Title: Regulation of Charge Carrier Transport in Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems
Speaker: Prof. Wu Yuping, Southeast University
Invited by: Prof. Liang Zhenxing
Time: 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM, March 28, 2026 (Saturday)
Venue: Conference Room 214, Building 16, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Organizer: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering / Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology
Biography:
Prof. Wu Yuping is a Chair Professor at Southeast University, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Executive Director of the Next-Generation Energy Storage Center, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Corresponding Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (Germany), and Foreign Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. He is one of the few researchers globally to be selected as both “Highly Cited Researchers” and a “Highly Influential Scientific Mind.” He serves as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Energy Z (target IF > 25) and Energy Materials (IF = 11.2). His research focuses on lithium-ion batteries and key materials, supercapacitors, aqueous batteries, and other energy storage technologies. He has served as Chief Scientist or Principal Investigator for multiple major projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program and key projects of the National National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Abstract:
Electrochemical energy storage systems play an increasingly important role in sustainable development, including electric vehicles and the utilization of renewable energy sources such as solar power. In these systems, the transport of charge carriers is indispensable for completing the charging/discharging process. Regulating the transport of electrons/ions presents numerous challenges. Since 1994, we have been conducting exploratory research on this frontier area, covering anodes, cathodes, separators, and electrolytes. This work will be summarized in this report.
Title: High-Energy-Density Electrode Materials and Lithium Batteries
Speaker: Prof. Yu Xiqian, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Invited by: Prof. Liang Zhenxing
Time: 9:40 AM – 10:20 AM, March 28, 2026 (Saturday)
Venue: Conference Room 214, Building 16, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Organizer: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering / Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology
Biography:
Prof. Yu Xiqian is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Wuhan University in 2005 and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics, CAS, in 2010. He conducted postdoctoral research at Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) from 2010 to 2013 and served as an Assistant Researcher there from 2013 to 2016. He joined the Institute of Physics, CAS, in April 2016. He has received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including the Excellent Young Scientists Fund and key projects. His research interests include the development of high-energy-density lithium batteries and key materials, advanced characterization and intelligent materials design, and battery failure analysis. He has published over 220 papers in prestigious international journals, including Nature Energy, with over 27,000 citations and an H-index of 92.
Abstract:
Increasing energy density is one of the primary research goals for lithium-ion batteries. Developing high-capacity cathode and anode materials is a crucial pathway to achieving this. However, increasing the capacity of electrode materials is often accompanied by a significant decline in structural stability during electrochemical reactions, making it difficult for the materials’ electrochemical performance to meet practical application requirements. Nanoscale structural design is a primary method to address this issue. By compositing phases with different physical properties at the nanoscale in a controlled manner, the distinct characteristics of different phases can balance the diverse design requirements of materials, such as capacity and stability. Therefore, studying the nanoscale composite structures within materials and the nanoscale short-range order structures within their crystal lattices, along with their evolution during electrochemical processes, is crucial for designing high-capacity cathode materials with high structural stability. This report will use oxide cathode materials like lithium cobalt oxide as examples to introduce strategies for enhancing material capacity through the comprehensive design of different hierarchical nanostructures, including the bulk, grain boundaries, and surface, and discuss their application in high-specific-energy lithium batteries.
Title: Interface Studies of Highly Stable Lithium Metal Anodes
Speaker: Prof. Huang Jiaqi, Beijing Institute of Technology
Invited by: Prof. Liang Zhenxing
Time: 10:20 AM – 11:00 AM, March 28, 2026 (Saturday)
Venue: Conference Room 214, Building 16, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Organizer: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering / Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology
Biography:
Prof. Huang Jiaqi is a Tenured Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Advanced Research Institute of Interdisciplinary Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. His research focuses on energy chemistry for next-generation battery applications, such as high-specific-energy, high-safety, long-life lithium-sulfur and lithium metal batteries. He has published over 200 research papers in journals such as Nature Energy, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Advanced Materials, with an H-index of 120, of which over 80 are ESI Highly Cited Papers. He has received funding including the National Ten Thousand Talents Program for Young Top-notch Talents, the Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist Program, and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He has been recognized as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and received the First Prize for Natural Science from the Chinese Society of Particuology in 2022 and the Special Prize of the 17th China Youth Science and Technology Award.
Title: In-situ Raman Spectroscopy for Studying Interfacial Reaction Processes
Speaker: Prof. Li Jianfeng, Xiamen University
Invited by: Prof. Liang Zhenxing
Time: 11:00 AM – 11:40 AM, March 28, 2026 (Saturday)
Venue: Conference Room 214, Building 16, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Organizer: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering / Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology
Biography:
Prof. Li Jianfeng is a Professor at the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Executive Vice Dean of the College of Energy at Xiamen University. He graduated from Zhejiang University in 2003 and received his Ph.D. from Xiamen University in 2010. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Bern and ETH Zurich from 2011 to 2014. His research focuses on Raman spectroscopy, electrochemistry, energy catalysis, in-situ characterization, and rapid on-site detection. He has published over 400 papers in high-level international journals, including as corresponding author in Nature, Nature Energy, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, and Nature Catalysis, with over 30,000 citations. He holds 40 authorized invention patents. He serves as an Associate Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vice Chair of the Surface Physical Chemistry Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, and Vice Chair of the Light Scattering Committee of the Chinese Physical Society. He has been recognized as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for many years. His honors include the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (with extended support), Chief Scientist for a National Key Research and Development Program, Ten Thousand Talents Program for Science and Technology Innovation, China Youth Science and Technology Award, Tencent Xplorer Prize, First Prize for Natural Science from the Ministry of Education, and Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award.
Abstract:
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) provides fingerprint structural information of substances with extremely high surface detection sensitivity. However, significant SERS enhancement is typically observed only on rough surfaces of materials like Au, Ag, and Cu, which greatly limits its practical applications. To address this bottleneck, our research group has developed strategies by constructing different core-shell nanostructures, including the “borrowing” strategy, shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SHINERS), and satellite structure strategies. These approaches overcome the limitations of traditional SERS in terms of materials and morphology, enhancing the detection sensitivity and spatial resolution of Raman spectroscopy. We perform in-situ characterization of energy/electrochemical reactions on model single crystals and actual nanocatalysts, capturing direct spectroscopic evidence of various surface reaction intermediates (such as OOH, OH, O₂⁻). This allows us to elucidate the mechanisms and structure-activity relationships of important reactions like oxygen reduction, hydrogen oxidation, and CO₂ reduction at the molecular level, as well as the regulatory role of interfacial water molecule structures on reaction mechanisms, providing direct experimental evidence for long-debated electrochemical/catalytic reaction mechanisms. Furthermore, we have extended the shell-isolation strategy to other plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies, developing a series of ultra-sensitive shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced fluorescence, phosphorescence, and sum-frequency generation techniques.
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