Guest Speaker: Prof. LI Xing
Department of Chemistry
City University of Hong Kong
Prof. Xing LI is currently the inaugural Presidential Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at City University of Hong Kong. As a chemist, he received his B.S. degree from Nanyang Technological University and his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore. From 2021 to 2024, Prof. Li worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Prof. Li’s research interests span molecule-defined nanoporous materials, stimuli-responsive molecular motifs, and their applications in emerging carbon capture and energy storage technologies. His contributions to covalent organic frameworks and electrochemical carbon capture have been highlighted in several issues of Nature Collection, including “Celebrating 15 Years of Covalent Organic Frameworks”, “Synthesis and Enabling Technologies”, “Carbon dioxide removal, capture and storage”, and “Chemical Engineering Distilled”. Prof. Li is the awardee of the SNIC-Prof Lee Soo Ying Early Career Research.
Abstract
Amid the escalating climate crisis, the global boom in renewable energy sources presents a golden opportunity to electrify traditional industrial processes with clean, green electricity. However, harnessing this potential requires advanced technologies to efficiently generate, store, and utilize power from intermittent renewables, where advancements are currently limited by core challenges in chemistry and materials science. In this presentation, the speaker will delve into the rational design of redox-active organic materials to propel next-generation carbon capture solutions. By incorporating molecular motifs with redox-switchable acidities or basicities, these innovations pave the way for more efficient electrochemical carbon capture.
