(I) Main features

This research direction has obvious cross-disciplinary characteristics, based on chemistry, biology, nanotechnology, electronic information and other basic science, by relying on the University’s advantageous platform for the discipline of information and electronicsand oriented at the discipline ofbasic research and engineering, involving photoelectrocatalysis based application of clean energy technology, chemical pheromone detection anditsdevices.It is interdisciplinary and combines sciencewithengineering,alsoitis expected to be widelyutilizedin environmental pollution control, extraterrestrial biological detection, public facilities safety, human health monitoring and other fields.

(II)Main research direction

1. Clean energy materials and devices

Thisresearch direction mainlyfocuses on thedesign and preparation ofnovel low-cost photocatalytic semiconductor material,by means ofcontrollingthe structure-activity relationship and electronic energy level of the catalytic materials to achieve high catalytic activity.It is aimed atachievingbreakthroughsin catalysis,materialchemistry,photoelectrochemistry,etc.,improvingthe comprehensive strength of Applied Chemistry, buildingprovincial key disciplines,andcultivatingthe collaborativeinnovationcenterofhigh-level talents’training and clean energy in Western China.

2. Sensitive materials andapplications

ChemicalPheromoneDetection and itsApplication mainlyfocuses onthe detection technology, mechanism and system integration of chemical substances related to organisms. This direction involves chemical reaction, chemical bond interaction, thermodynamics / dynamics processandthe relationship betweenit anddetection performance in chemical sensing, resistance-variationsensing, capacitance-variationsensing andfield-effect transistor sensing.It combines chemical informatics with artificial intelligence technology,itis expected to be widely used in fields such as exobiology detection, security of public facilities and human health monitoring.