Recently, SUSTech professor Li Hui from Department of Materials Science & Engineering and professor Wang Haijiang from Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering had cooperated with professor Xiaotao T. Bi from University of British Columbia. They jointly published a review titled “Progress in Modified Carbon Support Materials for Pt and Pt-Alloy Cathode Catalysts in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells” in Progress in Materials Science, the top review journal in Materials Science in the world.

Hydrogen proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is the most cutting-edge technology in fuel cell field. Future energy will focus on the study of zero-emission electric vehicle, household generator, and small portable electronic device. The technology of commercialization of PEMFC encountered limitations such as slow kinetics process of cathodic oxygen reduction, and high cost of platinum-based catalysts that accounting for 55% of the total expense on fuel cell technology. To overcome the bounded stability of the most advanced Pt/C catalyst, carbon material, with platinum and platinum-based catalyst as its carriers, has drawn wide attention in recent years.

The review explained the material selection and design, synthetic method, and structural characteristics of PEMFC cathode catalyst for platinum and platinum alloy. Besides, it stressed the functional mechanism of all factors as well as the effect on catalyst’s physicochemical property and functions, which would inspire further study on PEMFC.

The journal Progress in Materials Science (see http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079642516300299) was published in an authoritative review article which introduces the up-to-date development of a certain field in Materials Science and Engineering, of which the impact factor is 31.083.

The team also published “Carbon-Supported Pt-Based Alloy Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells: Particle Size, Shape, and Composition Manipulation and Their Impact to Activity” (see http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cr500519c) in an internationally noted journal, Chemical Reviews. This famous journal, known for its comprehensiveness, authoritativeness, importance and readability, enjoys the highest popularity and ranking in related fields with an impact factor of 46.568. It dedicates to issuing influential reviews and articles.