Researches
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Lithium Ion Battery
Sodium Ion Battery
Zinc Ion Battery
Potassium Ion Bateery
Lithium Metal Anode
Lithium-Sulfur Battery
Lithium-Air Battery
Zinc-Air Battery
Magnesium-Air Battery
Solid Electrolyte
Electrocatalytic Water Splitting
Brief News
Our group published work for stable lithium metal anodes at Angelw. Chimie Int. Ed.
6th, Jun., 2023
The essay titled as Catalytic Chemistry Derived Artificial Solid Electrolyte Interphase for Stable Lithium Metal Anodes Working at 20 mA cm-2 and 20 mAh cm-2 was published at Angewandte Chimie International Edition.
URL:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202305723.
The 2020 Master Candidates Acquired Master Degree
30th, Jun., 2023
Congratulations on the 2020 master candidates of Luo Kai, Lin Kaiji, Xie Yu, Luo Yuanzhi, Lin Chenhan, Liu Jingjing, Tang Yuting, Zhu Shoucong, Yang Kun, Meng Xiangcong, Zhao Hongwei, Liu Qihui successfully completed the studies for the master's phase, and graduated on time. they will work on development for battery at Guangzhou,Shenzhen,Xian,Changsha,Huizhou cities.
Focusing on the development of new energy storage and laying out the sodium ion battery industry chain
26th,Apr., 2023
On April 26th, the New Battery Research Institute for the School of Materials and Energy at Guangdong University of Technology (GBRI) and Guangzhou Development District Communications Investment Group Co.LTD(GDDC) held a signing event for strategic cooperation agreement, marking the beginning of a new cooperation between them, jointly laying out the sodium battery industry chain and entering a new track in the energy storage industry. Professor Shi Zhicong, postdoctoral fellow Shen Zhichuan of the GBRI, and Chairman Fu Qiang, General Manager Zhou Chengcheng, Deputy General Manager Fan Shuhong, and relevant personnel of the GDDC attended the signing event.
The GBRI is a research center for critical materials of high-performance batteries. It has established a research platform centered on the Smart Energy Research Center and the Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for New Energy Materials and Devices. It has a firm basis for the field of power and energy storage batteries, and has a mature soft pack battery assembly test line and battery performance evaluation platform. We have independently developed the critical design and preparation technologies of high-performance and condensed-state sodium battery core materials, and have the ability to independently research and manufacture, which have strong advantages in achievement transformation and market prospects.
2023 is the first year of mass production of sodium batteries. It is reported that China's sodium ion battery related enterprises increased by about 200 from 2010 to 2022,and the number of sodium battery patents increased rapidly, reaching 2439. It is expected that the sodium ion battery market size will be 39.8 billion yuan by 2025. Leading enterprises such as CATL, BYD, Guangzhou Penghui, and Dofluoro have also entered the sodium ion battery market, and the era of sodium ion battery industrialization is approaching.
Shen Zhichuan published a paper on lithium ion gel electrolyte
23th, Oct., 2022
Shen Zhichuan published a paper on the gel electrolyte based on free radical in-situ polymerization for lithium metal batteries in the ACS Applied Materials&Interfaces. In this work, the precursor solution containing pentaerythritol tetraacrylate (PETEA), electrolyte (TCGG) and initiator azodiisobutyronitrile (AIBN) was infiltrated into polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanospun membrane, and PETEA-TCG-PAN was prepared by in-situ polymerization. This system constructs an efficient ion transport channel by the oxygen atom of PETEA molecular chain and the nitrile group of PAN, which is conducive to the efficient migration of Li+. The tLi+and σ is 0.77 and 1.48 × 10-3 S cm-1, respectively. This advantage enables the NCM811 | PETEA-TCGG-PAN | Li battery to circulate stably for 120 cycles under the constant current charge and discharge of 2C at 30 ℃ and , and the capacity retention rate reaches 89%. Even at 6C current density, it has the 101.47 mAh g-1 discharge specific capacity . When PETEA-TCGG-PAN is matched with commercial LFP, it can stably circulate for 150 times at 0.5C, and the capacity retention rate of 90%. This work provides an effective method for building an efficient Li+ transport channel, which substantially improves the efficiency of Li+ transport.
Congratulate Kai Luo on the publication of the paper: A review of deep learning approach to predicting the state of health and state of charge of lithium-ion batteries
10th, Oct., 2022
Recently, our gourp, together with Tsinghua University and Ulster University in the UK, published a review article on the use of in-depth learning to predict the state of lithium ion batteries in the journal of energy chemistry (JCR Q1, IF=13.599). The first author is Kai Luo, a 2020 master's degree candidates. This paper reviews the current widely used equivalent circuit and electrochemical models for lithium-ion battery state estimation, introduces, compares and summarizes the commonly used shallow learning models, such as linear regression, support vector machine, decision tree, etc., and deep learning methods, including convolutional neural network Cyclic neural networks and their variants have made the latest progress in building data driven models to predict the health and state of charge of lithium ion batteries, and further emphasized the advantages and limitations of in-depth learning, as well as the measures that can be taken to address the current problem of scarce high quality data.
