Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Box 870203
Tuscaloosa, AL
USA 35487-0203
Email: helloweili@hotmail.com
Biographical Sketch:
- Education
- PhD Candidate, Present -- The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL -- Chemical Engineering
- PhD Student, 2005-2006 -- University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR -- Analytic Chemistry
- MS, 2000 -- Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, ZJ, P.R. China -- Chemical Engineering
- BS, 1997 -- University of Petroleum, Dongying, Shandong P.R. China -- Applied Chemistry
- Mr. Wei Li has 10 years of research and development experience on PEM fuel cells. He entered this field as a graduate student at Zhejiang University in 1997 where he developed a two-dimension mechanistic model for a single PEM fuel cell, and a vapor-PEM sorption model based on Flory-Huggins theory. After graduation in 2000, he joined the PEM fuel cell group at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, part of the Chinese Academy of Science where he helped develop a partially fluorinated proton exchange membrane (PF-PEM). Meanwhile, Mr. Li also worked at Shanghai Shenli Hi-tech Co. Ltd. (a major PEM fuel cell stack developer in China) to make a large area MEA for the PF-PEM and stack development. In 2002, Shanghai TL Chemical Co., Ltd. was established to commercialize the PF-PEM and Mr. Li was appointed as manager of the PEM R&D department. To further his study of PEM fuel cells, he joined Dr. Eugene Smotkin’s group at the University of Puerto Rico as a graduate student in 2005. He worked on the cathode oxygen reduction mechanism of the PEM fuel cell, and also was involved in an XAFS study on DMFC, reproducibility of MEA fabrication, and operation optimization. In 2006, he joined Dr. Alan Lane’s group at The Univeristy of Alabama as a PhD candidate, where he focuses on cathode electrocatalyst durability in PEM fuel cells.