Zhao Jincai

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhao.
Zhao Jincai
赵进才
BornDecember 1960
Fengzhen, Inner Mongolia, China
NationalityChinese
Alma materInner Mongolia University; Meisei University
Scientific career
FieldsEnvironmental chemistry
InstitutionsChinese Academy of Sciences

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]

Research

In 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

Zhao 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

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ a b "中国科学院院士文库". yswk.las.ac.cn. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ 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.