URL for this paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2095495622003564
Our Group has recently Finished three Works in the Electrocatalytic Water Splitting
10th, May., 2022
Hydrogen energy is a new generation of renewable energy with great potential for development. Hydrogen production by electrolysis of water is a common and efficient process at present, but the high price of traditional noble metal catalyst is not conducive to wide application for large-scale hydrogen production system. Therefore, the development of cheap, high performance, excellent stability of new electrolytic water catalyst, and then replacing the traditional noble metal catalyst, is the key problem which is urgently need to be solved in the field of electrocatalytic water splitting. In recent years, transition metal-based water electrolysis catalysts (such as Ni2P) have been proven to have excellent water electrolysis catalytic activity, while the synthesis of highly active nickel-based catalysts remains a major challenge.
Aiming at the key problems in the field of electrolytic water hydrogen production, our group developed three kinds of water electrolytic catalysts, as following NixSy@MnOxHy, Mn-NixSy /Ni2P and MnOx/NiFeP. The three catalysts showed excellent electrochemical performance, and those works was published in high-level journals of Nano Micro Letters, SCIENCE CHINA Materials, and Small, respectively.
Welcome Associate Professor Yanpeng Fu to join us
4th, Dec., 2021
Associate Professor Yanpeng Fu received her MASTER's degree in physical chemistry (electrochemistry) from Xiamen University, and her PhD degree from Helmholtz Berlin Research Center for Materials and Energy, Where she worked as a postdoctoral fellow.In 2017, he returned to China and joined Guangdong University of Technology.Professor Fu works on research of energy materials, including thin-film solar and lithium ion batteries. She is currently presiding over the youthful National Natural Science Foundation of China.
CoFe nanoparticles dispersed in Co/Fe-N-C support with meso- and macroporous structures as the high-performance catalyst boosting the oxygen reduction reaction for Al/Mg-air batteries
2nd, Dec., 2021
Congratulate that the paper written by associate prof. Naiguang Wang of our group was accepted by Joural of Power Sources.
URL for this paper:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.230707
Qinglu Fan successfully passed the doctoral dissertation defense
26th, Nov., 2021
Congratulate to Qinglu Fan in the group for passing the doctoral dissertation defense. Fan is a postgraduate and doctoral candidate in our university beginning in 2016 and 2018, respectively. During that period, he published papers in international journals such as Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Joural of Power Source so on. He received the support from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and went to The group of State University of New York at Binghamton for joint training.
3D Hexapod-shaped Co-ZIFs-S Derived Co Nanoparticles Embedded into Nitrogen and Sulfur co-Doped Carbon Decorated with Ruthenium Nanoparticles as Efficient Catalyst for Rechargeable Lithium Oxygen Battery
28th, Oct., 2021
Congratulate that the paper written by Dongdong Li of our group was accepted by the Nano Energy.
URL for this paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211285521008958
In situ growth of NiS2 nanosheet array on Ni foil as cathode to improve the performance of lithium/ sodium-sulfur batteries
17th, Oct., 2021
Congratulate that the paper written by Mouping Fan of our group was accepted by the Science China Technological Sciences.
URL for this paper:
https://www.sciengine.com/publisher/scp/journal/SCTS/doi/10.1007/s11431-021-1860-x?slug=fulltext
The critical role of inorganic nanofillers in solid polymer composite electrolyte for Li+ transportation
4nd, Oct., 2021
Congratulate that the paper written by Zhichuan Shen of our group was accepted by Carbon Energy.
URL for this paper:
https://doi.org/10.1002/cey2.108
The new progress of the potassium ion battery, the lithium metal anodes and the Li-Ni-Co-Mn cathodes
12th, Aug., 2021
Congratulations to the three students of Jinji Liang, Mouping Fan Qinglu Fan published papers on Journal of Materials Chemistry A, NANOTECHNOLOGY, ACS Applied Energy Materials. Those papers reported the new progress of the potassium ion battery, the lithium metal anodes and the Li-Ni-Co-Mn cathodes.URL for those papers:the potassium ion battery https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/TA/D1TA05579H
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The 2018 Master Candidates Acquired Master Degree
28th, Jun., 2021
Congratulations on the 2018 master candidates of Shoujie Guan, Guanzhou Li, Daoyun Lan, Zhenlang Liang, Wenli Wu, Yixiang Xiang, Wei Zhang, Chen Liang successfully completed the studies for the master's phase, and graduated on time. They are grateful to the teacher's concern and guidance in the past three years. Teachers and other students in the group also sent them a blessing that wish them to have a wonderful life. There is one person of the 8 students to study for doctorate, and the rest of the students will work on new materials related work in Guangdong, Fujian and other places. The 2017 undergraduate graduates of Yuhan Lin, Min Liang and Honghao Deng , as the quasi-master candidates who have been accepted into our group, also participated in the collection of graduation photos.
