Welcome Chunyi Zhi to serve as a new Editor on the board

Professor Chunyi Zhi‍ will join the Editorial Board of Materials Research Letters (MRL) in April 2021. Professor Zhi is currently a professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. His research insterests include energy storage materials, aqueous electrolyte batteries, and BCN nanostructures etc.

Professor Chunyi Zhi obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the Institute for Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004, specializing in the topic of property investigation of BCN nanostructures under the supervision of Professor Enge Wang.

Professor Chunyi Zhi has published more than 320 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Review Mater., Nature Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. In. Ed., ACS Nano, EES and Adv. Mater. etc. These publications generated an h-index of 86 and more than 23000 other-citations (ISI). Dr. Chunyi Zhi is editorial member of npj flexible electronics, rare metals and Green Energy & Environmental Science. Professor Zhi is a recipient of the outstanding research award for junior faculties and the President’s Award of City University of Hong Kong, NML award, and Beijing Science and Technology Award (first class). He is also RSC Fellow, Member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences, and Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2019, 2020 Materials Science).