Title: Construction and Catalytic Applications of Functional Chiral Porous Assembly Materials

Speaker: Associate Professor Zhang Yin

Time: March 27, 2026, 14:30

Location: K1628, Science and Technology Innovation Building

About the Speaker

Dr. Zhang Yin is an associate professor and doctoral advisor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), and a recipient of the National High-Level Young Talents program. She received her Ph.D. from Peking University in 2019, under the supervision of Professor Tang Zhiyong and Professor Peng Hailin. From November 2019 to December 2025, she conducted postdoctoral research with Professor Shengqian Ma (Robert A. Welch Chair) and Professor Yanli Zhao (Academician of the Singapore National Academy of Science). In February 2026, she joined the School of Nanoscience and Engineering at UCAS. Her current research focuses on the construction and application of functional chiral porous assembly materials.

She has published papers as first or corresponding author in journals including Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, Science Advances, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Advanced Materials, and Chem.

Functional chiral porous assembly materials represent a cutting-edge interdisciplinary research hotspot, with broad application prospects in catalytic separation, optoelectronic devices, biomanufacturing, quantum information, and beyond. These ordered crystalline porous materials offer efficient mass transfer and well-defined structure-property relationships, making them key representatives of next-generation chiral catalysts. They retain the high activity and high selectivity of Nobel Prize-winning chiral catalytic systems while overcoming their poor stability and difficulty in recycling. Current challenges in the field include unclear multi-functional synergy and mechanisms, with catalytic performance still lagging behind natural enzymes. Associate Professor Zhang Yin focuses on such catalytic materials, concentrating on multi-functional ordered assembly, synergistic effects, and mechanistic studies, dedicated to developing novel and efficient chiral catalysts.