Heavyweight Introduction: Canadian Academician Chen Zhongwei Joins Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Battery | Academician | Chen Zhongwei
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According to Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, on July 28, the inaugural meeting of the first academic committee of the National Key Laboratory of Energy Catalytic Conversion was successfully held in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics. After deliberation and approval by the Party Leadership Group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics invited Chen Zhongwei, an academician of the Royal Canadian Academy of Sciences and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, to serve as the laboratory director.
Chen Zhongwei mentioned at the meeting: "The establishment of the Academic Committee of the National Key Laboratory of Energy Catalytic Transformation was under the background of thoroughly implementing the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and accelerating the restructuring of the State Key Laboratory system. In the future, the laboratory will strengthen strategic cooperation with well-known universities and key enterprises at home and abroad, accelerate the engineering and large-scale development of research results, and actively promote the establishment of a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system."
Chen Zhongwei was born in 1975 in Pan'an, Jinhua, Zhejiang. According to previous sources from Nanjing University of Technology, alumni Chen Zhongwei was admitted to the silicate engineering program in 1992. In 1999, he pursued a graduate degree in chemical engineering at East China University of Technology. In 2002, he pursued a doctoral degree in chemical engineering at the University of California, Riverside. In 2007, he became a visiting scholar at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. In 2008, he joined the University of Waterloo. In 2017, he was elected as a member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and in 2019, he was elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Sciences, becoming the youngest member of both academies in Canada.
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Academician Chen Zhongwei is the Chief Scientist of Canada, Vice President of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Sciences, Head of the Center for Nanomaterials and New Energy at the University of Waterloo, and Deputy Editor in Chief of ACS Applied Materials&Interfaces at the American Chemical Society. He is committed to the development and innovation of low-cost nanomaterials for fuel cells, high-energy silicon-based lithium-ion batteries, silicon-sulfur lithium batteries, zinc air storage batteries, and supercapacitors. His research areas include non precious metal catalysts, carbon nanotubes, graphene, metal nanotubes, nanowires, and composite films, among others. Many technologies are recognized as the most cutting-edge in the world.
According to information from Nanjing University of Technology, Academician Chen Zhongwei's multiple technologies have been industrialized, including fuel cells, zinc air flow energy storage technology, and the commercial promotion and application of core materials for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. The cutting-edge technology developed by Professor Chen Zhongwei's team has broad application prospects and market space in domestic new energy vehicle development, nuclear power and wind power storage, medical and health consumption, and other fields.