Brief Introduction 

　　The Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment and Pollution Control (LAEPC), which was originally the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry and Atmospheric Pollution Control Technology, was founded in 2019. Currently there are 24 staff in the LAEPC, including one Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 6 research professors, 6 associate professors, 10 assistant professors, 2 academic secretaries. There are also 44 postdocs and graduate students in the LAEPC.

　　Oriented to the national demands and international frontier scientific issues of regional air pollution complex, LAEPC is devoted to studying the key physicochemical formation mechanism of air pollution complex, identifying the sources and sinks of key pollutants, developing control technologies for the key pollutants and emission sources, and establishing a technologically advanced and well-conditioned R&D base, which integrates fundamental theory research and applicable technology development. The goals of LAEPC are to reveal the causes of air pollution complex and develop applicable air pollution control technology, and thus provide technical and strategic solutions for air pollution complex of facing our country.

　　The LAEPC focuses on the study of the formation mechanism of air pollution complex and control of key pollutants and emission sources through various research methods, including laboratory investigation, field observation, and theoretical simulation. The main research subjects include: 1) Physicochemical formation mechanism of haze and photochemical smog; 2) Theory and application research on diesel engine and stationary source emission control; 3) Materials and technologies for indoor air pollutant catalytic purification; 4) Sources and sinks of atmospheric trace gases; 5) Resource utilization and photocatalytic energy conversion of greenhouse gases.

　　LAEPC has undertaken 148 research projects, including the National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program) from the 10^th to the 12^th National Five-Year Plan Period; the National Key R&D Program of China during the 13^th Five-Year Plan Period; the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Major, Key Program). The LAEPC has been selected to the Innovation Team in the Key Field of Innovative Talents Promotion Plan, Missions of Ministry of Science and Technology. A series of original achievements have been obtained in the areas of haze formation mechanisms, diesel emission control and indoor air pollution control technologies, development of online monitors of trace gases. The LAEPC has published 540 academic papers, and obtained 46 authorized invention patents and 7 authorized utility patents, some of which have already been implemented in commercial application. LAEPC has won the National Technology Invention Award (China Second Class) in 2011, the National Science and Technology Progress Award (China, Second Class) in 2014, and National Natural Science Award (China, Second Class) in 2019. Eighty graduate students and postdocs have been supervised and obtained their doctoral and master’s degrees.

Research Group  

Hong He’s group – Center for Air Pollution Control Technology (CAPCT) 

Yujing Mu’s group - Atmospheric Chemistry of Trace Gas 

Changbin Zhang’s group - Materials and Technologies of Indoor Air Pollutant Purification  

Zheng Wang’s group – Greenhouse Gas Conversion and Photocatalysis Research 

Group member  

Management and support staff