Zhao Jincai (Chinese: 赵进才; born December 1960) is a Chinese environmental chemist and researcher of the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In April 1994, he obtained a doctorate from Meisei University in Japan.[1] In 2011 he was elected as an academician of CAS. He is a professor at the Institute of Chemistry, CAS; Deputy Director of Key Laboratory of Photochemistry; Deputy Director of Science Committee of Molecular Sciences Centre, CAS.[2] His research mainly focuses on the photocatalytic degradation of toxic and persistent organic pollutants. Zhao introduced TiO
2-based photocatalyst under visible light, and discovered a new way for oxygen atom transfer during photocatalytic reactions.[2]
Zhao Jincai | |
|---|---|
赵进才 | |
| Born | December 1960 Fengzhen, Inner Mongolia, China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Alma mater | Inner Mongolia University; Meisei University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Environmental chemistry |
| Institutions | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Research
editIn the early 2000s, Zhao's group reported that visible light can accelerate the degradation of organic pollutants with aqueous
solutions of iron tetrasulfophthalocyanine ([Fe(PcS)]) and H
2O
2. They also found out FeBR (Fe2+ complex of 2,2′-bipyridine) is efficient in eliminating organic pollutants such as rhodamine B (RhB), malachite green (MG) and N, N-dimethylaniline (DMA). They did several control experiments, in the dark or under irradiation, with or without irradiation. They proposed that when light is introduced, excitation of [FeIII(PcS)] can result in electron transfer from ligand(L) to Fe3+, then Fe3+ can be reduced to Fe2+. The Fe2+-L complex can react with H
2O
2 to produce HO., leading to the degradation of pollutants.[3][4]
Contributions
editZhao has published over 200 papers in international journals and obtained 20 Chinese invention patents. Zhao won many awards:
2010 Japanese Photochemistry Association Lectureship Award for Asian and OceanianPhotochemist.[5]
2005 The Second Grade National Prize of Natural Science of China (the first contributor).[5]
2002 The Award of Excellent Young Scientists of Chinese Academy of Sciences- Bayer (Germany).[5]
2002 The Fiste Grade Prize of Science and Technology in Beijing (Natural Science).[5]
2002 The Second Grade Prize Military Science and Technique Progress Prize.[5]
1999 Be selected into the first and second levels of "the National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project".[5]
1998 The Special Contribution Award from the State Council of China.[5]
1997 Distinguished Young Scientists of NSFC.[5]
1999, 2002, 2006 The Award of Excellent Advisor of Graduates of CAS.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences". 2016-03-03. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ a b "中国科学院院士文库". yswk.las.ac.cn. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ Tao, X., Ma, W., Zhang, T. and Zhao, J. (2001), Efficient Photooxidative Degradation of Organic Compounds in the Presence of Iron Tetrasulfophthalocyanine under Visible Light Irradiation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 40: 3014–3016. doi: 10.1002/1521-3773(20010817)40:16<3014::AID-ANIE3014>3.0.CO;2-M.
- ^ Ma, W., Li, J., Tao, X., He, J., Xu, Y., Yu, J. C. and Zhao, J. (2003), Efficient Degradation of Organic Pollutants by Using Dioxygen Activated by Resin-Exchanged Iron(II) Bipyridine under Visible Irradiation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 42: 1029–1032. doi: 10.1002/anie.200390264
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences". 2016-03-03. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2020-04-07.