Gen Huang (黄根)

Email: genhuang@xmu.edu.cn

EDUCATION AND WORKING EXPERIENCE

2025.06~Present, Assistant Professor, College of Energy, Xiamen University

2023-2025, Postdoc Fellow, Institute of Micro-process Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ing. habil. Roland Dittmeyer

2022~2023, Postdoc Fellow, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University. Supervisor: Prof. Shuang-yin Wang (王双印教授)

2017.09-2022.06, Ph.D., College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University. Supervisor: Prof. Shuang-yin Wang (王双印教授)

2013.09-2017.06 B.S., College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Supervisor: Prof. Xiao-gang Zhang (张校刚教授)

RESEARCH AREAS

Electrocatalysis of Small Molecules, High-Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, and Coupled Synergistic Thermo-Electrocatalysis toward High-Value Chemical Production

HONORS AND AWARDS

Fujian Provincial High-Level Talent Category C (2025)

First Prize for the Poster of Sino-German Forum on New Energy, New Materials and Biological Manufacturing (2024)

Sino-German Postdoctoral Exchange Program (2022)

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICAATIONS

1. Gen Huang^#, Yingying Li^#, Li Tao*, Zhifeng Huang, Zhijie Kong, Chao Xie, Shiqian Du, Tehua Wang, Yujie Wu, Qie Liu, Dongcai Zhang, Jiaqi Lin, Miaoyu Li, Jun Wang, Jin Zhang, Shanfu Lu, Yi Cheng, Shuangyin Wang*. Durable High-Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells Enabled by the Working-Temperature-Matching Palladium-Hydrogen Buffer Layer, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 135, e202215177.

2. Yujie Wu^#, Gen Huang^#, Shiqian Du, Miaoyu Li, Qie Liu, Yangyang Zhou, Zuyao Jiang, Xiaorong Zhu*, Yuqing Wang, Tehua Wang, Li Tao*, Shuangyin Wang*. Electrocatalysis Boosts the Methanol Thermocatalytic Dehydrogenation for High-Purity H2 and CO Production. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 9657-9664.

3. Gen Huang^#, Yujie Wu^#, Yingying Li^#, Shiqian Du, Qie Liu, Miaoyu Li, Dongcai Zhang, Zuyao Jiang, Siyu Zhong, Shanfu Lu, Li Tao*, Shuangyin Wang. Lattice Hydrogen Boosts CO Tolerance of Pd Anode Catalysts in High‐Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2025, 35, 2415358.

4. Gen Huang, Yingying Li, Shiqian Du, Yujie Wu, Ru Chen, Jin Zhang, Yi Cheng*, Shanfu Lu*, Li Tao*, Shuangyin Wang*. Silica-facilitated proton transfer for high-temperature proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. Sci. China Chem., 2021, 64, 2203-2211.

5. Gen Huang^#, Yingying Li^#, Ru Chen, Zhaohui Xiao, Shiqian Du, Yucheng Huang, Chao Xie, Chungli Dong, Haibo Yi*, Shuangyin Wang*, Electrochemically formed PtFeNi alloy nanoparticles on defective NiFe LDHs with charge transfer for efficient water splitting. Chin. J. Catal., 2022, 43,1101–11103.

6. Gen Huang^#, Zhaohui Xiao^#, Ru Chen*, and Shuangyin Wang*. Defect engineering of cobalt-based materials for electrocatalytic water splitting. ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 2018, 6, 15954-15969.

7. Yingying Li^#, Gen Huang^#, Yimin Jiang, Chongyang Ma, Yuxuan Lu, Shuangyin Wang, Yuqin Zou*. Theoretical Insights into Facet-Dependent Activity and Selectivity of Cu Catalysts in Electrochemical Furfural Reduction. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2023, 127, 21989-21998.

8. Yujie Wu^#, Xiaorong, Zhu^#, Shiqian Du, Gen Huang, Bo Zhou, Yuxuan Lu, Yafei Li, Sanping Jiang, Li Tao, Shuangyin Wang, Promoted hydrogen and acetaldehyde production from alcohol dehydrogenation enabled by electrochemical hydrogen pumps. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 120, e2300625120.