报告题目：Next-Generation Chemistry: Seeing, Computing, and Designing Reactions
主讲人：Prof. Tae Wu Kim（韩国庆熙大学）
时间：2026年10月25日 下午13:30-14:30
地点：格致堂201
报告简介：
How long does it take to break a chemical bond? The answer, about a hundred femtoseconds, reveals a hidden world inside every arrow of a chemical equation. Today, X-ray free-electron lasers, synchrotrons, and ultrafast lasers allow chemists to record “molecular movies” of electrons and atoms in motion. At the same time, quantum chemistry and artificial intelligence predict structures and reactions before they are made, and chemists design molecules and materials atom by atom for specific purposes. This lecture introduces three shifts that define next-generation chemistry: seeing, computing, and designing. Using examples from catalysis for clean chemical production and CO2 conversion, I will show how concepts from undergraduate courses become the tools of frontier research. Orbitals, oxidation states, rate laws, and free energy are the same ideas we use to follow electrons in a working catalyst with element-specific, time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy. I will share one research story, from the initial question to the final mechanism, including the unexpected results that often lead to discovery. Finally, I will offer a practical roadmap for students who wish to pursue research careers.
主讲人简介：
Kim教授，是庆熙大学应用化学系助理教授，韩国浦项同步辐射光源特聘研究员。KAIST化学博士；先后在韩国基础科学研究院、美国阿贡国家实验室从事博士后研究。自独立开展科研工作以来，主攻时间分辨X射线谱学、Operando 原位表征、光催化CO2还原微观动力学，是国际上少数将超快XFEL光谱用于金属活性中心动态演化解析的青年学者。其核心学术特色为打通均相配位化学与异相光催化表征壁垒，依托同步辐射大科学装置建立飞秒至微秒全时域原位检测方法，定量解析金属配位环境、骨架结构对光生电荷分离、CO2活化路径的调控规律，在光催化动态机理领域具备国际 辨识度；累计发表 SCI 论文近百篇，总引用超1500余次，h-index 21，多篇成果发表于 Nature, Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv.、Chem. Sci.、J. Mat. Chem. A 等催化、光谱领域权威期刊， 持续产出光催化Operando机理标志性成果。
