On July the 10th, 2019, the 106th catalysis forum was held in the conference room on the third floor of the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis. Prof. Jean-Francois Lamonier from the UCCS (Unite de Catalyse et de la Chimie du Solide), Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Lille 1, France, visited our group and gave an in-depth academic report entitled “ Engineered transition metal containing nanomaterials as efficient catalysts the low temperature oxidation of formaldehyde”. The forum was chaired by Prof. Liu, the team leader of 05T7. At the end of forum, Prof. Liu issued a certificate for “106th Catalysis Forum” to Prof. Lamonier.
In his report, Prof. Lamonier firstly highlighted the necessity of developing a highly efficient process to eliminate formaldehyde selectively. Then, the lecture focused on heterogeneous catalysis and presented the advantage to use engineered transition metal nanomaterials. At the end of the presentation, Prof. Lamonier presented his work on the synthesis of transition metal containing nanomaterials with original morphologies and improved physical properties as well as in-depth in-situ characterization (especially ToF-SIMS and XPS) of the nanomaterials to shed some light on the mechanism of formaldehyde oxidation on the catalysts' surfaces.
Jean-Francois Lamonier is currently a Full Professor in Department of Chemistry and Deputy Director of the Chevreul Institute, Lille University, France. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Lille in 1993 on the topic “Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx)”. He worked as Assistant Professor at the Littoral Opale University in Dunkirk (France) from 1996 to 2007. In 2004 he obtained the accreditation to Supervise Research (Habilitation Thesis). In 2007 he was promoted to Full Professor at the University of Lille 1 and joined the “Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide” (UCCS). Since 2015 Jean-Francois Lamonier leads the team “Catalytic Remediation (ReMCat)” of the UCCS. Since 2017 Jean-Francois Lamonier is Associate Professor in the Department of Mining Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials Laval University (Canada).
