Name: Xianfeng Li

Gender: Male

Title: Professor

Education: Ph.D.

Category: Professor, "Ten Thousand Talent Program," "Young Talent Program"

Expertise: Electrochemical Energy Storage Technology

Phone: +86-0411-84379669

Fax: +86-0411-84665057

Email: lixianfeng@dicp.ac.cn

Address: No. 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian (116023), China

Education and Work Experience:

2001.09-2006.06  Jilin University, Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and Physics

2006.10-2009.09  Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven, Belgium

2009.09-2012.12  Associate Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2011.04-2014.10  Research Group Leader, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2012.12-Present  Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2014.10-Present  Deputy Director, Director (Acting), and Director, Research Department, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2017.12-2020.06  Assistant Director, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2020.06-2021.05  Member of the Administrative Committee, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2021.05-Present  Deputy Director, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Resume:

Professor Li Xianfeng, Ph.D. supervisor, currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the Director of the Energy Storage Technology Research Department. He is a recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, a "Leading Talent in Technological Innovation" under the National Ten Thousand Talents Program, and enjoys special government allowances from the State Council. His research focuses on electrochemical energy storage technologies, particularly flow battery energy storage systems, with a long-standing commitment to both fundamental research and industrial development.

He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the First-Class Technical Invention Award and the Patent Gold Award from the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation (ranked 1st), the First-Class Technical Invention Award from Liaoning Province (ranked 1st), the Science and Technology Promotion Development Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ranked 1st), the Second-Class National Technical Invention Award (ranked 3rd), the Chinese Academy of Sciences Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award (ranked 2nd), the Qingshan Science and Technology Award, and the Science Exploration Award, among others.

He has published over 300 SCI papers in journals such as Energy & Environmental Science, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Chemical Society Reviews, and Science Bulletin, which have been cited more than 18,000 times, with an H-index of 74. He holds over 300 authorized invention patents, including more than 10 internationally granted patents.

Professor Li serves as the Associate Editor for Chinese Chemical Letters, Advanced Membranes, and Renewables, as well as an Executive Editorial Board Member for Science Bulletin, and an Editorial Board Member for journals such as J. Energy Chem., Sustainable Energy & Fuels (RSC), and Energy Storage Science and Technology. He has led and managed more than 30 projects, including the National 973 Program, the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Pioneer A Program, the National Natural Science Foundation, and various industrial technology development collaborations.

Main Research Directions:

Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries

Zinc-Based Flow Batteries

Organic Flow Batteries

Sodium-Ion Batteries

Lithium-Ion Batteries

Lithium/Carbon Fluoride Batteries

Representative Publications:

[1] Reversible multielectron transfer I⁻/IO₃⁻ cathode enabled by a hetero-halogen electrolyte for high-energy-density aqueous batteries, Nature Energy, 2024, doi:10.1038/s41560-024-01515-9.

[2] An artificial bridge between the anode and the anolyte enabled by an organic ligand for sustainable zinc-based flow batteries. Energy Environ. Sci., 2024,17, 717-726.

[3] Insights into an air-stable methylene blue catholyte towards kW-scale practical aqueous organic flow batteries. Energy Environ. Sci. 2023, 16, 231-240.

[4] Bromine assisted MnO₂ dissolution chemistry: Toward a hybrid flow battery with energy density of over 300 Wh L⁻¹. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, 51, e202213751.

[5] High-performance PBI membranes for flow batteries: from the transport mechanism to the pilot plant. Energy Environ. Sci. 2022, 15, 1594-1600.

[6] Dendrite-free zinc-based battery with high areal capacity via the region-induced deposition effect of turing membrane. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 33, 13135-13144.

[7] A highly reversible zinc deposition for flow batteries regulated by critical concentration induced nucleation. Energy Environ. Sci. 2021, 14, 4077-4084.

[8] Cost, performance prediction and optimization of a vanadium flow battery by machine-learning. Energy Environ. Sci. 2020, 13, 4353-4361.

[9] Thin-film composite membrane breaking the trade-off between Conductivity and Selectivity for a flow battery. Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 2609.

[10]  Redox targeting improves flow batteries. Joule. 2019, 3, 9, 2066-2075.