Admissions Major

• Master's admissions major:

• Master of academic degree: 083000| Environmental science and engineering.

• Master of professional degree: 085700| Resources and environment.

• Doctoral admissions major:

• Doctor of academic degree: 083000| Environmental science and engineering.

• Doctor of professional degree: 085700| Resources and environment.

Working experience

• 2021 - now: Professor, South China University of Technology

• 2019 - 2021: Research Scientist, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

• 2014 - 2019: Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Educational experience

• 2009-2014: Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Materials Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, China

• 2005-2009: B.S. in ChemistryNanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, China

Field of research

• Rational design, controlled synthesis and in situ characterization of transition metal-based materials for efficient electrocatalysis and fast energy storage applications

• Novel electrocatalytic reactions (oxygen reduction/oxygen precipitation, hydrogen precipitation, carbon dioxide reduction, etc.)

• In-situ spectroscopic studies for efficient electrocatalysis and fast energy storage applications (e.g. XAS and Raman, etc.)

• Mechanistic analysis combining theoretical calculations with experiments such as in-situ characterization

• Development of low-Platinum and non-precious metal catalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

• Proton exchange membrane fuel cell water management research, and high-performance single cell and cell stack preparation

• Development of electrodes and electrolytes for solid acid fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cells/electrolytic cells

• Electrochemical energy storage materials and devices (lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, air cells, etc.)

Recent research projects

• Overseas Distinguished Imported Talents (2020)

• Charles Hatchett Award (2018)

• Journal of Materials Chemistry A (Impact Factor 12.732) Top 10 Distinguished Reviewer (2016, 2017)

• The 8th China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award (2013)

Social, Society and Academic Affiliations

• Reviewer for Swiss National Science Foundation, Croatian Science Foundation, Chemical Society Review, Advanced Materials, etc.

• Served as a reviewer for more than 50 international journals, and has reviewed more than 400 manuscripts, including more than 40 as an arbitration reviewer.

Academic achievements

1. Xiang Ao, Wei Zhang, Bote Zhao,* Yong Ding, Gyutae Nam, Luke Soule, Ali Abdelhafiz, Chundong Wang,* Meilin Liu,* Atomically dispersed Fe-N-C decorated with Pt-alloy core-shell nanoparticles for improved activity and durability towards oxygen reduction, Energy Environ. Sci., 13 (2020) 3032–3040. (IF= 38.532)

2. Yunmin Zhu, Lei Zhang, Bote Zhao,* Huijun Chen, Xi Liu, Ran Zhao, Xinwei Wang, Jiang Liu, Yan Chen,* Meilin Liu,* Improving the activity for oxygen evolution reaction by tailoring oxygen defects in double perovskite oxides, Adv. Funct. Mater., 29 (2019) 1901783. (IF= 18.808)

3. Bote Zhao, Lei Zhang, Dongxing Zhen, Seonyoung Yoo, Yong Ding, Dongchang Chen, Yu Chen, Qiaobao Zhang, Brian Doyle, Xunhui Xiong, Meilin Liu,* A tailored double perovskite nanofiber catalyst enables ultrafast oxygen evolution, Nat. Commun., 8 (2017) 14586. (IF= 14.919)

4. Bote Zhao, Ran Ran, Meilin Liu, Zongping Shao, A comprehensive review of Li4Ti5O12-based electrodes for lithium-ion batteries: the latest advancements and future perspectives, Mater. Sci. Eng., R, 98 (2015) 1–71. (IF= 36.214)

5. Bote Zhao, Lei Zhang, Qiaobao Zhang, Dongchang Chen, Yong Cheng, Xiang Deng, Yu Chen, Ryan Murphy, Xunhui Xiong, Bo Song, Ching-Ping Wong, Ming-Sheng Wang, Meilin Liu, Rational design of nickel hydroxide-based nanocrystals on graphene for ultrafast energy storage, Adv. Energy Mater., 8 (2018) 1702247. (IF= 29.368)