Natural Protein-based Strategies For Batteries

Dr Chenxu Wang is a Research Associate at the Batteries and Energy to Advance Commercialization and National Security (BEACONS) center in Dallas, Texas, USA. He earned his PhD from Washington State University in 2023 under the supervision of Dr Weihong Zhong. He has been engaged in battery research since 2016 and has approximately one year of industry experience in battery manufacturing. His research focuses on anodes, cathodes, separators, electrolytes, battery recycling, and automated synthesis and characterization. He serves as a Youth Editorial Board member for Exploration and a Guest Editor for Batteries. In 2023, he received the Outstanding Dissertation Award and the Outstanding Research Assistant Award at Washington State University. As the lead author, he has published 10 peer-reviewed journal articles and one book.

Dr Wei-Hong Zhong is Professor at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University (WSU), USA, where she was previously Westinghouse Distinguished Professor (2012–2020). She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 2016). She has won several awards, including the Academic Advisor Excellence Award (WSU, 2013), Outstanding Researcher Awards (WSU, 2011, 2013), and the Dow Chemical Composites Educator of the Year Award (Society of Plastic Engineering, 2011). She has published two books and over 300 peer-reviewed papers, with an H-index of 56.