Deputy Director of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, selected by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' "Hundred Talents Program", selected by the first batch of the "Ten Thousand Talents Program" of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, selected by the list of applicants for the 2019 National Outstanding Youth Science Fund Recommended Funding Project, and Chief Expert of the Ministry of Science and Technology's 863 Project. His research field is the study of key scientific issues in compressed air energy storage.

His research results have won the "Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences", "Scholarship of the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences", "Baosteel Education Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences", "Wu Zhonghua Outstanding Young Scholar Award" in 2010, the Youth Award of the Seventh "Hou Debang Chemical Science and Technology Award" and the first prize of "Outstanding Young Paper of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences".

In 1997, Li Hong first proposed high-capacity nano-Si negative electrode materials in the world, applied for the first invention patent, and published the first article on nano-silicon negative electrode materials internationally in 1999. In 2005, he proposed a comprehensive solution for the Yuanxiao structure nano-silicon negative electrode, which was selected for the "National 15th Major Science and Technology Achievement Exhibition". Nano-silicon negative electrode materials began to obtain a series of core material patents in 1997. After 20 years of research and technology transfer, they began to be industrialized in Jiangsu Liyang Tianmu Pioneer Battery Materials Co., Ltd. in 2017. He proposed and developed hybrid solid-liquid electrolyte batteries and all-solid-state battery technologies based on in-situ solidification technology, and promoted the development of lithium-ion battery failure analysis technology and high-throughput computing technology. At present, the main research directions are key materials and battery technologies for high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries, solid-state lithium batteries, battery failure analysis, and solid ionics. He has co-published 380 SCI papers, cited more than 27,000 times, and an H-index of 84. He has applied for more than 100 Chinese invention patents and has been authorized for more than 50 Chinese invention patents.

Currently a researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, working in the E01 group. Subject matter expert in the energy storage sub-field of the Ministry of Science and Technology's advanced energy field, responsible expert for the key special project of smart grid technology and equipment of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and technical expert of the National New Energy Vehicle Innovation Center. Winner of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund. Leader of the National Key R&D Program New Energy Vehicle Pilot Special Power Battery Project, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission's Key Project of Solid-State Battery, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Key Project of Solid-State Battery. Co-founded Beijing Weilan New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., Liyang Tianmu Pioneer Battery Material Technology Co., Ltd., Zhongke Haina Technology Co., Ltd., Tianmu Lake Advanced Energy Storage Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., and Yangtze River Delta Physics Research Center Co., Ltd.

Zou Zhigang, a materials expert, is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. He is the director of the Center for Environmental Materials and Renewable Energy Research at Nanjing University, the director of the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanotechnology, and the dean of the Kunshan Innovation Institute of Nanjing University. He is mainly engaged in research on energy and environmental materials.

Zou Zhigang graduated from Tianjin University in 1982; obtained a master's degree in materials science from Tianjin University in 1986 and stayed at the school to teach; worked as a visiting researcher at the Institute of Inorganic Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan from 1991 to 1993; obtained a doctorate in science from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1996; resigned from his job in Japan in 2004 and joined Nanjing University full-time; was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015; was elected as an academician of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World in 2018; and served as the dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Fuzhou University from 2019 to December 2021.

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, President and President of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Sciences (IAOEES), and Chairman of the Fuel Cell Engine Branch of the China Internal Combustion Engine Society.

Introduction:

Male, born in March 1940, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, technical director of Beijing Xingheng Power Supply Co., Ltd., and doctoral supervisor. Graduated from the Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China in 1964.

Main research directions:

• Nanoionics;
• New energy materials and their applications;
• Research on solid electrolytes and all-solid-state lithium batteries.