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R & D TEAM

R&D TEAM

Dustin William Banham Ph.D
CTO and vice general manager of Taiji. Dr. Banham is a globally well-known expert in the field of PEMFC technology with more than 15 years of professional experience.
Up till now, he is the author of more than 40 peer review academic papers (in academic journals including Nature and Science) and 15 authorized patents. Moreover, he was also invited to deliver speeches in several international conferences and the main winner for the R&D Award in 2018. His main research field includes design and production of MEA and its components. He is in charge of R&D, quality, and production work at Taiji.
Dr. Peng Ye
Taiji's senior scientist. She has 10 years' of experience in working on porous support materials, catalyst design and synthesis, and some other related fields. She has successfully developed multiple types of electrocatalyst products suitable for PEMFC.
She has 10 years' experience in electrocatalyst development for PEMFC and one of the experts in a worldwide acknowledged fuel cell company.
Ja Yeon Choi Ph.D
Taiji's senior manager of the R&D Center. He has 12 years' experience in fuel cell technology research and development. He works on fuel cell catalysts and catalyst layer design, MEA testing, characterization, and verfication in Taiji.
Dr. Choi graduated from University of Waterloo with his master's and doctoral degree of chemical engineering in Canada. He is the author and co-author of 30+ peer review papers and citations reach more than 2700. Dr. Choi also led two projects from Department of Energy of the US (joint project manager in one of the two projects) and led a national-level project.
Kyoung Jin Bai
Taiji's R&D director. Kyoung Bai has more than 20 years' experience in fuel cell field with more than 10 patents. He is an expert working on integrating new materials into advanced catalyst layer design.
He is mainly responsible for MEA and GDL design, advanced research, benchmark testing, product development support and prototype design, etc.

Team introduction

Led by Dr. Dustin William Banham, 

Taiji's core R&D team is composed of excellent MEA experts with worldwide reputations. 

Our core R&D members come from a world-leading fuel cell company.

  • Marching towards the same target
    Marching towards the same target
    We make a concerted effort to work towards a less carbon emission society in all aspects and strive to achieve a sustainable and clean future.
    Marching towards the same target
  • Ceaseless effort to keep forging ahead
    Ceaseless effort to keep forging ahead
    We make a concerted effort to work towards a less carbon emission society in all aspects and strive to achieve a sustainable and clean future.
    Ceaseless effort to keep forging ahead
INTO THE PRODUCTION BASE

INTO THE PRODUCTION BASE

INTO THE PRODUCTION BASE
Taiji's first MEA manufacturing line has been in full operation in its production base with an annual production capacity of 1 million MEAs (approximately equals to supporting assembling of 2,000 entire vehicles)
Our products have been applied to use in our customer's fuel cell engines in small batches. Key indicators such as performance and durability have reached or even surpassed international leading levels and our products have been certified by Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection Center.