Graphene: Energy Storage and Conversion Applications

Zhaoping Liu holds a Ph.D from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei. He is currently the director and professor of the Advanced Li-ion Battery Engineering Lab at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the National Institute for Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan, and the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. His research interests include Li-ion batteries and graphene materials. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers with a total citing of more than 3,000, and has received more than 100 patents.

Xufeng Zhou is an associate professor at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He holds a Ph.D from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow at NIMTE. His research focuses on the preparation of graphene and its applications in energy storage devices, including Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors. He has published more than 40 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and has applied for more than 20 patents. He is the recipient of the 2013 Lu Jiaxi Young Talent Award and the 2014 Excellent Postdoctoral Fellow of Zhejiang Province, among other accolades.

Fuqiang Huang is a professor at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He holds a Ph.D from Beijing Normal University, China. He has published more than 300 papers and 150 patents; is a recipient of many awards; and was previously a research associate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA; postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; principal scientist in R&D at Osram Sylvania, Inc.; and research staff member at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. His work concentrates on thin-film semiconductor photovoltaic (PV) cells, key solar materials, and n