报告题目：Bridging the Gap in Earth-Abundant Electrocatalysts for Water Electrolysers and Fuel Cells

报告人：赵川教授，新南威尔士大学，澳大利亚工程院院士

报告时间：2026年4月28日（周二）15：00

报告地点：电化学楼C512会议室

报告人简介：赵川，澳大利亚新南威尔士大学化学院教授、澳大利亚工程院院士、澳大利亚桂冠学者、英国皇家化学会会士、澳洲皇家化学会会士及皇家新南威尔士州学会会士。现任澳大利亚全球氢经济研究中心副主任、澳大利亚ARC绿色电化学二氧化碳转化卓越研究中心首席科学家及UNSW纳米电化学实验室负责人。2002年，西北大学博士毕业，之后在奥尔登堡大学及蒙纳士大学从事博士后研究，2010年入职新南威尔士大学开启独立科研生涯。赵川教授是科睿唯安“高被引学者”，已发表论文400余篇。曾获澳大利亚电化学会最高成就奖R. H. Stokes奖章、RACI HG Smith纪念奖和新南威尔士皇家学会颁发的利弗里奇奖与讲座奖。研究专长：水分解、氢燃料电池、二氧化碳还原、水系电池和传感器

报告简介：Hydrogen holds the promise as green energy carriers for global scale storage of renewable energy, e.g., solar and wind, enabling the continuous usage of these diffusive and intermittent energy sources when used together with fuel cells. Water electrolyser and fuel cells are cornerstone technologies for the hydrogen economy, which requests highly efficient, low cost, and robust catalyst materials to reduce its current levels of energy consumption and cost. However, currently there is a gap between lab-scale research and industrial scale application, effectuated by catalysts, cell design, and operation conditions.

This talk highlights the current challenges and opportunities for water electrolysis and fuel cells, from materials and device engineering perspectives. I will showcase our efforts in developing Earth-abundant electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reactions (OER), hydrogen evolution reactions (HER) and oxygen reduction reactions (ORR), as well as operando methodologies for understanding the catalytic processes and degradations in membrane electrode assembly. The commercialisation of some our work for water electrolyser industry also will be introduced to highlight the significance of material design from atomic to macroscopic to industrial scale.