The recipient of 2016 Lee Hsun Lecture Series—Lee Hsun Lecture Award, Prof. Horia Metiu from University of California, Santa Barbara visited Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR, CAS) from June 27 to 29, 2016.

During the visit, Prof. Horia Metiu delivered a lecture entitled “Alkane activation by modified oxide catalysts”. He demonstrated the density functional theory to examine how oxide catalysts break the C-H bond to activate alkanes in the lecture. During the visit, Prof. Horia Metiu conducted academic exchange with researchers from the Catalysis and Materials Division of Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Sciences (SYNL) on the catalytic conversion of hydrocarbon molecule on carbon nanomaterial catalyst.

Prof. Horia Metiu devotes himself to quantum mechanical computations and experiments to search for new catalysts for converting natural gas or CO2 into useful chemicals. He has been made major contributions to new catalyst materials in recent years, especially for hybrid metallic oxide catalyst. He was bestowed with the American Chemical Society Division of Physical Chemistry Award in Theoretical Chemistry in 2015. Prof. Horia Metiu was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics from 1999 to 2012.

Prof. ZHANG Jian, the Deputy Director of IMR presents the plaque of Lee Hsun Lecture Series to Prof. Horia Metiu. (Imaged by IMR)

Prof. Horia Metiu delivers a lecture. (Imaged by IMR)