Invited Speaker：Prof.John Irvine
Report Title: Interfacial Engineering in Solid Oxide Cells
Time: 10:00 a.m., September 14, 2026
Location: Xingqing Campus, Zhongying Building, Meeting Room 1(兴庆校区仲英楼第一会议室)
Introduction:
John Irvine is Professor of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. He has established a significant international research grouping investigating fundamental electrochemistry, solid state chemistry and materials science addressing critical energy problems. This research is driven both by the need to solve the current environmental and energy supply problems facing mankind and an interest in new science that challenges conventional assumptions.
The quality and impact of this research has been recognised by a number of national and international awards, most recently the Hughes medal from the Royal Society in 2021 and the Lord Kelvin Medal from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018. He is a Fellow of both The Electrochemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of the Academia Europea. His impact has been recognised in the 2024 King’s Birthday honours list as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for Services to the Green Economy. Since 2012, he has published 14 Nature family papers. He has strong international standing having held senior visiting appointments in the US, Australia and China.
The quality and impact of Irvine’s research has been recognised by a number of national and international awards, including the honour of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire(CBE) in the Kings Birthday Honours List 2024, the Royal Society’s Hughes Medal in 2021, the Lord Kelvin Medal from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018, the Schönbeim gold medal from the European Fuel Cell Forum in 2016, the RSC Sustainable Energy Award in 2015, and earlier RSC recognition by being awarded the Bacon and Beilby awards.
Irvine has over 600 publications and has an WoS h-index of 84. He has strong international standing having held senior visiting appointments in the US, Australia and China and has strong links with a number of leading laboratories across the Chinese Academy of Science including being Thousand Talents professor at Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter and an Elected member of Academia Europaea.
Irvine is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Physics Energy. The first edition was published in November 2018 accompanied by an exclusive interview with John; Fuelling the Future.
Abstract:
The key technical challenges that fuel cell developers need to address in advancing their technology are performance, durability and cost. All three need to be achieved in parallel; however, there is often competitive tensions meaning that e.g. performance is achieved at the expense of durability. The greatest challenge facing Solid oxide cells (SOC), in both fuel and electrolysis cell modes (i.e SOFCs and SOECs) is to deliver high, long-lasting electrocatalytic activity while ensuring cost and time-efficient electrode manufacture. Ultimately, this can best be achieved by growing appropriate nanoarchitectures under operationally relevant conditions, rather than through intricate ex situ procedures. Here we look at attempts to nanoengineer this interface to enhance performance and also probe the changes in local structure that relate to activation or ageing during operation. We will present recent results utilizing both exsolution and infiltration chemistries addressing fuel cell and electrolysis operation.
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