​Source: ScienceNetOn February 12, the Chinese Academy of Sciences held a press conference in Beijing to announce the recipients of the 2026 Chen Jiageng Science Award and the Chen Jiageng Young Science Award.Academician Zhang Tao, the principal contributor to the project that received the 2026 Chen Jiageng Chemical Science Award, was interviewed by China Science Daily to share his reflections...

On February 12, the Tan Kah Kee Science Awards Foundation announced the recipients of the 2026 Tan Kah Kee Science Awards and the 2026 Tan Kah Kee Young Scientist Award. Academician Tao Zhang of our institute was awarded the 2026 Tan Kah Kee Science Awards in Chemical Sciences for his project entitled “Single-Atom Catalysis.” This project achieved regulation of catalytic active sites and cata...

On January 23, 2026, the 2025 Annual Academic Exchange Meeting of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Distinguished Research Group on Single-Atom Catalysis (formerly the Basic Science Center program), led by our laboratory, was successfully held at the Xiang’an Campus of Xiamen University. Leaders from the Department of Chemical Sciences of the NSFC, Academic Leader Academi...

​  On December 13, the 22nd National Catalysis Academic Conference was held at the Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center. Hosted by Xiamen University, the conference marked the third time that Xiamen has served as the host city, making it the first city in China to host the conference three times. This event also represented the return of the conference to Xiamen after nearly 3...

Atomic Coordination Editing Achieves Ultraproductive Single-Atom Catalysts with Ultralow LoadingsA collaborative team led by Academician Zhang Tao, Researcher Wang Xiaodong, and Researcher Lin Jian from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, together with Academician Fu Xianzhi and Professor Lin Sen from Fuzhou University, has made significant progress in regulating the microenvironment arou...

“Single-Atom Catalysis” Selected as One of IUPAC’s Top Ten Emerging Technologies in Chemistry 2025    On October 27, 2025, during the opening ceremony of the World Conference on Science and Development 2025, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced the Top Ten Emerging Technologies in Chemistry 2025. Notably, Single-Atom Catalysis (SAC)—a research focus long p...