Aqueous Batteries for Energy Storage

Dr. Chunyi Zhi obtained his Ph.D. in physics from Institute for Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After two years' postdoc in National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan, he was promoted to be ICYS researcher, researcher (faculty) and senior researcher (permanent position) in NIMS. Dr. Zhi is currently a professor in MSE, CityU. Dr. Zhi has extensive experiences in flexible energy storage, aqueous electrolyte batteries, zinc ion batteries and electrocatalysts. He has published more than 400 papers, including Nature Reveiw Mater.; Nature Commun.; Joule, Matter, Energy Environ. Sci.; Adv. Mater.; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; Angew Chem. In. Ed. etc, with an H-index of 94 and other-citation of 28000 (ISI). He has been granted more than 80 patents.

Dr. Xu Jin obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Physics and Chemistry from College of Chemistry and Environment, Beihang University, specializing in the topic of synthesizing bionic engineering materials. Dr. Jin is currently a senior engineer and deputy director in new energy research center, RIPED, PetroChina.

Mr. Xiaoqi Wang is specialised in materials science and engineering, he has extensive experience in geological reservoir characterization, electron microscopic imaging, electrochemical energy storage materials and devices development. He has co-authored 37 papers, been authorized 5 international invention patents and 34 national invention patents and participated in the formation of 4 national/industry standards.