSRL. Welcome everyone to join the seminar! Prof. Gottfried is the winner of 2014 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) International Partnership Award for Young Scientists together with Prof. Junfa Zhu.
Shanwei Hu's paper entitled "Interaction of Zr with CeO2(111) Thin Film and Its Influence on Supported Ag Nanoparticles" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemistry C on July 15, 2015.Congratulations!
Prof. Junfa Zhu attended the 2015 International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI 2015) held at Marriott Marquis Hotel - Times Square in New York City, USA from July 5-10, 2015 and gave an Oral Presentation entitled "In-situ Investigation of Metal/polymer Interfaces by Soft X-ray Spectroscopies".
Qitang Fan's paper entiled "Surface-catalyzed C-C covalent coupling strategies towards the synthesis of low-dimensional carbon-based nanostructures" has been accepted for publication in Accounts of Chemical Research on June 30, 2015, and has been highlighted by Editors' choice! Congratulations!
Three PhD students, Shanwei Hu, Yong Han and Cici Wang, have passed their oral defense for the PhD degree on June 3, 2015. Congratulations!
Master student, Xiao Pan, has passed his oral defense for the master degree on June 2, 2015. Congratulations to Xiao Pan!
Dr. Yaw-Wen Yang, a senior staff scientist in Taiwan Light Source and affiliated Professor at Chemistry Department, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, will visit us from April 13 to 20, 2015. He will give a seminar talk entitled "Soft X-ray Spectroscopic Study of Organic Field Effect Transistor" at 9:30 am on April 15, 2015 in the Room 210, Building #3 of NSRL. Welcome everyone to join the seminar!
Prof. Rainer Fink, a professor in physcial chemistry from Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany visited our laboratory from April 12 to 15, 2015 and gave a seminar talk entitled "Recent developments in soft x-ray micro spectroscopy and their application to soft matter" on April 13.
Dr. Fei Ke's paper entitled "An Efficient Room Temperature Core-Shell AgPd@MOF Catalyst for Hydrogen Production from Formic Acid " has been accepted for publication in Nanoscale on April 11, 2015. Congratulations!
An exchanged student, Ms.Julia Koebl, from Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany joined our group on February 26, 2015 and will work in our group for a half year. Welcome Julia!
Prof. Junfa Zhu was invited to attend the 2015 Gordon Research Conferences on "Chemical Reactions at surfaces" which was held in Ventura, California, USA during February 8-13, 2015. He presented an invited talk entitled "Surface-Assisted Formation of Low-Dimensional Organic Nanostructures" on February 11, 2015.
Xiao Pan's paper entitled "Surface morphology of F8BT films and interface structures and reactions of Al on F8BT films" (in Chinese) has been accepted for publication in Acta Physica Sinica on February 6, 2015. Congratulations!
Yong Han's paper entitled "Atomic-scale Insight into the Metal-support Interaction: a Case for Ag Nanoparticles on Ordered ZrO2(111) Thin Films" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C on February 4, 2015. Congratulations!
Dr. Xuefei Feng's paper entitled "Engineering the metal-organic interface by transferring a high-quality single layer graphene on top of organic materials" has been accepted for publication in CARBON on January 29, 2015. Congratulations!
Shanwei Hu's paper entitled "Ag Nanoparticles on Reducible CeO2(111) Thin Films: Effect of Thickness and Stoichiometry of Ceria" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C on January 27, 2015. Congratulations!
Qitang Fan's paper entitled "Tribromobenzene on Cu(111): Temperature-Dependent Formation of Halogen-Bonded, Organometallic and Covalent Nanostructures" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics on December 23, 2014. Congratulations!
Dr. Fei Ke's paper entitled "Facile Fabrication of CdS-Metal-Organic Framework Nanocomposites with Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity for Organic Transformation" has been accepted for publication in Nano Research on December 10, 2014. Congratulations!
Dr. Fei Ke's paper entitled "Multifunctional Au-Fe3O4@MOF core-shell nanocomposite catalysts with controllable reactivity and magnetic recyclability" has been accepted for publication in Nanoscale on November 25, 2014. Congratulations!
