Personal profile：

Liu Yongchang, male, Han nationality, was born in April 1990 in Shanxi Hequ, member of the Communist Party of China, Ph.D., associate researcher, master tutor.

2007.09—2011.06 Beijing Jiaotong University,  Bachelor of Science

2011.09—2016.06 Nankai University, Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, Master's degree (Doctor of Engineering)

2016.07—2017.04 University of Science and Technology Beijing, Institute for Advanced Materials Technology, Lecturer Postdoctoral

2017.05—2017.06 University of Science and Technology Beijing, Institute for Advanced Materials Technology, distinguished associate researcher

2017.07—today University of Science and Technology Beijing, Institute for Advanced Materials Technology, associate researcher

He is mainly engaged in the design and development of nanomaterials and its application research in the field of energy storage and conversion. Since 2013, he has published more than 60 related SCI papers, which have been cited more than 2,000 times, H factor 23, and 10 papers selected for ESI Highly cited papers, 5 papers were selected as the cover.More than 20 academic papers published in authoritative journals such as Adv. Mater., Nano Lett., Adv. Funct. Mater., Mater. Horiz., Energy Storage Mater., Chem. Commun., Chem. Eur. J. by the first/communication authorAt the important academic conferences at home and abroad, more than 10 papers were published by the first author, and 3 national patents were applied. He is a member of the Chinese Chemical Society, a member of the Chinese Chemical Industry Association, a member of the American Electrochemical Society, and a reviewer of internationally renowned magazines of ACS, Wiley, RSC, Elsevier and Springer.He was selected as one of the country's first post-doctoral innovative talent support programs and won the 10th China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award.

Research direction：

◆Study on properties and mechanism of key electrode materials for sodium ion batteries

◆Lithium/sodium metal anode protection

◆ Reasonable design and controllable preparation of porous micro/nano materials

◆Synthesis of functional carbon materials (graphene, carbon nanotubes, carbon fiber, etc.) and their composites

◆Application of layered metal disulfide in energy storage and conversion

◆Application of electrospinning technology in energy storage and conversion

Scientific research achievement :

He presided over and participated in many projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, the basic research business fees of the Central Universities, the China Postdoctoral Science Fund, and the Key Laboratory Open Fund.He was awarded the China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award, the National Scholarship, the Zhou Enlai Scholarship of Nankai University, the Excellent Paper of the 17th and 18th National Electrochemical Conferences, and the China Silicate Society Inorganic Non-Metallic Materials High-Level Forum Research and Innovation Award and selected for the first batch of "Ph.D. New Plan".

Representative papers:

[1] Yongchang Liu, Ning Zhang, Lifang Jiao*, Jun Chen*, Tin Nanodots Encapsulated in Porous Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanofibers as a Free-Standing Anode for Advanced Sodium-Ion Batteries, Adv. Mater. 2015, 27, 6702-6707. (IF=19.79)

[2] Yongchang Liu, Ning Zhang, Chuanming Yu, Lifang Jiao, Jun Chen*, MnFe₂O₄@C Nanofibers as High-Performance Anode for Sodium-Ion Batteries, Nano Lett. 2016, 16, 3321-3328. (IF=12.71)

[3] Yongchang Liu, Ning Zhang, Lifang Jiao*, Zhanliang Tao, Jun Chen*, Ultrasmall Sn Nanoparticles Embedded in Carbon as High-Performance Anode for Sodium-Ion Batteries, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2015, 25, 214-220. (IF=12.12)

[4] Yongchang Liu, Ning Zhang, Fanfan Wang, Xiaobin Liu, Lifang Jiao, Li-Zhen Fan*, Approaching the Downsizing Limit of Maricite NaFePO₄ towards High-Performance Cathode for Sodium-Ion Batteries, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1801917. (IF=12.12)

[5] Shang-Sen Chi#, Yongchang Liu#, Wei-Li Song, Li-Zhen Fan*, Qiang Zhang*, Prestoring Lithium into Stable 3D Nickel Foam Host as Dendrite-Free Lithium Metal Anode, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2017, 27, 1700348. (#co-first author, IF=12.12)

[6] Yongchang Liu, Yang Li, Hongyan Kang, Ting Jin, Lifang Jiao*, Design, Synthesis, and Energy-Related Applications of Metal Sulfides, Mater. Horiz. 2016, 3, 402-421. (IF=10.71)

[7] Yongchang Liu, Ning Zhang, Xiaobin Liu, Chengcheng Chen, Li-Zhen Fan*, Lifang Jiao*, Red Phosphorus Nanoparticles Embedded in Porous N-Doped Carbon Nanofibers as High-Performance Anode for Sodium-Ion Batteries, Energy Storage Mater. 2017, 9, 170-178. (IF=12.38)

[8] Yongchang Liu, Li-Zhen Fan*, Lifang Jiao*, Graphene Highly Scattered in Porous Carbon Nanofibers: a Binder-Free and High-Performance Anode for Sodium-Ion Batteries, J. Mater. Chem. A 2017, 5, 1698-1705. (IF=8.86)

[9] Yongchang Liu, Ning Zhang, Hongyan Kang, Minghui Shang, Lifang Jiao*, Jun Chen*, WS₂ Nanowires as a High-Performance Anode for Sodium-Ion Batteries, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 11878-11884. (IF=5.32)

[10] Yongchang Liu, Yanping Zhao, Lifang Jiao*, Jun Chen, A Graphene-Like MoS₂/Graphene Nanocomposite as a Highperformance Anode for Lithium Ion Batteries, J. Mater. Chem. A 2014, 2, 13019-13115. (IF=8.86)