The paper entitled Achieve Superior Electrocatalytic Performance by Surface Copper Vacancy Defects during Electrochemical Etching Process gets a global audience. It was recently published in a top international journal in the field of chemistry. [Photo/imu.edu.cn]

Recently, a research group led by Professor Wang Qin, at the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Inner Mongolia University (IMU), published a research paper -- on improving the electrocatalytic performance of precious metal alloys by regulating metal defects and lattice stress -- in a globally important publication in the field of chemistry, according to IMU officials.

The paper was published in the Angewandte Chemi International Edition. This is the journal of the German Chemical Society and it is widely regarded as one of the prime chemistry journals in the world.

Entitled Achieve Superior Electrocatalytic Performance by Surface Copper Vacancy Defects during Electrochemical Etching Process, the research work in the paper was mainly conducted and completed by Professor Wang Qin's team in cooperation with Professor Zhang Wei from the Ministry of Education’s Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials at Jilin University, assistant researcher He Feng from the Institute of Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor Huang Keke’s research team from the State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparation Chemistry at Jilin University.

IMU is the first author and corresponding author unit of the paper. Guo Niankun, a postgraduate student at IMU and Xue Hui, a young teacher at IMU, are the first co-authors of the paper and Professor Wang Qin is the only corresponding author of the paper.