InfoMat with KIChE: Energy Storage in Asia

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InfoMat, in collaboration with KIChE, will hold a special session titled by "Energy Storage in Asia" at the KIChE Spring Meeting on 26th of April. With the theme of "The Future Batteries for Emerging Markets and Sustainable Society", 9 top Asian scholars in the field of energy will give their invited talks for a one-day seminar on cutting-edge researches on energy storage. The seminar will be broadcast in real-time online streaming for scholars and industry professionals in the field of global energy.

 

 

Topic

Energy Storage in Asia

 

Time

Friday, 8am - 10am, 1pm - 4pm（Beijing Time UTC/GMT+8）

Friday, 9 am - 11 am, 2 pm - 5 pm (Korea time UTC/GMT+9) 

 

SPEAKERS & ABSTRACTS

1. Prof. Hong Jin Fan, Nanyang Technological University

 

Dr Fan received PhD from National University of Singapore in 2003. After his postdoc research at Max-Planck-Institute, Germany and the University of Cambridge, he joined Nanyang Technological University in 2008. Dr Fan has been working on energy materials and devices, including electrocatalysis for hydrogen generation and new-generation batteries. He has co-authored 300+ journal papers with an H-index of 100 (WoS) and has been recognized as Highly Cited Researcher since 2016. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Materials Today Energy (2022 IF: 9.3), and editorial/advisory board member of journals including Energy and Environmental Sciences, Small, Advanced Science, eScience, Next Energy, etc. 

Topic: Mitigating challenges for Aqueous Zn Batteries

 

2. Prof. Yuki Yamada, Nanjing Osaka University

Yuki Yamada is currently a full professor at SANKEN, Osaka University in Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2010 under the supervision of Professor Zempachi Ogumi and Professor Takeshi Abe. In the same year, he moved to Professor Atsuo Yamada group in the University of Tokyo as an assistant professor. He was promoted to a lecturer in 2018 and an associate professor in 2020. In 2021, he moved to Osaka University as a full professor. His current result interests focus on electrochemical energy storage/conversion devices based on the development of new materials and science of liquid electrolytes. He is a young researcher of 39 years old and has published over 70 papers (H-index 43), including Nat. Energy (five papers), Nat. Sustainability, Nat. Commun., Joule, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (two papers), Adv. Mater., Adv. Sci., etc. He has applied over 80 patents, among which 31 patents have been registered. He has been recognized by ten awards including The Young Scientists’ Award (The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), The University of Tokyo Excellent Young Researcher Award, The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists, and The Electrochemical Society of Japan Young Researcher Award. He also serves as an Editorial Advisory Board member of ChemElectroChem.

Topic: Rational design of lithium battery electrolytes based on electrode potentials

 

3. Prof. Yong-Sheng Hu, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  

Yong-Sheng Hu is a full professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also the Director of Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy. His research focuses on the development of new materials for Na-ion batteries and understanding their fundamental energy storage mechanism. His recent original contributions include: propose “solvent-in-salt” (concentrated) electrolytes for rechargeable batteries; discover the electroactivity of Cu2+/Cu3+ redox couple in Na containing oxides and design a series of Cu_based cathode materials; propose high-entropy cathode materials for rechargeable batteries; discover a new class of viscoelastic inorganic glass (VIGLAS) electrolytes for solid-state batteries, etc. He has published over 300 internationally refereed publications including in Science, Nature Energy and so on, which have been cited over 40000 times according to web of science with an H-index of 106. He is the Senior Editor of ACS Energy Letters. He also received several awards and honors, such as The 14th China Youth Science and Technology Award, Tajima Prize, Fellow of The Institute of Physics (UK), Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, etc.

Topic: VIGLAS: A New Class of Electrolyte for Solid-State Batteries

 

4. Prof. Qiang Zhang, Qsinghua University

Prof. Qiang Zhang is a full professor at Tsinghua University. He held the Newton Advanced Fellowship from Royal Society, UK and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He is selected as highly cited researchers at 2017-2023 by Clarivate Analytics. His current research interests are advanced energy materials, including dendrite-free lithium metal anode, lithium sulfur batteries, and electrocatalysis, especially the structure design and full demonstration of advanced energy materials in working devices. His h-index is 158 now. He is the Advisor Editor of Angew. Chem., Associate Editor of J Energy Chem & Energy Storage Mater. He is sitting on the advisory board of Chem Soc Rev, Matter, Adv Funct Mater, ChemSusChem, J Mater Chem A, Chem Commun, and so on. He is the deputy head of the expert group on energy storage and smart grid of the national key research and development plan. He has won the first prize of Natural Science of the Ministry of Education, the first prize of Fundamental Science of the Chemical Engineering Society.

