Prof. Yuping Wu

Prof. Yuping Wu is a chair professor in Southeast University in the field of Energy Storage acting as the Executive Dean of Z Energy Storage Center, Southeast University, which is targeting on edge-cutting solutions to energy storage. He got Ph. D. degree from Institute of Chemistry, CAS, China, and worked in Tsinghua University, Waseda University (JST Fellowship), Chemnitz University of Technology (Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship), Fudan University, and Nanjing Tech University, respectively. Since 1994 he has been on research on energy chemistry and its key materials. So far he published over 560 papers on peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie, Energy & Environmental Sciences, and JACS with H-index of >110, and 10 books in Chinese and English. His researches such as aqueous rechargeable batteries (ARBs), nonporous separators, hybrid capacitors, and electroactive materials as solid electrolytes are pioneering over the world, and some of his researches were successfully put into mass production. For example, his technology by modifying nature graphite as negative electrode for lithium ion batteries in the early of 2000s opens a cost-down way via innovation instead of the classic scale-up one, and greatly reduces the cost of lithium ion batteries. This benefits customers for such as mobile phones, portable computors and electric vehicles. Due to his contributions, China is leading over the world on power lithium ion batteries and electric vehicles. He got some prizes such as one of the Most Influential Minds over the World by Thomson Reuters (current Clarivate) in 2015, less than 20 every year, from the Highly Cited Researchers over the World. In addition, he is founding editor-in-chief of Energy Materials (IF=11.8).