Kui Jiao is currently a chair professor at the State Key Laboratory of Engines and the executive deputy director of the National Industry-Education Platform of Energy Storage, at Tianjin University, China. He received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2011. His research interest includes fuel cell, electrolysis cell, battery, thermoelectric generator, turbocharger compressor, combustion engine and other energy conversion technologies. He has published several books and more than 200 papers in highly reputed international journals, including Nature. He served as the Chair for several international conferences such as International Conference on Energy and AI. He was granted the “National Natural Science Foundation of China— Outstanding Youth Foundation” and the “UK Royal Society—Advanced Newton Fellowship.” He has led more than 30 national and industrial projects and provided modeling and design services in the development of fuel cell engines for several major fuel cell manufacturers such as FAW, SAIC Motor, Bosch and Weichai Power. He serves as the founding editor of Energy and AI, associate editor of International Journal of Green Energy, and specialty chief editor of Frontiers in Energy Research. He is the chair of the Energy Storage Division of the International Association for Green Energy, and Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET).

 

Papers:

1.K Jiao*, J Xuan, Q Du, Z Bao, B Xie, B Wang, Y Zhao, L Fan, H Wang, Z Hou*, S Huo, Nigel P. Brandon, Y Yin, Michael D. Guiver*. Designing the next generation of proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. Nature, 595(7867), 361-369, 2021.

2.D Jin*, K Jiao*. Charging Infrastructure Intellectualization and Future of Different Automotive Powertrains. Joule, 4(8), 1626–1636, 2020.

3.G Zhang, Z Qu*, W Tao, X Wang, L Wu, S Wu, X Xie, C Tongsh, W Huo, Z Bao, K Jiao*, Y Wang*. Porous Flow Field for Next-Generation Proton

Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Materials, Characterization, Design, and Challenges. Chemical Reviews, 123(3), 989-1039, 2022.

4.L Fan, H Deng, Y Zhang, Q Du, Dennis Y. C. Leung, Y Wang, K Jiao*. Towards ultralow platinum loading proton exchange membrane fuel cells.

Energy & Environmental Science, 16(4), 1466-1479, 2023.

5.Z Niu, Valerie J. Pinfield, B Wu, H Wang, K Jiao*, Dennis Y.C. Leung*, J Xuan*. Towards the digitalization of porous energy materials:

evolution of digital approaches for microstructural design. Energy & Environmental Science, 14(5), 2549-2576, 2021.

6.Y Luo, K Jiao*. Cold start of proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 64, 29-61, 2018.

7.K Jiao, X Li*. Water transport in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 37, 221-291, 2011.

8.Y Wang, C Wu, S Zhao, Z Guo, M Han, T Zhao, B Zu, Q Du*, M Ni*, K Jiao*. Boosting the performance and durability of heterogeneous electrodes

for solid oxide electrochemical cells utilizing a data-driven powder-to-power framework. Science Bulletin, 68(5), 516-527, 2023.

9.Z Bao, B Xie, W Li, S Zhong, L Fan, C Tongsh, F Gao*, Q Du, Mohamed Benbouzid, K Jiao*. High-consistency proton exchange membrane fuel cells

enabled by oxygen-electron mixed-pathway electrodes via digitalization design. Science Bulletin, 68(3), 266-275, 2023.

10.B Wang, M Ni, K Jiao*. Green ammonia as a fuel. Science Bulletin, 67(15), 1530-1534, 2022.

11.L Fan, Y Wang*, K Jiao*. Oxygen Transport Routes in Ionomer Film on Polyhedral Platinum Nanoparticles. ACS Nano, 14(12), 17487-17495, 2020.

12.C Wu, Y Wang, Y Hou, X Li, Z Peng, Q Du*, M Ni*, K Jiao*. Reconstruction and optimization of LSCF cathode microstructure based on Kinetic

Monte Carlo method and Lattice Boltzmann method. Chemical Engineering Journal, 436, 132144, 2022.

