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2015. 09 We started to set up our new research lab with two empty rooms at SDU.In our significant effort to make continuous contribution to the community of Electrochemistry, We are interested in the rational design & synthesis of novel electrode materials for advanced electrochemical energy storage and conversion including :


Supercapacitors and Batteries

Limited resources of fossil fuels and the severe impact of burning fossil fuels on the environment have been increasingly driving the world towards the development of sustainable and clean energy, such as wind, tide, and solar energies. The availability of high-performance energy storage devices for storing the harvested energy plays a vital role in accomplishing this technology. Supercapacitors and batteries are examples of such energy-storage devices that have received rapidly growing interest from both industry and academia. We are going to enhance their performances via advanced electrode preparation and novel device fabrication.

Electrocatalysis:

Electrocatalysts are commonly used to lower activation energy barriers of the sluggish reactions and increase conversion rate, which may determine the performance of the renewable energy systems in terms of energy efficiency, rate capacity and cost. For example, ORR is a series of complex electrochemical reactions involving multistep electron-transfer processes and complicated oxygen-containing species. Specifically, oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is the cathode reactions used in fuel cells and metal-air batteries, while the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is central to the efficiency of metal–air batteries even beyond, such as water-splitting devices. Our goal is to develop novel electrocatalysts with good catalytic activities for various electrochemical reactions including ORR, OER, Hydrogen evolution reaction, Carbon dioxide reaction.


 
 
 
 

 


Jintao Zhang, Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineeing, Shandong University (SDU). Dr. Zhang received his Ph. D. degree in 2012 at National University of Singapore (NUS), he then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), respectively.

In August 2015, Dr Zhang joined SDU as a full professor. His research interests focus on the design of novel electrode materials/electrocatalysts for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. Till now, he has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers in leading scientific journals, such as Nature Nanotech., Science Advances, Chem. Soc. Rev., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Energy Environ. Sci., J. Mater. Chem., and is the author of 3 book chapters. These publications have earned him more than 2300 citations with H-index 21.