Two Papers of Graduate Students were aceepted by the JMCA Publisher
28th, Apr., 2021
The two Papers about sodium and zinc ion battery are writed by Shoujie Guan and Guanzhou Li respectively. Congratulate to them.
URL for the Two papers:
Sodium ion battery https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ta/d0ta12340d#!divAbstract
Zinc ion battery
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ta/c9ta11985j#!divAbstract
Yifeng Cheng successfully passed the doctoral dissertation defense
17th, Nov., 2020
Congratulate to Yifeng Cheng in the group for passing the doctoral dissertation defense.Cheng is a postgraduate and doctoral candidate in our university beginning in 2015 and 2017, respectively. During that period, he published papers in international well-known journals such as Nano Energy and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and so on. He received the support from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and went to The group of Prof. Zaiping Guo of University of Wollongong for joint training in Australia. It is reported that Cheng will start his post-doctoral research at Southern University of Science and Technology in late December this year.
Coupling of Triporosity and Strong Au–Li Interaction to Enable Dendrite-Free Lithium Plating/Stripping for Long-Life Lithium Metal Anodes
1st, Sep., 2020
Congratulate that the paper written by Yaohua Liang and Yuanmao Chen of our group was accepted by the journal of Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
URL for this paper:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ta/d0ta04768f#!divAbstract
Constructing Effective TiO2 Nano-Coating for High-Voltage Ni-Rich Cathode Materials for LithiumIon Batteries by Precise Kinetic Control
26th, Aug., 2020
Congratulate that the paper written by Qinlu Fan and Kaiji Lin of our group was accepted by the Journal of Power Sources.
URL for this paper:
Some Fresh Graduates and Postgraduate Students Return to School Safely
28th, Jun., 2020
According to the school's requirements for the prevention of COVID-19, some fresh graduates go back to school to deal with the formalities for leaving the school, and most of postgraduate students also return to school to continue their research work. In order to ensure the safety of teachers and students, professor Zhicong Shi decided not to eat at the restaurant of off-campus, but they had dinner in the "Smart Energy Center" conference room in the school to send graduates off and communicate the friendship between teachers and students.
The Calcium Cobaltate Anode with Hollow Fiber Network Improves the Electrochemical Performance of Lithium Ion Battery
6th, May, 2020
Congratulate that the paper written by Shoujie Guang and Qinlu Fan of our group was accepted by the journal of Science China Technological sciences.
URL for this paper:
http://engine.scichina.com/publisher/scp/journal/SCTS/doi/10.1007/s11431-020-1643-5?slug=abstract
The Multi-Component Active Catalyst Assistes Catalytic Reactions of Zinc-Air Battery
3rd, May, 2020
Congratulate that the paper written by Yangchang Mu and Guanzhou Li of our group was accepted by the Science China Materials.
URL for this paper:
Some of the Students Traveled at Whampoa Military Academy to Celebrate the New Year's Day together
1st, Jan., 2020
On the afternoon of New Year's Day in 2020, students Kai Luo, Jiawei Zhong, Jinbiao Chen, Xinyue Huang, Yifeng Cheng, Yicheng Zhong, Guide Lin, Zhenlang Liang , and Guanzhou Li (from the left in the front row of the photo) toured the old site of Huangpu Military Academy on Changzhou Island in Guangzhou city . After the visit, everyone happily took a group photo. This photo was taken by Changhong Shao and Wenli Wu.
Our Group Celebrated the Teachers' Day together
10th, Sept., 2019
On the morning of the Teacher's Day in 2019, the students in the group went to the big office to send festive blessings to the teachers, and sent flowers, fruits and gifts that were purchased spontaneously. Subsequently, teachers Jun Liu (fourth from the left in the front row of the photo), Zhicong Shi (fifth from the left in the front row of the photo) and Xi Ke (nine from the left in the front row of the photo) were happily taking photos with the students in front of the office.
In the group, teachers Liu Liying and Wang Naiguang who went abroad for academic exchanges, and some students who go out for scientific experiments could not be present.
Associate Professor Xi Ke Led the Team to Xi 'an to Participate in the Seminar of National Key R&D Program
10th, Jul., 2019
Professor Zhicong Shi was meeting at school due to official business and entrusted that associate professor Xi Ke led several master's degree candidates working on lithium-sulfur battery-related topics in the group to go to Xi’an city to participate in the discussions for the national key r&d program "Key technology research and loading demonstration of lithium-sulfur power battery of high safety, long life, high specific capacity”. At the meeting, associate professor Ke conducted in-depth exchanges with the scholars on the research progress and next steps of the sub-project of second project for the program. Yuanmao Chen, a master's degree candidates who participated in the conference, said he learned a lot from it.
