Name: Prof. Dr. Johan E. ten Elshof
Affiliation: MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands
Interests: Li-ion batteries; Na-ion batteries; solid-state batteries; thin-film and flexible batteries; solid electrolytes; pseudocapacitors; interfaces; 2D materials; soft chemical synthesis; inorganic synthesis; nanomaterial synthesis

Name: Prof. Dr. Prashant N. Kumta
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15621, USA
Interests: electrospinning; lithium–sulfur; flexible electrodes; sulfur fibers; textile battery; Li-ion battery

Name: Prof. Dr. Junji Akimoto
Affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan
Interests: negative electrode material; solid electrolyte material; single-crystal synthesis; positive electrode material; battery material; crystal structure analysis; soft chemical synthesis; inorganic synthesis; lithium secondary battery; all solid-state batteries

Name: Prof. Dr. Mingtao Li
Affiliation: School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
Interests: power lithium-ion battery materials, including inorganic nanomaterials, polymer materials, ionic liquids, etc.; nano anode catalysts for urea fuel cells; ionic liquid heat storage materials

Name: Dr. Yaxiang Lu
Affiliation: Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: research on energy storage materials and devices, including designing low-cost and high-performance electrode materials; constructing compatible and robust electrode/electrolyte interfaces; exploring the structure–property relationships of materials; developing new energy storage systems, such as aqueous Na/K-ion batteries

Name: Dr. Daniel Rettenwander
Affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7034 Trondheim, Norway
Interests: design and development of new materials for energy applications; solid-state batteries

Name: Prof. Dr. Qiang Sun
Affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: topological quantum materials for energy applications; design of new materials with machine learning; computational design of battery materials, thermoelectric materials, CO₂ conversion materials, hydrogen storage materials, multifunctional 2D materials, and cluster-based materials

Name: Prof. Dr. Kaixue Wang
Affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: synthesis of inorganic functional materials and construction of nanocomposite systems; preparation and properties of key electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries and new energy storage devices

Name: Dr. Jianqing Zhao
Affiliation: College of Energy, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
Interests: Li/Na-ion batteries; electrode materials; electrochemistry; energy storage and conversion; in situ XRD characterizations