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Australia
2022

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Zongping Shao is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering, materials science, and energy, with a particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist has published extensively in several fields, including electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced battery technologies, advancements in solid oxide fuel cells, fuel cells and related materials, advanced photocatalysis techniques, electronic and structural properties of oxides, and advancements in battery materials.

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Zongping Shao include Wei Zhou, Daqin Guan, Ran Ran, Guangming Yang, and Wei Wang.

Publications by Zongping Shao appear regularly in these venues:

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Energy & Fuels
  • Small

Significant recent publications include:

  • A membrane-based seawater electrolyser for hydrogen generation, 2022, Nature
  • Direct evidence of boosted oxygen evolution over perovskite by enhanced lattice oxygen participation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Thermal-expansion offset for high-performance fuel cell cathodes, 2021, Nature
  • Electrochemical Water Splitting: Bridging the Gaps Between Fundamental Research and Industrial Applications, 2022, Energy & environment materials
  • Intercalation pseudocapacitance in electrochemical energy storage: recent advances in fundamental understanding and materials development, 2020, Materials Today Advances

Zongping Shao has also contributed to book publications, with one book titled Materials and Technology of Clean Energy published in 2020 by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. eBooks.

Best Publications

  • A high-performance cathode for the next generation of solid-oxide fuel cells

    Zongping Shao;Sossina M. Haile

  • Investigation of the permeation behavior and stability of a Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3−δ oxygen membrane

    Zongping Shao;Weishen Yang;You Cong;Hui Dong

  • Nonstoichiometric Oxides as Low-Cost and Highly-Efficient Oxygen Reduction/Evolution Catalysts for Low-Temperature Electrochemical Devices

    Dengjie Chen;Chi Chen;Zarah Medina Baiyee;Zongping Shao;Zongping Shao

  • Research progress of perovskite materials in photocatalysis- and photovoltaics-related energy conversion and environmental treatment.

    Wei Wang;Moses O. Tadé;Zongping Shao;Zongping Shao

  • Nonradical reactions in environmental remediation processes: Uncertainty and challenges

    Xiaoguang Duan;Hongqi Sun;Zongping Shao;Zongping Shao;Shaobin Wang

  • Enhancing Electrocatalytic Activity of Perovskite Oxides by Tuning Cation Deficiency for Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions

    Yinlong Zhu;Wei Zhou;Jie Yu;Yubo Chen

  • A thermally self-sustained micro solid-oxide fuel-cell stack with high power density

    Zongping Shao;Sossina M. Haile;Jeongmin Ahn;Paul D. Ronney

  • Non-precious-metal catalysts for alkaline water electrolysis: operando characterizations, theoretical calculations, and recent advances

    Jian Wang;Yang Gao;Hui Kong;Juwon Kim

  • Recent Progress in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Applications in Electrocatalytic and Photocatalytic Water Splitting.

    Wei Wang;Xiaomin Xu;Wei Zhou;Zongping Shao;Zongping Shao

  • Recent progress on sodium ion batteries: potential high-performance anodes

    Li Li;Li Li;Yang Zheng;Shilin Zhang;Jianping Yang

  • Recent advances and prospective in ruthenium-based materials for electrochemical water splitting

    Jie Yu;Qijiao He;Guangming Yang;Wei Zhou

  • Enhancement of Pt and Pt-alloy fuel cell catalyst activity and durability via nitrogen-modified carbon supports

    Yingke Zhou;Yingke Zhou;Kenneth Neyerlin;Tim S. Olson;Svitlana Pylypenko;Svitlana Pylypenko

  • A comprehensive review of Li4Ti5O12-based electrodes for lithium-ion batteries: The latest advancements and future perspectives

    Bote Zhao;Bote Zhao;Ran Ran;Meilin Liu;Zongping Shao

  • Direct evidence of boosted oxygen evolution over perovskite by enhanced lattice oxygen participation.

    Yangli Pan;Yangli Pan;Xiaomin Xu;Yijun Zhong;Lei Ge

  • Metal oxide-based materials as an emerging family of hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts

    Yinlong Zhu;Qian Lin;Yijun Zhong;Hassan A. Tahini

  • Synthesis, characterization and evaluation of cation-ordered LnBaCo2O5+δ as materials of oxygen permeation membranes and cathodes of SOFCs

    Kun Zhang;Lei Ge;Ran Ran;Zongping Shao

  • Thermal-expansion offset for high-performance fuel cell cathodes

    Yuan Zhang;Bin Chen;Bin Chen;Daqin Guan;Meigui Xu

  • Progress in understanding and development of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3−δ-based cathodes for intermediate-temperature solid-oxide fuel cells: A review

    Wei Zhou;Ran Ran;Zongping Shao

  • Flexible Zn– and Li–air batteries: recent advances, challenges, and future perspectives

    Peng Tan;Bin Chen;Haoran Xu;Houcheng Zhang;Houcheng Zhang

  • Advanced synthesis of materials for intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells

    Zongping Shao;Wei Zhou;Zhonghua Zhu

  • Progress in solid oxide fuel cells with nickel-based anodes operating on methane and related fuels.

    Wei Wang;Chao Su;Yuzhou Wu;Ran Ran

Frequent Co-Authors

Ran Ran
Ran Ran Nanjing Tech University
Yijun Zhong
Yijun Zhong Curtin University
Moses O. Tadé
Moses O. Tadé Curtin University
Yinlong Zhu
Yinlong Zhu Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Shaomin Liu
Shaomin Liu Tianjin Polytechnic University
Jaka Sunarso
Jaka Sunarso Swinburne University of Technology
Meilin Liu
Meilin Liu Georgia Institute of Technology
Wanqin Jin
Wanqin Jin Nanjing Tech University
Meng Ni
Meng Ni Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Bote Zhao
Bote Zhao South China University of Technology

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