We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Johan E. ten Elshof (University of Twente, the Netherlands), Prof. Dr. Prashant N. Kumta (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Prof. Dr. Junji Akimoto (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan), Prof. Dr. Mingtao Li (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China), Dr. Yaxiang Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Dr. Daniel Rettenwander (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway), Prof. Dr. Qiang Sun (Peking University, China), Prof. Dr. Kaixue Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), and Dr. Jianqing Zhao (Soochow University, China) to the Editorial Board of the Section “Battery Materials and Interfaces: Anode, Cathode, Separators and Electrolytes or Others” in Batteries (ISSN: 2313-0105), and we look forward to their contributions to the continued success of the journal.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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