Electronic-Structure-Modulated Cu,Co-Coanchored N-Doped Nanocarbon as a Difunctional Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction Reactions

Prof. Dr. Liyun Cao is a professor, doctor of engineering, doctoral supervisor, and academic leader in the field of “material physics and chemistry”. She is a member of the Chinese Materials Research Society and a director of the Sol-Gel Branch of the Chinese Silicate Society. She is a reviewer for many authoritative journals at home and abroad, including ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Journal of Inorganic Materials, Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, and Journal of Composite Materials. She is mainly engaged in the research of nanobattery energy materials, nanophoto electrocatalytic environmental materials, C/C composite materials, and high-temperature antioxidant coating materials. She has presided over nine scientific research projects and participated in many others. She has published two monographs on “Sol-Gel Principles and Technology” and “Fiber Reinforced Resin Matrix Composite Materials and Their Wet Tribological Properties”. She has published more than 100 papers, including more than 60 papers indexed by SCI and more than 50 papers indexed by EI. She has applied for more than 100 national invention patents, of which more than 70 have been authorized.

Prof. Dr. Jianfeng Huang is a professor, doctoral supervisor, and the leader of the “Materials Science and Engineering” discipline at Shaanxi University of Science and Technology. He is a director of the Chinese Materials Research Society, the Chinese Silicate Society, the Special Ceramics Branch and Sol-Gel Branch of the Chinese Silicate Society, the Xi’an Nanomaterials Research Association, and an executive director of the China Ceramic Industry Association. He is an expert reviewer for the National Science and Technology Awards, the National Natural Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Technology’s science and technology plan projects, and the Ministry of Education’s scientific research funds. He is mainly engaged in research on nanobattery energy materials, nanophotoelectric catalytic environmental materials, functional thin films and coating materials, advanced ceramic materials, ceramic color glazes, ceramic decoration technology, and functional composite materials. He has undertaken more than 20 vertical projects and more than 10 horizontal projects at the national and provincial levels. He has published more than 390 papers in famous academic journals at home and abroad, and more than 200 papers have been included in SCI. He has authorized more than 200 national invention patents, and more than ten patented technologies have been applied in engineering.

Prof. Dr. Liangliang Feng received her PhD from Jilin University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Materials Science at the National Key Laboratory of Hydrothermal Chemistry, Kochi University, Japan. She is currently a professor at the Department of Energy and Environmental Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include hydrogen energy material chemistry and key materials and technologies for hydrogen production by water splitting. She serves as a review expert for scientific research projects in Jiangxi Province, Anhui Province, and Heilongjiang Province, and is a young editorial board member of Chinese Chemical Letters and Exploration. As the person in charge, she is responsible for more than 10 projects, including a National Natural Science Foundation Youth/General Project, a provincial and ministerial scientific research project, an enterprise and institution-commissioned project, and a patent transformation project.