Topic: Improving the stability of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

 

5. Prof. Yong Min LEE,  Yonsei University

Dr. Yong Min LEE is a professor of department of chemical and biomolecular engineering in Yonsei University, Republic of Korea. He earned his Ph.D. at the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 2007 with a thesis on “the study on the characteristics of advanced electrolyte and electrode/electrolyte interface”. And then, he had worked for SK innovation Co., Ltd (2007-2009), Hanbat National Univ. (2009-2017), and Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) (2017-2024) in Republic of Korea. With long and wide research experiences in battery industry, he is investigating both materials and simulations for state-of-the-art batteries including LIBs, Li metal batteries, all-solid-state batteries, etc. Especially, his research team is looking for new soft energy materials like binders while unveiling their roles through building digital-twin structures and simulating them. He has published more than 200 papers, which have been cited around 10,000 times (h-index: 52, as of Feb. 2024).

Topic: Digital Twin Battery Modeling and Simulations: A New Tool to Understand and Design Next-Generation Batteries

 

6. Prof. Jia-Qi Huang, Beijing Institute of Technology

Dr. Jia-Qi Huang received his B.E. (2007) and Ph.D. (2012) degrees at Tsinghua University. He joined Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science (ARIMS) at Beijing Institute of Technology as associate professor in 2016. He was promoted to full professor at Beijing Institute of Technology in 2019. His research interests focus on the advanced high-energy-density batteries such as lithium sulfur batteries and lithium metal batteries. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed SCI papers in Nature Energy, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., J. Am. Chem. Soc., etc. These papers have received a total citation for over 40,000 times with an H-index of 106, with over 70 papers as ESI Highly Cited Papers. He serves as editorial/young editorial board member for J. Energy Chem., InfoMat, EcoMat, Energy Mater. Adv., etc. He was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in materials science (2018-2023) and chemistry (2021-2023). He has received the 17th China Youth Science and Technology Award (2022), First prize natural science award of Chinese Society of Particuology (2022), EnSM Young Scientist Award (2022), etc.

Topic: Interface Design for Advanced Lithium Metal Batteries

 

7. Prof. Dong-Hwa Seo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 

Dong-Hwa Seo is an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), where he completed his PhD in 2011. He was an assistant professor of school of energy and chemical engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) from 2019 to 2023. He worked at Samsung Research America as a research engineer (2017-2019), University of California, Berkeley as a research specialist (2016-2017), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a postdoctoral researcher. His research is mainly focused on understanding the reaction mechanism of the battery materials and their interfaces at the atomic scale using first-principles calculation and developing high-performance battery materials based on the in-depth understanding. His published works in this field have been cited more than 17,000 times. He was a recipient of Early Career Award from the International Battery Materials Association (IBA) in 2018 and selected as Highly Cited Researchers in 2022 from Clarivate Analytics.

Topic: Heterogeneous nature of Mn-based cation-disordered cathodes for Li-ion batteries

 

8. Prof. Dawei Wang，Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology  

Dawei Wang is a Professor and an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Sydney. His research interest dives into many aspects of sustainable energy, from green materials to system innovations. His most recent focus relates to the development of biomimetic ionics and materials for applications in energy storage and the integration of circular engineering into energy technologies. He has attracted many competitive grants from funding bodies including ARC, CRC and ARENA and has helped several energy and environment industry partners develop and upgrade new technologies. He has contributed 2 book chapters, more than 200 journal publications, and delivered numerous keynote/invited talks at local and international institutions and conferences, including being a guest speaker at Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has won some prestigious awards including the Highly Cited Researcher Award by Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics since 2018, the 2020 Young Scientist Award (under 40) by The International Coalition for Energy Storage and Innovation, the Finalist of 2018 AMP Tomorrow Maker, and the 2013 Scopus Young Researcher Award in Engineering and Technology by Elsevier & Australasia Research Management Society. He also serves Associate Editors at Carbon Neutralization (Wiley), and a Fellow of IAAM.

Topic: Nanofluidic Supra-aggregation for Supercapacitors

 

9. Prof. Ho Seok Park, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)

 

Ho Seok Park is a direct of Center for 2D Redox Energy Storage (2DRES), a full professor of Chemical Engineering at the Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), an adjunct professor at the Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Science & Technology (SAIHST), and SKKU Fellow. His current research interests focus on electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices based on 2D and carbon nanomaterials and polymer electrolytes. He has published more than 300 papers in the top journals, including Nature Materials, Joule, Chem. Soc. Rev., Energy & Environ. Sci., Nature Commun., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., JACS, ACS Energy Lett., Nano Lett., ACS Nano, etc, and been taking associate and guest editor and editorial board member in the SCI(E) journals of InfoMat, Adv. Funct. Mater., NEXT Energy, Energy Materials, Batteries & Supercaps, J. Phys. Energy, Materials Today Energy, and so on. He has been recognized by several awards including the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) Member, Commendation from Ministry of Science and ICT Minister, EnSM Young Scientist Award, S-OIL Young Scientist Award, National R&D Excellence 100 in 2019, the Scientist of the Month, the LG Yeonam Fellowship, and so on. 

Topic: Multifunctional Polymeric Metal Phthalocyanine Hosts and Artificial Layers for Li Metal and Li-S Batteries 

 

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