13.J Wang, B Wang, C Tongsh, T Miao, P Cheng, Z Wang, Q Du, K Jiao*. Combining proton and anion exchange membrane fuel cells for enhancing the

overall performance and self-humidification. Chemical Engineering Journal, 428, 131696, 2022.

14.W Li, Z Bao, Q Du*, Y Xu, K Jiao*. Open-Source CFD Elucidating Mechanism of3D Pillar Electrode in Improving All-Solid-State Battery

Performance. Advanced Science, 9(13), 2105454, 2022.

15.Z Qin, W Huo, Z Bao, C Tongsh, B Wang, Q Du*, K Jiao*. Alternating Flow Field Design Improves the Performance of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel

Cells. Advanced Science, 10(4), 2205305, 2022.

16.J Liang, L Fan, T Miao, X Xie, Z Wang, X Chen, Z Gong, H Zhai, K Jiao*. Cold start mode classification based on the water state for proton

exchange membrane fuel cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10(38), 20254-20264, 2022.

17.Y Wang, C Wu, S Zhao, Z Guo, B Zu, M Han, Q Du*, M Ni*, K Jiao*. Assessing performance degradation induced by thermal cycling in solid oxide

cells. Energy Conversion and Management, 270, 116239, 2022.

18.W Huo, P Wu, B Xie, Q Du, J Liang, Z Qin, G Zhang, I Sarani, W Xu, B Liu, B Wang, Y Yin, J Lin, K Jiao*. Elucidating non-uniform assembling

effect in large-scale PEM fuel cell by coupling mechanics and performance models. Energy Conversion and Management, 277, 116668, 2023.

19.B Xie, M Ni, G Zhang, X Sheng, H Tang, Y Xu, G Zhai , K Jiao∗. Validation methodology for PEM fuel cell three-dimensional simulation.

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 189, 122705, 2022

20.Z Bao, Y Li, X Zhou, F Gao, Q Du∗, K Jiao∗. Transport properties of gas diffusion layer of proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Effects of

compression. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 178, 121608, 2021.

21.Effects of different loading strategies on the dynamic response and multi-physics fields distribution of PEMEC stack

22.A 1+1-D Multiphase Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Model for Real-Time Simulation

23.Interlink among catalyst loading, transport and performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cells: a pore-scale study

24.Development of photovoltaic-electrolyzer-fuel cell system for hydrogen production and power generation

25.Adaptive optimization strategy of air supply for automotive polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell in life cycle

26.Enhancing oxygen transport in the ionomer film on platinum catalyst using ionic liquid additives

27.Enhanced oxygen transport in ionomer films on platinum electrodes via a local electric field

28.Coupling deep learning and multi-objective genetic algorithms to achieve high performance and durability of direct internal reforming solid

oxide fuel cell

29.Numerical investigation on the feasibility of metal foam as flow field in alkaline anion exchange membrane fuel cell

30.Enhanced electrochemical and thermal behavior of lithium-ion batteries with ultrathick electrodes via oriented pores

31.Pore-scale modeling of anode catalyst layer tolerance upon hydrogen sulfide exposure in pemfc

32.Two-phase analytical modeling and intelligence parameter estimation of proton exchange membrane electrolyzer for hydrogen production

33.“3D+ 1D” modeling approach toward large-scale PEM fuel cell simulation and partitioned optimization study on flow field

34.Fundamentals, materials, and machine learning of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell technology

35.Multi-physics-resolved digital twin of proton exchange membrane fuel cells with a data-driven surrogate model

36.Three-dimensional modeling of flow field optimization for co-electrolysis solid oxide electrolysis cell

37.A comprehensive proton exchange membrane fuel cell system model integrating various auxiliary subsystems

38.Three-dimensional multi-phase model of PEM fuel cell coupled with improved agglomerate sub-model of catalyst layer

39.Multi-phase models for water and thermal management of proton exchange membrane fuel cell: A review

40.Experimental investigation on PEM fuel cell cold start behavior containing porous metal foam as cathode flow distributo