As one kind promising clean energy, hydrogen energy has attracted worldwide attention, gradually becoming one significant route to face energy crisis. Electrochemical water electrolysis for hydrogen production plays a vital role in the hydrogen industry chain, which has lots of technical bottlenecks to be solved. Significantly, based on abundant renewable energy such as solar energy, wind energy, nuclear energy, water splitting for hydrogen production is an efficient strategy to convert distributed, fluctuant renewable energy to environmentally friendly hydrogen energy, which is easy to store and use.

Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has had another faculty member published in renowned international academic journal Advanced Functional Materials.

Recently, Associate Professor Chuanfei Guo’s team from the Department of Materials Science and Technology at Southern University of Science and Technology has made important progresses on bionic flexible electronic skins. The research results have been published in Advanced Functional Materials, Small and Advanced Electronic Materials.

Recently, the research team of Professor He Zhubing from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has published three representative papers in the top energy materials journals Advanced Materials (influence factor: 19.79) and Advanced Energy Materials(influence factor: 16.72). The latest photovoltaic conversion efficiency in the laboratory reached 21.5%, which is one of the highest reported efficiency of inverted structural perovskite solar cells. It has comprehensively promoted the development of perovskite solar cell technology.

Recently, Prof. Yongye Liang’s research group successively published 3 research papers and reported their progress on developing molecular fluorophores for bioimaging in the second near-infrared (NIR-II) window.

Recently, Prof. Yongye Liang’s research group has developed advanced electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and carbon dioxide reduction by multiscale engineering. Electrocatalysts play important roles for the applications of renewable energy. However, there are no suitable electrocatalysts with high activities, good stabilities but cost-efficient for many electrochemical conversions.

Recently，Prof. Zhouguang Lu’s group from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SUSTech has published several papers about his researches on energy electrocatalytic materials in leading journals like The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (IF：9.353, titled “Synergistic Effects of C/a-MoC and Ag for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction”) and Small (IF：8.643，titled “Synergistic Interlayer and Defect Engineering in VS2 Nanosheets toward Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction”).

Recently, Professor Xugang Guo’s group in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at SUSTech published their latest research results as a cover paper in Journal of the American Chemical Society, a top international journal in the field of chemistry (IF = 13.858). Titled “(Semi)ladder-Type Bithiophene Imide-Based All-Acceptor Semiconductors: Synthesis, Structure–Property Correlations, and Unipolar n-Type Transistor Performance”, this work reported breakthrough in n-type organic semiconductor materials (OSCs), which enabled high-performance unipolar n-type organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) application.

Recently, Associate Professor Xugang Guo’s group from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering published their latest research advance on unipolar n-type organic thin-film transistors in Advanced Materials, a top international journal specialized in materials science (impact factor = 19.791), under the title “Thiazole Imide-Based All-Acceptor Homopolymer: Achieving High-Performance Unipolar Electron Transport in Organic Thin-Film Transistors”.

Recently, Dr. Guixin Li‘s group from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from SUSTech published two papers in Nano Letters (impact factor: 12.712).