Dr. Yongfeng Hu, a senior scientist in Canadian Light Source, will visit our lab from Nov. 27 to 29, 2014. He will give a seminar talk entitled "Soft X-Ray Micro-Characterization Beamline (SXRMB) At the Canadian Light Source: Capabilities and Applications" on Nov. 28, 2014 at 10:00 am in Room 210, Building #3,in NSRL.Welcome everyone to join the seminar!
PhD student, Yong Han, returned back to the group after his one year stay in Pohang Light Source, Korea on Oct. 1, 2014. Welcome!
Prof. Junfa Zhu and three group members, Dr. Huanxin Ju, Xiao Pan and Wei Zhang, went to Taiwan Light Source to do experiments at 24A1 Beamline from Sept. 28 to Oct. 8, 2014.
Prof. Junfa Zhu was invited to give a plenary talk in the 3rd Cross-Strait Synchrotron Radiation Research Symposium, Sept. 21-24, 2014, Shanghai. The title of his talk is "The application of synchrotron radiation soft X-ray spectroscopies in the studies of surface and interface physical chemistry of complex systems".
Dr. Yingge Du from EMSL, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, USA visited our lab from Sept. 17 to 19, 2014. He gave a seminar talk entitled "The impact of oxygen stoichiometry on the structure and properties of MBE grown oxide thin films" on Sept. 18, 2014 at 10:00 in Room 210, Building #3,in NSRL.
One of our graduated master students, Yonghe Pan's master thesis was awarded "the 4th Excellent Master Thesis Award of Anhui Province". Congratulations to Yonghe!
Ph.D student, Fei Ke, have passed his final oral defense for the doctor degree on May 31, 2014. Congratulations to Dr. Fei Ke!
Ph.D students, Xuefei Feng and Huanxin Ju, have passed their final oral defenses for the doctor degree on May 30, 2014. Congratulations to Dr. Xuefei Feng and Dr. Huanxin Ju!
Qitang Fan's paper entitled "Covalent, Organometallic and Halogen Bonded Nanomeshes from Tetrabromo-Terphenyl by Surface-Assisted Synthesis on Cu(111)" has been accepted for publication on the Journal of Physical Chemistry C on May 22, 2014. Congratulations!
Prof. Junfa Zhu and two students, Qitang Fan and Cici Wang, went to PAL, Korea for doing experiments at 10D beamline from May 21 to May 28, 2014.
Cici Wang's paper entitled "Coordination reaction between tetraphenylporphyrin and nickel on a TiO2(110) surface" has been accepted for publication on Chemical Communications on May 20, 2014. Congratulations!
Dr. Ki-jeong Kim from the Pohang Light Source (PAL), Korea will visit our group from May 15 to May 20, 2014 under the support of NSFC-NRF joint project.
Prof. Karl-Heinz Ernst from EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland will visit our group from May 15 to May 19, 2014. He will give a seminar talk entitled "Chirality in flatland: from specific molecular recognition to chiral restructuring of metals" at 16:00 on May 16 in the Room 210, Building #3 in NSRL. Welcome everyone to join the seminar!
Dr. Zhiming Wang, from Institute of Applied Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria will visit our group from May 8 to 9. He will give a talk entitled "Atomic-scale study of the SrTiO3(110) surface" at 16:00 on May 8 in the Room 210, Building #3 in NSRL. Welcome everyone to join the seminar!
Our guest professor, Prof. Hans-Peter Steinrueck, from University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany visited our group from April 15 to April 30, 2014. He gave a 90-min lecture in the course of "Synchrotron Radiation Techniques and their Applications" to graduate students entitled "High-resolution X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy" in the morning of April 28 at lecture room 3A416.In addition, he gave a talk entitled "Surface Chemistry with Porphyrinoids" at 16:00 in the lecture room 210, Building #3 in NSRL.
Xuefei Feng's paper entitled "Understanding the degradation mechanism of rechargeable lithium/sulfur cells: a comprehensive study of the sulfur-graphene oxide cathode after discharge/charge cycling" has been accepted for publication on the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics on April 7, 2014.Congratulations!
