The paper written by Dr. Shaomin Zhu and Prof. Tao Zhang in our group won the first prize in the Natural Science Academic Award of Liaoning Province of 2008. This competition was organized by Liaoning Association for Science and Technology.

This paper focused on N₂O decomposition over Ir-haxaaluminate catalysts and was published in the scientific journal (Chem. Comm. 2007, 1695-1697) as an inside-front-cover article.