Recently, Professor Duan Xuezhi and Dr. Chen Wenyao from School of Chemical Engineering, Joint State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, ECUST, have expounded the origin of electronic metal-support interaction (EMSI) and its regulation mechanism on catalytic kinetic behavior and reaction mechanism from molecular level. The related article was published in Fundamental Research with the title of “Engineering Electronic Platinum-Carbon Support Interaction to Tame Carbon Monoxide Activation”.

This research has received carefully guidance from Academician Yuan Weikang, Professor Zhou Xinggui and Academician De Chen of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, as well as the help of Professor Lian Cheng, a specially appointed researcher of ECUST, and doctoral candidate Liu Changwei in theoretical calculation and simulation. The research has been financially supported by the National Major Research Project of National Natural Science Foundation, Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project of National Natural Science Foundation, and the Major Natural Science Project of Scientific Research and Innovation of Shanghai Education Commission.