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4月7日，广东省能量转换材料和技术重点实验室（MATEC）2022年度学术委员会会议在广东以色列理工学院举办。2021年，广东省能量转换材料和技术重点实验室获广东省科技厅立项资助，是一个跨学科、高水平、国际化的重点研究平台。
作为广东以色列理工学院首个获认定的省级科研平台，MATEC获得广东省科技厅、汕头市科技局及学术界各科研院所的高度认可。由中国科学院和清华、北大、复旦、中大、厦大、南科大等全国多家著名高校院所的院士专家组成的学术委员会，与广以材料科学与工程系谭启教授所领衔的实验室团队，以及省科技厅、市科技局有关领导“云端”线下齐聚一堂，共同探讨实验室的发展前景。
广东省能量转换材料和技术重点实验室目前汇聚了33位教授和知名学者，包括中科院院士1人，国家优青2人，广东省青年珠江学者1人，广东省扬帆计划引进青年博士1人，近3年承担了国家省部级以及国外科研项目42项。作为实验室的顾问专家，广以校长、中科院院士龚新高表示，“广东省能量转换材料和技术重点实验室的建设得到学术委员会各位委员的支持，希望充分利用广以的国际人才优势，在发现科学问题上取得重要突破。”
为实现碳达峰、碳中和“双碳”目标，广东省能量转换材料和技术重点实验室探索能源材料的前沿科学问题，从机电转换、储能与光伏电池、催化转化和材料加工与表征技术四个技术研究方向发展能量转换的核心技术。“将各类能源高效地转换为可用能量，从根本上依赖于新材料技术，这也是广东省能量转换材料和技术重点实验室的建设愿景与使命。” 实验室主任谭启教授介绍了实验室的概述概况与管理方案。他指出，广东省科技厅把材料和能源确立为重要的研究方向，广以力争为汕头和广东作出贡献。
材料科学与工程助理教授王楠、材料科学与工程副教授Aleksandra Baron-Wiechec、化学工程教授钟子宜、材料科学与工程助理教授祁原深介绍了所在技术方向的研究背景、团队成员和研究方向。
在听取各方向负责人的介绍后，学术委员会的委员们对实验室的骨干队伍表示高度肯定：这是一只年轻、国际化的强大队伍！院士专家们畅谈前沿科研方向和机构管理经验，对实验室发展方向提出了恳切的建议。多位学者表示愿与实验室深入开展合作。
“MATEC和广以一样，汇聚了国内外的优秀人才，是一个朝气蓬勃的平台！”中山大学副校长王雪华对实验室的建设进展和人才队伍点了大大“赞”。他表示，广以依托国际理工名校以色列理工学院，应该充分发挥自身优势，建设有特色的一流实验室，为省地乃至国家技术发展做出贡献。
目前，实验室通过举办MATEC学术论坛，与国内知名院所、专家学者开展初步合作。3月23日，广以化学工程专业副教授何雪忠向实验室成员作题为“Co2分离用膜：从基础研究到工业应用”的学术报告。据谭主任介绍，MATEC学术论坛是广东省能量转换材料与技术重点实验室的主要学术活动之一，将持续邀请本重点实验室专家、研究生和校外专家作学术报告和交流，“我们将发挥实验室平台的特色功能和团队成员的国际联合优势，推动交流合作、人才培养，建设成为一流的广东省重点实验室。”
On Apr 7th, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion (MATEC) Academic Committee Meeting 2022 was held in Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT). Built as a cross-discipline, high-level and international key research platform, MATEC has received a research grant from Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province in 2021.
MATEC is GTIIT’s first provincial level research platform being recognized by the Guangdong government, and has won support from municipal and provincial governments, as well as the academic world. In the meeting, the academic committee, composed of specialists and scholars from top institutes and universities including the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, Sun Yat-Sen University, Xiamen University and Southern University of Science and Technology, together with MATEC team, led by Prof. Daniel Tan from GTIIT’s Materials Science and Engineering Program, and heads of relevant government departments, discussed the development of the lab.
MATEC is backed up with an elite team, consists of 33 well-known professors and scholars. In recent 3 years, the Laboratory has undertaken 42 national and international research projects. "The Academic Committee has given full support to the construction of MATEC. We hope to give full play to GTIIT’s international talents, to make breakthroughs in the scientific discoveries," said Gong Xingao, expert consultant of MATEC, Academician of CAS and Chancellor of GTIIT.
MATEC has set four research directions: electromechanical conversion, energy storage and solar cells, catalytic conversion, materials processing and characterization. "To efficiently converse different types of energy into usable ones, depends on new materials energy, which is also our vision and mission." Prof.Daniel Tan, director of the laboratory, introduced the overview and management of MATEC. He pointed out that the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province has set materials and energy as important research directions, and GTIIT is striving to contribute to Shantou and Guangdong.
Wang Nan, Assistant Professor of MSE; Aleksandra Baron-Wiechec, Associate Professor of MSE; Zhong Ziyi, Professor of CE; and Qi Yuanshen, Assistant Professor of MSE provided an overview of research directions and introduced members of MATEC.
After the presentations, members of the Academic Committee affirmed that the Lab is a young and international team with strong academic strength. Academicians and scholars gave suggestions about frontier directions of research, experience to manage an institute and the future of MATEC. Many of them also shared a willingness for further cooperation.
“Same as GTIIT, MATEC is an active platform gathering international talents!” said Wang Xuehua, Vice President of Sun Yat-Sen University. He noted that as the Chinese campus of the Technion, GTIIT should function at all its capacity to contribute to the country’s development.
The Laboratory is holding MATEC Seminar Series to cooperate with the country’s renowned institutes, experts and scholars. On March 23, Dr. Xuezhong, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at GTIIT, delivered a speech on “Membranes for CO2 Separation: from Fundamental Research to Industrial Application”. According to Prof. Tan, the Seminar, being one of the main academic events of the Key Laboratory, will invite MATEC professors, graduate students and external experts to give academic lectures and share their research results. “MATEC will take advantage of its features and international team members to facilitate collaboration and talent training.”
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