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HAN Donglin




Education Background

2008 – 2011 Ph D, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University

2005 – 2007 Master, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University

2001 – 2005 Bachelor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University


Research Record

2019 until now, Professor, College of Energy, Soochow University

2015 – 2019, Program-Specified Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University

2011 – 2015, Program-Specified Researcher / Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University


Current Research Interest

1. Transportation behavior of charge carriers (protons, oxide ions, electrons, holes, etc.) in solid oxides;

2. Fuel cells, electrolysis cells with proton/oxide ion conducting electrolytes;

3. Novel ionic conductors;

4. Low temperature proton conduction on surface of ceramics;


Representative Publications

  1. Donglin HAN*, Kazuhiro GOTO, Masatoshi MAJIMA, Tetsuya UDA, Proton Conductive BaZr0.8-xCexY0.2O3-δ: Influence of NiO Sintering Additive on Crystal Structure, Hydration Behavior, and Conduction Properties, DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202002369, in press.

  2. Donglin HAN*, Tetsuya UDA*, Correlation between Phase Behavior and Electrical Conductivity of 10% Y-Doped BaZrO3: An Anomalous Dispersion Effect-Aided Synchrotron Radiation XRD Study Combined with TEM Observation and Electrochemical Analysis, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11(4), 3990-4000, 2019.

  3. Donglin HAN*, Shigeaki UEMURA, Chihiro HIRAIWA, Masatoshi MAJIMA, Tetsuya UDA*, Detrimental Effect of Sintering Additive on Conducting Ceramics: Yttrium-Doped Barium Zirconate, ChemSusChem, 11(23), 4102-4113, 2018.

  4. Donglin HAN*, Tetsuya UDA*，The Best Composition of an Y-Doped BaZrO3 Electrolyte: Selection Criteria from Transport Properties, Microstructure, and Phase Behavior, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6(38), 18571-18582, 2018.

  5. Donglin HAN*, Kohei KATO, Tetsuya UDA*, La2(Nb1-xYx)2O7-δ: Discovery of a Novel Fluorite Structure-Based Ionic Conductor, Chemical Communications, 53(94), 12684-12687, 2017.

  6. Donglin HAN*, Junji IIHARA, Shigeaki UEMURA, Kenji KAZUMI, Chihiro HIRAIWA, Masatoshi MAJIMA, Tetsuya UDA*, A High Temperature Reduction Cleaning (HTRC) Process: A Novel Method for Conductivity Recovery of Yttrium-Doped Barium Zirconate Electrolytes, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(27), 10601-10608, 2016.

  7. Donglin HAN*, Kozo SHINODA, Shigeo SATO, Masatoshi MAJIMA, Tetsuya UDA*, Correlation between Electroconductive and Structural Properties of Proton Conductive Acceptor-Doped Barium Zirconate, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3(3), 1243-1250, 2015.

  8. Donglin HAN*, Kozo SHINODA, Susumu TSUKIMOTO, Hisao TAKEUCHI, Chihiro HIRAIWA, Masatoshi MAJIMA, Tetsuya UDA*, Origins of Structural and Electrochemical Influence on Y-Doped BaZrO3 Heat-treated with NiO Additive, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2(31), 12552-12560, 2014.

  9. Donglin HAN, Kyosuke KISHIDA, Kozo SHINODA, Haruyuki INUI, Tetsuya UDA*, A Comprehensive Understanding of Structure and Site Occupancy of Y in Y-Doped BaZrO3, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 1(9), 3027-3033, 2013.

  10. Donglin HAN, Tetsuya UDA*, Yoshitaro NOSE, Toshihiro OKAJIMA, Hidenobu MURATA, Isao TANAKA, Kozo SHINODA, Tetravalent Dysprosium in a Perovskite-type Oxide, Advanced Materials, 24(15), 2051-2053, 2012.