报告人简介：

Hak Yong Kim, a professor of BIN Convergence Technology Department inChonbuk National University, South Korea. He received a B.S. degree from theDepartment of Textile Engineering of Chonbuk National University (South Korea)in 1981. He received his M.S. degree in Textile Engineering from Seoul NationalUniversity in 1983. Then he received his Ph.D. degree from same University in1993. From 1993 to 1998, he worked at Fiber Research Division in Samyang GroupR&D Center. He became a professor at Chonbuk National University in 1998.He was made Director of Center for Healthcare Technology &Development ofChonbuk National University in 2004. Meanwhile, he was a visiting Professor atUniversity of Massachusetts (USA) in 2004 and King Saud University (SaudiArabia) in 2010, respectively. His research interests center on biomaterials,polymer composites, inorganic materials, and carbon nanofibers. His mainachievements include 338 published SCI journal papers with more than 9026citations, H-index is 48 and 102 patents.

报告大纲：

Although numerous reports have introduced non precious electrocatalystsfor methanol oxidation,most of those studies didnot consider the corresponding high onset potential which restricts utilizationin real fuel cells. In this study, a −90 mV [vs. Ag/AgCl] onset potentialnon-precious electrocatalyst isintroduced as anapplicable anode material for the direct methanol fuel cells. Moreover, theproposedmaterial was prepared from a cheap andabundantly existing resource; the spent coffee grounds. Typically, the spentcoffee grounds were facilely converted to core@shell (ZnO@C) microspheres througha two-step approach, involving chemical activation and a subsequent calcinationattemperature of 700°C. Activation of the carbonderived from the spent coffee grounds was performedwith ZnCl2 which acts as pore-forming agent as well as aprecursor for the ZnO. The structure andmorphology were characterized by XRD, SEM, and TEManalyses while the electrochemicalcharacterizations was evaluated by cyclic voltammetry(CV) technique. Besides the comparatively verylow onset potential, the introduced microspheresexhibited relatively high current density; 17 mA/cm2.Overall, based on theadvantages of the green source of carbon and the good electrocatalytic activity,the spent coffee grounds-derived carbon can be considered a promise anodematerial for the DMFCs.