Recently, the research group of Professor Wang Lingzhi and Professor Zhang Jinlong from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST, made the latest research progress in the field of methane photocatalytic conversion. The research article was published in the well-known academic journal Nature communications, with the title of “High-density Frustrated Lewis Pairs Based on Lamellar Nb2O5for Photocatalytic Non-Oxidative Methane Coupling”.

The research work was completed by Doctoral Candidate Chen Ziyu under the guidance of Professor Zhang Jinlong and Professor Wang Lingzhi. This research work has been supported by the Frontier Science Center of the Ministry of Education of Materials Biology and Dynamic Chemistry, the Joint Research Center of Feringa Nobel Prize Scientists, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the international cooperation project funds of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission.