Jin cai Zhao CAS Academician, Professor 
Ph.D., Professor
Personal Experience
Birth date: 1960.12
1994: Ph. D., Meisei University, Japan
1997: Distinguished Young Scientists of NSFC
2011: CAS Academician
Professor in Institute of Chemistry, CAS; Deputy Director of Key Laboratory of Photochemistry; Deputy Director of Science Committee of Molecular Sciences Centre, CAS.
Research Fields and Interests
Novel approaches for the photooxidative remediation of environmental pollutants
Photochemical reaction mechanism of environmental pollutants
Nano-materials and photocatalysis
Photocatalytic organic synthesis
Contributions and awards
His research focuses on semiconductor photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants and the mechanism; photodegradation of organic pollutants via activation of O2 or H2O2 by transition metal complexes; photochemical cycling of iron species and the relative environmental processes; photocatalytic selective oxidation of organic compounds; photofunctionalnanomaterials. He has published over 200 papers in the international journals, such as J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Environ. Sci. Technol., over 130 of them are in the journals with an impact factor above 3.0. 20 Chinese invention patents authorized. The publications have been cited over 8800 times by other researchers. The selected awards are as follows:
2005 The Second Grade National Prize of Natural Science of China (the first contributor)
2010 Japanese Photochemistry Association Lectureship Award for Asian and OceanianPhotochemist
2002 The Award of Excellent Young Scientists of Chinese Academy of Sciences- Bayer (Germany)
2002 The Fiste Grade Prize of Science and Technology in Beijing (Natural Science)
2002 The Second Grade Prize Military Science and Technique Progress Prize
1999 Be selected into the first and second levels of “the National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project”
1998 The Special Contribution Award from the State Council of China
1997 Distinguished Young Scientists of NSFC
1999, 2002, 2006 The Award of Excellent Advisor of Graduates of CAS
Main Academic Jobs:
Be a member of:
Editorial Advisory Board of Environmental Science & Technology;
Advisory Board of Energy and Environmental Science;
International Advisory Board of ChemCatChem;
Editorial Advisory Board of ChemPhysChem;
Editorial Board of CatalysisCommunications;
Editorial Board of International Journal of Photoenergy;
International Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies;
Associate Editor of Acta Scientiae Circumstantiae (Chinese);
Associate Editor of Environmental Chemistry (Chinese);
Adjunct professor of Peking University
Adjunct professor of the Chinese University of Hong
Projects
National key scientific research Program (principal investigator), 863 Program, Key Program and International Cooperation and Exchanges Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, Major Programs of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.
Selected Publication
1．C. C. Chen; W. H. Ma; J. C. Zhao* Semiconductor-mediated photodegradation of pollutants under visible-light irradiation. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2010, 39, 4206-4219. (An invited review)
2．W. Zhao; W. H. Ma; C. C. Chen; J. C. Zhao* and Z. G. Shuai Efficient degradation of toxic organic pollutants with Ni2O3/TiO2-xBx under visible irradiation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 4782-4783. (Top paper selected by ISI Web of Knowledge, 430 citations by others)
3．Y. B. Zhao; W. H. Ma; Y. Li; H. Ji; C. C. Chen; H. Zhu; J. C. Zhao* The surface-structural sensitivity of dioxygen activation in anatasephotocatalyzed oxidation reaction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51(13), 3188 –3192. X. Chen; H.Y. Zhu; J. C. Zhao; Z. F. Zheng; X. P. Gao, Visible-
4．Q. Wang; M. Zhang; C. C. Chen; W. H. Ma; J. C. Zhao* Photocatalytic aerobic oxidation of alcohols on TiO2: The acceleration effect of a Bronsted acid. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 7976-7979. (Very Important Paper, Inside Cover Paper)
5．Y. K. Che;X. M. Yang; G. Liu; C. Yu; H. W. Ji; J. Zuo; J. C. Zhao*; L. Zang* Ultrathin n-type organic nanoribbons with high photoconductivity and application in optoelectronic vapor sensing of explosives. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132(16), 5743-5750.
6．M. Zhang; Q. Wang; C. C. Chen; L. Zang; W. H. Ma*; J. C. Zhao* Oxygen atom transfer in the photocatalytic oxidation of alcohols by TiO2: Oxygen isotope studies. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009,48, 6081-6084. (Highly Important Paper, Cover Paper)
7．M. Zhang; C. C. Chen; W. H. Ma*; J. C. Zhao* Visible-light-induced aerobic oxidation of alcohols in a coupled photocatalytic system of dye-sensitized TiO2 and TEMPO. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 9730-9733. (Hot Paper)
8．X. J. Lang; H. W. Ji; C. C. Chen; W. H. Ma; J. C. Zhao* Selective formation of imines via aerobic photocatalyticoxidation of amines on TiO2. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50(17), 3934-3937.(Very Important Paper)
9．W. H. Ma; J. Li; X. Tao; J. He; Y. M. Xu; J. C. Yu; J. C. Zhao* Efficient degradation of organic pollutants by using dioxygen activated by resin-exchanged iron(II) bipyridine under visible irradiation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 1029-1032.
10．X. Tao; W. H. Ma; Y. T. Zhang; J. C. Zhao* Efficient photooxidation degradation of organic compounds in the presence of iron tetrasulfophthalocyanine under visible light irradiation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2001, 40, 3014-3016.
