Team of Prof. Xie Shuifen from College of Material Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University (HQU), has made further progress in the field of metal nanocatalysis and published a paper entitled "Facilitating the C–C bond Cleavage on Sub-10 nm Concavity-Tunable Rh@Pt Core-Shell Nanocubes for Efficient Ethanol Electrooxidation" in Journal of Materials Chemistry A recently. Published by Royal Society of Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, is a top journal in the field of materials science with its impact factor of 10.733.
The research, led by Prof. Xie Shuifen (as the corresponding author) and jointly accomplished by graduate students --- Li Pingting (as the first author) from class of 2020, Liu Kai, Lv Zixi and Liao Xinyan, is sponsored by National Science Foundation of China (21771067), Outstanding Youth Project of Fujian Natural Science Foundation (2017J06005), HQU Scientific Research Fund and HQU Innovation Fund for Graduate Students.
Thesis Link:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/ta/c9ta04867g#!divAbstract