Haijin Zhu
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Program
Office: R727
Dr Haijin Zhu obtained his PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010 with Professor Dujin Wang. He then carried out research across multiple countries and institutions including Max-Planck Institute for Polymer (Mainz Germany), Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), Deakin University (Australia), University of the Basque Country (San Sebastian Spain) and CSIRO (Australia). He is an experienced NMR spectroscopy expert and has intensive experiences in electrochemistry, polymer materials, as well as fuel cell and water electrolysis technologies. He has published over 120 SCI papers to date and has an H-index of 30 (as of Feb 2023).
In March 2023 he joined GTIIT as an associate professor leading a research group with main focus on the development of next-generation energy storage and conversion materials and technologies.
- OIPC
- electrolyte
- lithium battery
- NMR
- solid oxide electrolysis
- fuel cell
- polymer materials
D Liu, Z Xiong, P Wang, Q Liang, H Zhu, JZ Liu, M Forsyth, D Li. Ion-specific nanoconfinement effect in multilayered graphene membranes: A combined nuclear magnetic resonance and computational study. Nano Letters 2023, 23 (12), 5555-5561.
M Lechartier, L Porcarelli, H Zhu, M Forsyth, A Guéguen, L Castro, D Mecerreyes. Single-ion polymer/LLZO hybrid electrolytes with high lithium conductivity. Materials Advances 2022, 3 (2), 1139-1151.
M Arrese-Igor, M Martinez-Ibanez, E Pavlenko, M Forsyth, H Zhu, M Armand, F Aguesse, P Lopez-Aranguren. Toward high-voltage solid-state Li-metal batteries with double-layer polymer electrolytes. ACS Energy Letters 2022, 7 (4), 1473-1480.
H Zhu, G Huang, LA O’Dell, M Forsyth. New insights into decoupled cation and anion transport and dynamic heterogeneity in a diethyl (methyl)(isobutyl) phosphonium hexafluorophosphate organic ionic plastic crystal. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2021, 12 (40), 9853-9858.
G Huang, L Porcarelli, M Forsyth, H Zhu. Tuning proton exchange and transport in protic ionic liquid solution through anion chemistry. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2021, 12 (23), 5552-5557.
H Zhu, LA O’Dell. Nuclear magnetic resonance characterisation of ionic liquids and organic ionic plastic crystals: Common approaches and recent advances. Chemical Communications 2021, 57 (46), 5609-5625.
H Zhu, M Forsyth. Ion vacancies and transport in 1-methylimidazolium triflate organic ionic plastic crystal. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2020, 11 (2), 510-515.
H Zhu, A Grzelak, R Yunis, J Martín, M Forsyth. Decoupled ion mobility in nano-confined ionic plastic crystal. Materials Advances 2020, 1 (9), 3398-3405.
H Zhu, DR MacFarlane, JM Pringle, M Forsyth. Organic ionic plastic crystals as solid-state electrolytes. Trends in Chemistry 2019, 1 (1), 126-140.
H Zhang, U Oteo, H Zhu, X Judez, M Martinez‐Ibañez, I Aldalur, E Sanchez-Diez, C Li, J Carrasco, M Forsyth, M Armand. Enhanced lithium‐ion conductivity of polymer electrolytes by selective introduction of hydrogen into the anion. Angewandte Chemie 2019, 131 (23), 7911-7916.