​On September 25, Clarivate Analytics announced the winners of the 2025 Citation Laureate Award, recognizing a total of 22 distinguished scholars from eight countries. Among them, ZHANG Tao, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and professor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of CAS, was named a Citation Laureate in Chemistry, making history as the first scienti...

From August 19th to 20th, a strategic symposium on "Catalytic Science for Promoting Major Industrial Transformations", funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (hereinafter referred to as "NSFC") and hosted by our institute, was held at the Changxing Island Campus. Academicians Zhang Tao and Bao Xinhe served as the chairpersons of the conference.The research and consultation ...

Recently, researchers led by Prof. Tao Zhang and Changzhi Li from the Catalysis and New Materials Research Center (Group 1500), in collaboration with Prof. Yingwei Li at South China University of Technology, developed a robust atomically dispersed Cu/Ni-SA@HNC catalyst for lignin valorization. By employing a unique "preferential cleavage of Cα-Cβ bonds in β-O-4 linkages" pathway, they achiev...

  Recently, researchers from the Catalysis and New Materials Research Center (Group 1500) of DICP, including Academician Tao Zhang, Prof. Xiaodong Wang, Assoc. Prof. Chuande Huang, and Assoc. Prof. Botao Qiao, have developed an enzyme-mimicking copper-based single-atom catalyst (Cu1/CN) that enables the efficient conversion of methane into oxygenated compounds.  The direct selective oxidation o...

At the invitation of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Professor Tao Zhang paid a visit to TUM from June   14 to June 27, 2025. The visit featured a series of high-level academic interactions and collaborative discussions, markin-g a new chapter in scientific exchange between China and Germany in the field of catalysis.During his visit, Prof. Zhang delivered a well-received academic lec...

​Recently, our team led by Researcher Xiaodong Wang and Researcher Jian Lin, in collaboration with Professor Sen Lin's team from Fuzhou University, has made new progress in the research on the regulation of the outer structure of single-atom catalysts and their mechanisms of action.Since the concept of single-atom catalysis was proposed, it has become one of the research hotspots in the field ...