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16 April 2025
Interview with Dr. Daqin Guan—Catalysts 2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award Winner


Name: Dr. Daqin Guan
Affiliation: Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Research interests: chemical engineering, electrochemistry, energy generation, conversion and storage engineering, materials engineering, physical chemistry of materials

Below is a short interview with Dr. Daqin Guan:

1. Could you give a brief introduction to yourself to the readers? Could you introduce your current research direction and provide an update on your progress?
My name is Daqin Guan, currently a DECRA (Discovery Early Career Research Award) Research Fellow at Curtin University. I have focused on the rational design and development of oxide materials for green hydrogen production via electrochemical reactions during the past 8 years. I have rich experience in material structural analysis and operando/ex situ X-ray adsorption spectrum technologies. Over the past 5 years, I have authored 20 publications as the first author or the corresponding author in high-profile journals, including 2 publications in Nature Communications, 3 in Advanced Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, and 2 in Advanced Functional Materials. I am a regular peer reviewer for over 20 international journals. To date, I have authored 76 publications with a citation of ~5900 and an h-index of 42 (Google Scholar).
My current research direction is to design and optimize Ru-based oxides for oxygen evolution reaction in acidic solutions, which is a bottleneck reaction in the promising proton exchange membrane electrolyzer for green hydrogen production.

2. Could you share with us your emotions upon winning this award?
I am very glad to win this valuable Catalysts 2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award. I hope my ongoing review efforts can continuously help improve the clarity and quality of the manuscripts.

3. What are your tips for preparing a high-quality review report?

  • Pay attention to the formats, such as abbreviations, misspells, units, and the quality of the figures;
  • Some reliable references should be added to support the given analysis;
  • By using materials as catalysts, necessary characterizations of morphology, structure, and electronic structure should be measured and analyzed;
  • Further characterizations of morphology, structure, and electronic structure on materials after catalysis can help demonstrate the underlying catalysis mechanism.

4. We hope that the Outstanding Reviewer Award will open new opportunities for you. How does an award like this one help to support the career of a researcher such as yourself?
Yes, this valuable award helps support my research career since a good researcher should help improve the clarity and quality of the manuscripts in the same or similar fields, further boosting the development of the fields.

5. Has being a reviewer affected how you prepare your manuscripts?
 By reviewing the manuscripts of others, I will look back on my manuscripts and be the potential reviewer for my own manuscripts, which will help further improve the quality of my manuscripts.

6. What qualities do you think young scientists need?

  • Interests or enthusiasm and positive attitude for research;
  • Be rigorous for the obtained data and data analysis;
  • Have critical thinking;
  • Have innovative minds;
  • Hard work;
  • Never give up when facing problems or failure.

7. As the winner of this award, is there something you want to express or someone you wish to thank most?
I would like to thank the Catalysts journal for offering me this excellent platform to help improve the clarity and quality of the manuscripts in the same or similar fields.

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