​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... [more]

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 ... [more]

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... [more]