Huanxin Ju's paper entitled "Low-Temperature Growth Improves Metal/Polymer Interfaces: Vapor-Deposited Ca on PMMA" has been accepted for publication on the Journal of Physical Chemistry C on March 5, 2014. Congratulations!
Master student, Dingling Cheng, has passed her final oral defense for the master degree on Feb. 26, 2014. Congratulations!
Dingling Cheng's paper entitled "Interaction of Oxygen with Samarium on Al2O3 Thin Film Grown on Ni3Al(111)" has been accepted for publication on the Journal of Chemical Physics on Feb. 20, 2014. Congratulations!
Qitang Fan's paper entitled "Surface-Assisted Formation, Assembly,and Dynamics of Planar Organometallic Macrocycles and Zigzag Shaped Polymer Chains with C-Cu-C Bonds" has been accepted for publication on the journal ACS Nano on December 12, 2013. Congratulations!
Prof. Junfa Zhu and two PhD students, Qian Xu and Huanxin Ju, have been to PAL, Korea to perform the collaborative research under the support of NSFC-NRF joint project from Nov. 11 to Nov. 22, 2013.
Our former PhD student, Dr. Liang Zhang's application for the German Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship was approved by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on November 19, 2013. Congratulations!
Fei Ke's paper entitled "Fe3O4@MOF core-shell magnetic microspheres as excellent catalysts for the Claisen-Schmidt condensation reaction" has been accepted for publication in Nanoscale on November 16, 2013. Congratulations!
PhD student, Qitang Fan, has won the first class award in the "Graduate Students Academic Forum of Nuclear Science and Technology,NSRL, 2013" on Nov. 19, 2013. Congratulations!
Our group has successfully organized the "1st National Symposium on Surface Physical Chemistry, 2013" with the help of Prof. Xiang Shao in Department of Chemical Physics in USTC. The symposium was held on October 20-23 in Huangshan, Anhui, China.
Liang Zhang's paper entitled "Band mapping of graphene studied by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering" has been accepted for publication on the journal Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures on October 8, 2013. Congratulations!
Ph.D student, Huanxin Ju, finished his one-year study in Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, USA and returned back on October 2, 2013.
Ph.D student, Yong Han, starts his one-year study in Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL), Korea as an exchange student under the support with PAL scholarship on Octorber 1, 2013.
Four new master students, Jingya Dai, Wei Zhang, Peiran Wei and Luhuan Wang, joined in our group from September, 2013. Welcome!
Liang Zhang's paper entitled " Probing substrate-induced perturbations on the band structure of graphene on Ni(111) by soft X-ray emission spectroscopy" has been accepted for publication on the journal Chemical Physics Letter on June 26, 2013. Congratulations!
Ph.D student, Yong Han, received an offer from Prof. Bongsoo Kim in Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL), Korea. He will start his one year study in Korea under the support by PAL from Sept. 1, 2013. Congratulations!
Ph.D student, Xuefei Feng, finished his 16 months study in Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA and returned back on June 27, 2013.
Under the support by Advanced Light Source (ALS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, Ph.D student, Yifan Ye, starts his one year study in Dr. Jinghua Guo's group in ALS from June 18, 2013.
Liang Zhang's paper entitled "Simultaneous reduction and N-doping of graphene oxides by low-energy N2+ ion sputtering" has been accepted for publication in Carbon on June 9, 2013. Congratulations!
Dr. Liang Zhang received a postdoctoral offer from Prof. Hans-Peter Steinrueck in Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie II, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany on May 28, 2013. Congratulations!
Ph.D student, Liang Zhang, has passed his final oral defense for the doctor degree on May 28, 2013. Congratulations, Dr. Liang Zhang!
Dr. Zhi Liu from Advanced Light Source (ALS), Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., USA will visit our group from May 26 to 27, 2013. He will give a talk entitled "Ambient Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy: From Gas-Solid to Liquid-Solid Interface." on May 27, 2013 at 10:00 AM in Room 210, Buliding 3 in NSRL. Welcome everyone to join the seminar and lecture!