A ceremony to mark the employment of ZHAO Dongyuan,academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),as an honorary professor at Tongji University was held at the School of Material Science and Engineering (SMSE) on October 18th.
ZHANG Chi, dean of the SMSE, presided over the ceremony and gave his welcome speech. In his speech, ZHANG introduced Prof. ZHAO`s rich academic achievements and expressed the gratitude for ZHAO`s years of devotion to the disciplinary development in chemistry, material science, and environmental science at Tongji University.
During the ceremony, Prof. ZHAO delivered a brilliant speech onMulti-Functional Mesoporous Nanoparticles: From Symmetry to Asymmetryat the lecture hall full of highly interested audience.
ZHAO Dongyuan, a professor at Fudan University, academicianboth of the CAS andthe Third World Academy of Sciences, and Chair Professor awarded in the Changjiang Scholars Programby the Ministry of Education, specializes in zeolite molecular sieve, the synthesis of mesoporous materials in nanometer size, and technologies in such fields of energy use as catalysis, battery power, bio-energy use, and water treatment. On top of that, Prof. ZHANG has published nearly 600 papers on a variety of notable and significant international academic journals listed in the Science Citation Index (SCI), some of which have been cited over 80,000 times, in total. All the foregoing accomplishments have make him known as oneof the world`s 100 most cited chemists as well as one of the world`s most influential Chinese scientists.
