Lithium-ion Battery Safety

Zhirong Wang is the Dean of the College of Emergency Management at Nanjing Tech University, and the Director of the Key Laboratory of New Energy Storage Battery Safety and Emergency Technology in the petroleum and chemical industry. He has won the China Youth Science and Technology Award and the honor of leading talents in science and technology innovation under the National Ten Thousand Talents Plan. Additionally, he is honored as a Distinguished Professor of Jiangsu Province, receiving special funding for his contributions. He has been working at Nanjing Tech University since 2005. From 2013 to 2014, he was a visiting professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. His research interests include fire and explosion prevention and control, hazardous chemical safety, lithium-ion battery safety, hydrogen safety, etc. He has directed over 20 research projects, including one key project and one sub-project under the National Key R&D Program, five projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, and provincial and ministerial research projects. He has published over 200 SCI papers as the first author or corresponding author in renowned domestic and international journals, affirming his leadership in emergency management research. He has been authorized 5 international patents, and more than 40 Chinese invention patents. His extensive work has earned him prestigious awards such as the National Technological Progress Second Prize, the first prize of Invention and Innovation of China Association of Invention(gold medal), and the first prize of Science and Technology Progress of China, Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation.Dongxu Ouyang received his doctorate degree in 2021 at the State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, and is currently an associate professor at Nanjing Tech University. His research interests focus on lithium-ion battery safety evaluation, thermal management, and high-voltage electrolytes.Qiong Cai is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and a Professor in Sustainable Energy and Materials at the University of Surrey, UK. Her expertise is in multiscale materials modelling and design for sustainable energy conversion and storage applications including batteries, hydrogen production and utilisation, and catalytic chemical conversion. She obtained her MEng in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2003 and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh in 2007. Followed by postdoctoral research at Imperial College London, she joined the University of Surrey in 2012, where she was promoted to Professor in 2023.