On September 25, Clarivate announced the winners of the 2025 Citation Laureates Award, recognizing a total of 22 distinguished from eight countries. Among them, ZHANG Tao, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and professor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of CAS, was named the Citation Laureates in Chemistry, making history as the first scientist from Chinese Mainlandto receive this recognition.
ZHANG was honored for his seminal contributions to single-atom catalysis. He was the first to coin the concept of Single-Atom Catalysis, advancing heterogeneous catalysis research to the atomic scale, laying the scientific foundation for precision catalysis, and opening an entirely new frontier in the field.
His groundbreaking research in single-atom catalysis has not only driven fundamental advances in catalysis science but also profoundly influenced several frontier interdisciplinary fields, including energy chemistry and materials science. His research has further stimulated rapid global progress in this area of research.