Rui Huang studied Applied Chemistry at Harbin Institute of Technology in China (2016-2020). She obtained the degree of Master of Natural Science in Chemistry and Physics of Polymers at Fudan University in Shanghai (2020-2023). In her Master’s thesis, she focused on the topic of The anodic Ir-based electrocatalysts for the PEM water electrolysis: development and mechanism studies under operating conditions at the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers in Fudan University. After graduation, she came to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) where she is now a PhD student with Prof. Dr. Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt at the Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT) since 2023. She studies in the group of Energy-related Catalysis and her main research areas are the electrocatalysis and operando measurements.

Publications

• Huang, R.; Wen, Y.; Miao, P.; Shi, W.; Niu, W.; Sun, K.; Li, Y.; Ji, Y.; Zhang, B., Constructing the oxygen diffusion paths for promoting the stability of acidic water oxidation catalysts. Chem Catal. 2023, 3 (7), 100667. 
• Huang, R.; Wen, Y.; Peng, H.; Zhang, B., Improved Kinetics of OER on Ru-Pb Binary Electrocatalyst by Decoupling Proton-electron Transfer. Chin. J. Catal. 2022, 43 (1), 130-138. 
• Wen, Y.; Liu, C.; Huang, R.; Zhang, H.; Li, X.; García de Arquer, F. P.; Liu, Z.; Li, Y.; Zhang, B., Introducing Brønsted Acid Sites to Accelerate the Bridging-oxygen-assisted Deprotonation in Acidic Water Oxidation. Nat. Commun. 2022, 13 (1), 4871. 
• Pan, S., Li, H., Liu, D., Huang, R., Pan, X., Ren, D., Li, J., Shakouri, M., Zhan Q., Wang, M., Wei, C., Mai, L., Zhang, B., Zhao, Y., Wang, Z., Graetzel, M., Zhang, X. Efficient and Stable Noble-Metal-Free Catalyst for Acidic Water Oxidation. Nat. Commun. 2022, 13 (1), 2294. 
• Wen, Y.; Chen, P.; Wang, L.; Li, S.; Wang, Z.; Abed, J.; Mao, X.; Min, Y.; Dinh, C. T.; Luna, P. D.; Huang, R.; Zhang, L.; Wang, L.; Wang, L.; Nielsen, R. J.; Li, H.; Zhuang, T.; Ke, C.; Voznyy, O.; Hu, Y.; Li, Y.; Goddard Iii, W. A.; Zhang, B.; Peng, H.; Sargent, E. H., Stabilizing Highly Active Ru Sites by Suppressing Lattice Oxygen Participation in Acidic Water Oxidation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143 (17), 6482-6490. 
• Tian, C.; Tang, J.; Wang, L.; Huang, R.; Ai, C.; Cao, H.; Huang, T.; Yu, A., Effect of Residual Solvents on Properties of Composite Solid Electrolyte. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2023, 11 (27), 10164-10171. 
• Niu, W.; Chen, Z.; Guo, W.; Mao, W.; Liu, Y.; Guo, Y.; Chen, J.; Huang, R.; Kang, L.; Ma, Y.; Yan, Q.; Ye, J.; Cui, C.; Zhang, L.; Wang, P.; Xu, X.; Zhang, B., Pb-rich Cu Grain Boundary Sites for Selective CO-to-n-propanol Electroconversion. Nat. Commun. 2023, 14 (1), 4882. 

Conference

• Scientific Technological and Energy Revolution--Carbon Neutral Industry Segmentation Forum, Shanghai, China. “PEM and Green Hydrogen”, Oral presentation. April 2022.
• The 13th National Conference on Fine Structures of X-ray Absorption (XAFS), Chengdu, China. “Improved Kinetics of OER on Ru-Pb Binary Electrocatalyst by Decoupling Proton-electron Transfer”, Poster. April 2023.