Sheng S. Zhang (Shengshui Zhang) is a research chemist in the Battery Science Branch of the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL, formerly U.S. Army Research Laboratory). He earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, in 1993. Since his thesis work, he has been involved in research on various electrochemical energy storage devices, with recent focus on fast-charging Li-ion batteries, especially those with high-energy-density silicon-based anodes.