The Zhiqiang Niu Group
Lab of Aqueous Battery
Principal Investigator
Zhiqiang Niu is a Professor at College of Chemistry,
Nankai University. He received his PhD degree from
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. After his postdoctoral research in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), he started his independent research career as Hundred Young Academic Leaders of Nankai University since 2014. Niu has extensive research experience in materials chemistry, electrochemistry, and energy storage. His research interests focus on aqueous batteries. He has published more than 150 papers. All the papers have been cited more than 17000 times. He has been awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2024), the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (2018), the Tianjin Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2018), the First Prize of Tianjin Natural Science Award(R1)(2021), Chinese Chemical Society-Evonik Chemical Innovation Award-Outstanding Young Scientist (2021), Clarivate Highly-Cited Researcher 2020-2023.
Address: Nankai-Tianda United Building, Nankai Univeristy,
No. 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300071, China.
E-mail: zqniu@nankai.edu.cn
Phone: 022-27892967
Selected Publications
Research
Aqueous zinc battery shows great promising in the field of large-scale energy storage due to its high safety and low cost. However, there are still some challenges in the design of aqueous zinc battery. In their cathodes, the active materials often suffer from sluggish kinetics and structural destruction during the charge/discharge process, hindering the rate capability and cycling lifetime.To overcome these issues, some creative strategies were developed to modify the structure of active materials, such as ion doping, nano-carbon composite, crystal structure regulation and molecular design. In addition, in zinc anodes, zinc dendrite an
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