WANG Zhida is interested in renewable energy research, especially hydrogen energy and its related electrochemistry. He earned his undergraduate degree from Tianjin University in 2002 and a PhD degree from Changchun Institute Applied Chemistry in 2010. Then he worked as Postdoctoral Fellow in Montreal University, Canada, developing biosensors by self-assembly method. In 2015, he joined in Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion.

WANG Zhida is now primarily engaged in water electrolysis and fuel cells, including developing electrocatalytic materials, devices, and systems, as well as the DFT and machine learning studies of catalytic reactions. He have led and participated in 12 hydrogen energy-related projects, including National Natural Science Foundation of China, Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation-Team Project, CAS Pioneer Program, and Guangzhou Key R&D Program. Relevant achievements have been published in J. Mater. Chem. A, J. Power Sources, Chem. Eng. J., and ACS Appl. Mater. & Inter, and have filed 21 invention patent applications and 1 PCT patent, with 16 patents authorized.

Selected Publications

1. Yi Yang, Chenglin Zhao, Zhida Wang*, Xiaokai Fan, Changfeng Yan. Synergistic Effects Of N-Doping And Mesoporous Structures in Block Copolymer-Derived Three-Dimensionally Ordered Mesoporous Carbon for PEMFC. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024, 51, 747.

2. Yi Yang, Zhida Wang*, Zheng Liang, Lisha Shen, Changqing Guo, Yan Shi, Hongyi Tan, Zhuoxin Lu, Changfeng Yan. Insight into the Evolution of Ordered Mesoporous sp² Carbonaceous Material Derived from Self-Assembly of a Block Copolymer. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, 14, 43690.

3. Zhida Wang, Yi Yang, Xiaoman Wang, Zhuoxin Lu, Changqing Guo, Yan Shi, Hongyi Tan, Lisha Shen, Shuo Cao, Changfeng Yan. A Three-Dimensional Ordered Honeycomb Nanostructure Anchored with Pt-N Active Sites via Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022, 10, 12141.

4. Zhida Wang, Yilang Mai, Yi Yang, Lisha Shen, Changfeng Yan. Highly Ordered Pt-Based Nanoparticles Directed by the Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13, 38138.

5. Zhida Wang, Yuan Gan, Yilang Mai, Yan Shi, Shuo Cao, Zhuoxin Lu, Changqing Guo, Hongyi Tan, Changfeng Yan. Synthesis of Ordered Pt Nanocube Arrays Directed by Block Copolymer Nanotemplate and Their Potential on Ethanol Oxidation Reaction. Analytical Chemistry, 2020, 92, 8046.

▪ Renewable and Sustainable Energy

▪ DFT calculation and Experimental Research of Catalytic Reactions

▪ Development of Water Electrolysers and Fuel Cells

1. Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, 2024A1515010042, Structural Design of Key Materials and Analysis of Mass and Charge Transfer Mechanisms in High-Current-Density PEM Water Electrolysis, Jan 2024-Dec 2026, 150 K Yuan, Principal Investigator.

2. Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation-Team Project, 2021B1515120075, Research on Low-Cost Green Hydrogen Production via Water Electrolysis and Key Materials, Oct 2021-Sep 2024, 3 M Yuan, Sub-project Leader.