2001    Harvard University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology    Ph.D.

1996    Peking University, Chemistry and Molecular Engineering    M.S.

1993    USTC, Materials Science and Engineering    B.S.

2022 – Pres.    Global Institute of Future Technology, SJTU    Professor

2018 – Pres.    School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University    Professor

2009 – 2020    Suzhou Institute of Nanotech and Nanobionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences    Professor

2009 –2014    SINANO    Vice Director

2009 –2012    i-Lab, SINANO    Deputy Director

2004 –2008    Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Ohio University, Athens, Ohio    Assistant Professor

2001 –2004    Joint Appointment at Columbia University  and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center     Postdoctoral Research Fellow

• Energy electrochemistry

• In-situ characterization, scanning probe and electron microscopies

• Advanced battery materials

2016    Outstanding Young Investigator Award, Natural Science Foundation of China 

2011 - 2014    Global Young Academy

2009    Hundred Talent Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Richard J. Lewis*, Kenji Ueura, Xi Liu*, Yukimasa Fukuta, Thomas E. Davies, David J. Morgan, Liwei Chen, Jizhen Qi, James Singleton, Jennifer. K. Edwards, Simon J. Freakley, Christopher J. Kiely, Yasushi Yamamoto, Graham J. Hutchings*, “Highly efficient catalytic production of oximes from ketones using in situ–generated H2O2” Science, 376, 615–620 (2022)

• Guoyong Xue, Jing Li, Junchao Chen, Daiqian Chen, Chenji Hu, Lingfei Tang, Bowen Chen, Ruowei Yi, Yanbin Shen*, Liwei Chen*, “A Single-Ion Polymer Superionic Conductor” Acta Phys.-Chim. Sin. 2205012 (2022)

• Jing Li, Jizhen Qi, Feng Jin, Fengrui Zhang, Lei Zheng, Lingfei Tang, Rong Huang, Jingjing Xu, Hongwei Chen, Ming Liu, Yejun Qiu*, Andrew I. Cooper*, Yanbin Shen*, and Liwei Chen*, “Room Temperature All Solid-State Lithium Batteries Based on a Soluble Organic Cage Ionic Conductor” Nat. Commun. 13:2031(2022)

• Chenji Hu, Jizhen Qi, Yixiao Zhang, Sijie Xie, Baotong Liu, Guoyong Xue, Daiqian Chen, Qinfeng Zheng, Ping Li, Shou-hang Bo, Yanbin Shen* and Liwei Chen*, “Room Temperature All-Solid-State Sodium Battery Based on Bulk Interfacial Superionic Conductor” Nano Lett. 21, 24, 10354–10360 (2021)

• Ziwei Hong, Houcai Dong, Shaojie Han, Weihong Li, Qingyu Dong, Yingqian Cao, Xiuling Gao, Yixiao Zhang*, Wei Lu*, Liwei Chen*, “Nail penetration-safe LiNi0.6Co0.2Mn0.2O2 pouch cells enabled by LiMn0.7Fe0.3PO4 cathode safety additive” J. Power Sources, 512, 230505 (2021)

• Ruowei Yi, Yayun Mao, Yanbin Shen*, Liwei Chen*, “Self-assembled Monolayers for Batteries” J. Am. Chem. Soc.143, 33, 12897 (2021)

• Cheng Wang, Junqi Lai, Qi Chen*, Fujun Zhang, and Liwei Chen*, “In-operando visualization of interfacial band bending in photomultiplying organic photodetectors” Nano Lett. 21, 8474–8480 (2021)

• Chenji Hu, Yanbin Shen*, Ming Shen, Xi Liu, Hongwei Chen, Chenghao Liu, Tuo Kang, Feng Jin, Li Li, Jing Li, Yiqiu Li, Ning Zhao, Xiangxin Guo, Wei Lu, Bingwen Hu*, Liwei Chen*, “Superionic Conductors via Bulk Interfacial Conduction” J. Am. Chem. Soc.142, 18035-18041 (2020).

• Qi Chen, Cheng Wang, Yaowen Li, and Liwei Chen*. “Interfacial Dipole in Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells”. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142, 18281−18292 (2020)

• Yanli Chu, Yanbin Shen*, Feng Guo, Xuan Zhao, Qingyu Dong, Qingyong Zhang, Wei Li, Hui Chen, Zhaojun Luo, and Liwei Chen*, “Advanced Characterization of Solid Electrolyte Interphase in Lithium-ion Batteries” Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 3,187-219 (2020)

2019 - Pres.    Associate editor, Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica

Editorial board, Nano Research, Electrochemistry, Science Bulletin (Chinese Edition)

Application evaluator for: National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Science Foundation, USA, Petroleum Research Foundation, National Research Council Canada,  Israel Science Foundation, Helmholtz Association Germany, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab etc.

2020    The leading co-organizer of Symposium 20 under the 71st ISE Annual Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia

2018    Co-organized Symposium ET01 Solid State Battery in MRS Fall meeting, Boston

2013-Pres.    Head of the user committee for Hard X-ray Nanoprobe Beamline, Shanghai Light Source

Physical Chemistry