International

　　The 6^th Asia-Pacific Catalysis Conference (APCAT-6) was held in Taipei in Oct. 13-17, 2013, and over 800 participants from 35 countries and regions attended this conference. The main topics focused include catalyst materials, energy catalysis, environmental catalysis, nanocatalysis, catalytic processes and catalyst characterizations etc.. It issued 7 plenary lectures, 15 keynote talks, over 170 oral presentations and 269 posters. More than 40 participants from our institute (DICP) made an extensive communication with others by oral presentations and posters. i.e. Prof. Xinhe Bao gave a plenary lecture with title of “Nanocatalysis: From Vision to Reality”, Prof. Can Li gave a keynote talk titled as “Fundamental Understanding of Photocatalysis: Roles of Cocatalysts and Junctions”. Meanwhile, 40 participants were granted “APCAT-6 Grants and Fellowship Program”, and 10 persons were awarded for excellent posters, among which seven persons from out institute were listed. The APCAT committee was updated during the conference, and Prof. Can Li was selected as the new president. It was also decided that the next conference (APCAT-7) will be held in Bombay, India.  

　　  The Asia-Pacific Catalysis Conference evolves from China-Japan-USA Catalysis Conference, and now becomes one specific catalysis conference in the Asia-Pacific Region, as similar to the North-American or European Catalysis Conferences. The 3^rd conference (APCAT-3) was ever organized by our institute in 2003. The Asia-Pacific Catalysis Conference was sponsored by Prof. D. Trimm from Australia, Prof. Can Li from China, Prof. S. Moon from Korea, and Prof. M. Iwamoto from Japan in 2003. The purpose is to promote communication, cooperation and development of catalysis in the Asia-Pacific region. (By Fuxiang Zhang, Nanfang Tang)