Jiadeng Zhu is a principal investigator and team lead at Brewer Science Inc. He received his B.S in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science from Soochow University and Ph.D. in Fiber and Polymer Science from North Carolina State University. He received the Editors’ Choice award from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (ACS 2023) and the Best of Advanced Materials Technologies 2021 (Wiley-VCH, 2022). He has published 10 book chapters and more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers, with an h-index of 45 (Google Scholar). In addition to actively serving as a reviewer/referee for more than 100 journals and foundations, he has been a guest editor for multiple journals and an early career editorial board member for the journal Carbon Trends. His current research interests mainly focus on the applications of advanced polymers and carbon materials in energy and environmental areas, including but not limited to energy storage/conversion, lightweight structural materials, printed/wearable electronics, smart textiles, filtration, sensor fabrication and testing, and sensor integration.