November 19th, Prof. Li Yadong, Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, was appointed as the Honored Professor of ECUST. The ceremony was presided by Prof. Lu Guanzhong(National 973 project chief scientist), and Prof. Ma Yulu (Vice-President of ECUST), Prof. Tang Yanhui (Secretary of School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering) also attended the ceremony. After the introduction of Prof. Li Yadong by Prof. Lu Guanzhong, Prof. Ma Yulu awarded Prof. Li Yadong with the appointment letter of “Honored Professor of East China University of Science and Technology” as well as the University Badge.
In the ceremony, Prof. Ma welcomed and acknowledged the joining of Prof. Li Yadong on behalf of ECUST. She stated that, the joining of Prof. Li will further strengthen the cooperation between ECUST and Chinese Academy of Science, help promote the scientific research development as well as the disciplinary construction of chemistry of our university. Prof. Li was delighted with the significant progress of our university in recent years and indicated that he will fully support the development of chemistry and other disciplines of ECUST in the future.
After the ceremony, Prof. Li attended the 109th "Famous Teacher Forum" and gave a lecture titled “Metal nanocrystals, clusters and catalytic”. First he raised three questions:Why choose metal nanocrystals? The significance of metal nanocrystals? What are the challenges and opportunities of metal nanocrystals? About the three questions, he introduced his team’s work in the synthesis of metal nanocrystals, metal nanocrystals’ activity in small molecule activation and catalysis and the progress of metal clusters and nanocrystals. After the lecture, Prof. Li patiently answered the questions raised by presented teachers and students.
Li Yadong is a professor of Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University and he is a Doctoral tutor. He is the director of Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Academic Committee. He won National Outstanding Youth Science Fund in 2000. He was employed as a Yangtze River scholar professor of Ministry of Education in 2001 and was selected as Professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He won the First prize of natural science award of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000 and Second prize in 2001. He also won the Frist prize of Beijing science and technology Award in 2006 and the Second prize of National Natural Science Award in 2008. He once served as associate editor of Nano Research and Chinese Science Bulletin, consulting editor of Inorg. Chem. and Chem. Mater..He mainly engaged in synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials, including controlled synthesis and assembly of monodisperse nanocrystals, one-dimensional nanomaterials’ preparation and formation mechanisms, compounds and catalytic application of precious metal and other metals. 5 of his doctoral students have won National excellent doctoral dissertation and 3 have won National Outstanding Youth Science Fund. As the director of academy and chief scientist, he presided Innovative Research Group Project of National Natural Science Foundation and Nano Major Research Projects. He published over 200 papers in international academic journals like Nature, Science, JACS and Angew. Chem. He has wrote 7 reviews for journals such as Acc. Chem. Res. and Chem.Soc. Rev. His papers have been quoted over 25000 times.
