A research team led by Dr. Li Haibin, Associate Researcher from the Institute of Fuel Cell, School of Mechanical Engineering, succesfully developed a new-type optical humidity sensitive material. Their research result with the title Optical Humidity Sensing, Proton-Conducting Sol-Gel Glass Monolith was published on Journal of Power Sources (2011, 196, 3836-3840; IF 4.283), an internationally authoritative journal in the field of energy resources. Meanwhile, Vertical News, the American S&T media, wrote the article Research from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Electrochemicals Provides New Insights to specially introduce the research fruit ((http://www.verticalnews.com/newsletters/Energy-Weekly-News/2011-04-22/68800ER.html)).

Since 2011, the research team has yielded a series of innovative fruit, with three quality research papers published on Journal of Power Sources.