SUSTech Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Associate Professor Guo Chuanfei has worked with collaborators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to make a significant breakthrough in flexible pressure sensors. Nature Communications recently published their paper under the title, “Graded intrafillable architecture-based iontronic pressure sensor with ultra-broad-range high sensitivity.”

An interdisciplinary research team at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) led by Associate Professor Gu Meng (Department of Materials Science and Engineering) and Associate Professor Xu Hu (Department of Physics) have had their paper published in Advanced Science (IF = 15.804). Their article was titled “Sub‐3 nm Intermetallic Ordered Pt3In Clusters for Oxygen Reduction Reaction,” with an examination of ultra-nano-intermetallic compounds.

Professor Gu Meng from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has led his research group to design several experiments that have made full use of in-situ TEM technology to observe dynamic changes in catalytic structures during reactions. The results were published in top academic journals Small and ACS Nano.

SUSTech and Professor Hailiang Wang from the Department of Chemistry at Yale University have worked together in significantly improving electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide. Their paper was published in Nature under the title of “Domino electroreduction of CO2 to methanol on a molecular catalyst.”

The teams of Professor Yongye Liang from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at SUSTech and Professor Hailiang Wang from the Department of Chemistry at Yale University have worked together in significantly improving electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide. Their paper was published in Nature under the title of “Domino electroreduction of CO2 to methanol on a molecular catalyst.”

Last month, Professor Xu Baomin from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) led his research group to publish a groundbreaking paper on material genetic engineering. The results were published in top academic journal Advanced Functional Materials (IF=15.62), in a paper titled “Accelerating the Screening of Perovskite Compositions for Photovoltaic Applications through High‐Throughput Inkjet Printing.”

MSE Professor Guo Xugang has led his research team to publish several important papers in high-level journals such as Energy & Environmental Science (IF = 33.23), Advanced Materials (IF = 25.81), Advanced Energy Materials (IF = 24.88), Advanced Science (IF = 15.80) and Advanced Functional Materials (IF = 15.62).

Recently, Prof. Lu Zhouguang from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) led his research team to propose a new strategy to improve the rate capability of TiO2 anode material for SIBs by defect-induced selective surface doping. The results were published in ACS Nano, a leading nanomaterials journal, with the paper titled, “Defect-Assisted Selective Surface Phosphorus Doping to Enhance Rate Capability of Titanium Dioxide for Sodium Ion Batteries.”

Recently, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) received confirmation that it will receive funding for its first national-level major scientific research instrument development project from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under the Special Fund for Research on National Major Research Instruments in 2019. The SUSTech project is titled “Development of Microfluidic Digital Droplet Central Processor Chip and Platform System,” and will be led by Professor Xing Cheng from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Ammonia is an ideal carbon-free energy storage material owing to its high energy density (4.32 kWh/L), high weight fraction of hydrogen (17.65%), ease of liquefaction under mild conditions, and inexpensive transportation. Industrially, ammonia synthesis is realized by the energy intensive Haber-Bosch process, where nitrogen and hydrogen are reacted at high temperatures (~450 °C) and pressures (10,000 kPa) over an iron-based catalyst.