About us

 
Our team develops new materials, approaches and technologies to store solar energy into renewable fuels via artificial photosynthesis. Inspired by natural photosynthesis of green plants, we design and fabricate solar-driven photo(electro)catalysis systems utilizing solar energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into hydrogen gas and carbon-based fuels. The central aim of our research program is not only to understand and exploit the complex science of photo(electro)catalysis but also to provide scalable solutions of artificial photosynthesis that would be applied in sustainable and practical solar fuel production.
 
We work at the intersection of many disciplines, including material science, chemistry, semiconductor physics, chemical engineering and chemical biology, and thus is well-suited for students and postdoctoral scholars with various backgrounds and expertise.

 
 
 
Information

Energy Conversion, Catalytic Materials Creation Engineering Wang Lab.

Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan
Tel：052-789-3250
E-mail：wang.qian(at)material.nagoya-u.ac.jp
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2026.4

【LAB】Hung (Assistant Professor), Ko (M1), Morishita (B4), and Funatedani (B4) joined the group. Welcome! To photos

2026.3

【PUBLICATIONS】Li’s paper entitled “Systematic Development of Visible-Light-Responsive d0 Transition-Metal Oxysulfide Photocatalysts” has been published in Artificial Photosynthesis🎊. To paper
【AWARDS】Qian has received the 5th Saburo Nagakura Award and the 14th Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Women Chemists (第5回長倉三郎賞および日本化学会第14回女性化学者奨励賞 ). Congratulations!🎉🎉 To photos
【LAB】Goto, Hoshiko and Yamamoto have successfully passed their graduation defense! Congratulations! 🎊To photos

2026.2

【PUBLICATIONS】Wu’s paper entitled “Engineering Bilayer Tandem Catalysts on Si-Based Photocathodes for High-performance CO₂ Reduction to Produce Methane” has been published in Advanced Materials🎊🎊. To paper
【LAB】Alumni of the Wang Laboratory gathered in China for a New Year celebration. To photo

2026.1

【AWARDS】Qian received the 5th Saburo Nagakura Award (長倉三郎賞)🎉🎉.
【AWARDS】Qian received the 14th CSJ Award for Encouragement of Women Chemists🎊🎊.
【PUBLICATIONS】Our collaborative research with Nanjing University entitled “Disruption of a hydrogen-bond network at an Si/PNMPy/electrolyte interface for accelerated ion transfer in solar rechargeable devices” has been published in Chemical Communications. To paper
【AWARDS】Sakurai (D1) won the Best Poster Award at the Third Solar Chemical Network Symposium (Southampton, UK). To photo

2025.12

【CONFERENCE】Makino (D1) presented a poster at Pacifichem 2025 held in Hawaii. To photo
【CONFERENCE】The Pacifichem 2025 Symposium "Emergent Materials and Devices for Solar Fuel Production" (MAT010) was successfully held, with Qian serving as one of the organizers. To photo
【AWARDS】Peng’s paper in Journal of Materials Chemistry A has been selected by the editors as a HOT Article.  👏👏👏 For more details

2025.11

【AWARDS】Congratulations to Peng on his paper in Journal of Materials Chemistry A being selected for the back cover.  🎊🎊 
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2025.10

【LAB】Wang and Liang joined the group as Ph.D. students. Welcome!🎊🎊🎊
【PUBLICATIONS】The paper ‘Decoration of Dual Cocatalysts on Ultra-Thin Carbon Nitride for Efficient H₂O₂ Photosynthesis’ by Peng (D3) has been published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A. To paper
【PUBLICATIONS】The review ‘Artificial photosynthetic processes using CO₂, water and sunlight: can they power a sustainable future?’ by Prof. Wang has been published in Chemical Science. To paper
【AWARDS】Prof. Wang’s Chemical Science paper is selected for the journal’s back cover — congratulations!🎉 🎉

2025.9

【AWARDS】Qian has been selected as a recipient of the JGC-Saneyoshi Research Grant (日揮・実吉奨学会 研究助成金). Congratulations!🎉 🎉 To photo
【CONFERENCE】Qian delivered a keynote lecture at the ISF Conference and participated in the Reisner Lab Alumni Event.🌍✨ To photo
【PUBLICATIONS】Our collaborative research with Chulalongkorn University has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. To paper

2025.7

【LAB】Prof. Yanbo Li (Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, UESTC) visited our group and delivered a lecture. 👏To photo
【AWARDS】Congratulations to Kim on being awarded the the Korean Scholarship Foundation  Scholarship (朝鮮奨学会奨学金)!🎉🎉

2025.6

【LAB】Dr. Christian M. Pichler (Institute for Applied Physics, TU Wien) visited our group and gave a lecture, followed by in-depth discussions. To photo
【CONFERENCE】Qian was invited to attend the 1st Materials Process Engineering Research Meeting! Group members Yuanshuo and Siwen presented their work. Wu Hao, Jianuo, Shaopeng, Sakurai, and Yuchen also participated in the meeting. To photo
【CONFERENCE】Qian was invited to give a talk at the 247th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting in Canada.🎉

2025.4

【AWARDS】Our collaborative paper with City University of Hong Kong on 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Photocatalysis published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition is among top 10 most-cited papers published by the journal in 2023! To photo
【LAB】Goto, Hoshiko, Yamamoto, Wang, Ji, Kim joined the group. Welcome!
【LAB】🎉Qian has been promoted to Full Professor!🎊🎊🎊
 

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