Changhong Wang is currently an Assistant Professor at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo. He received his MS degree in Material Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2014 and his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Material Engineering from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in 2020. Before joining EIAS, He was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland at College Park and a Visiting Researcher at UWO. So far, he has published 120 SCI papers, of which 55 papers (as the first or corresponding author) were published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Chemistry, Nature Chemical Engineering, Nature Communications (4), Science Advances (2), Joule (2), J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2), Adv. Mater. (4 ), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (4), and Energy & Environmental Science (3). These papers have been cited more than 13,000 times in total, with a personal H-index of 66. He has been listed among Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers and World's Top 2% Scientists.
Focusing on key materials and key technologies for all-solid-state batteries, the research mainly contains the following directions:
(1) Solid-state electrolyte development;
(2) All-solid-state lithium/sodium battery interface research;
(3) All-solid-state electrode and cell design;
(4) In-situ characterization techniques;
(5) Theoretical calculations.
2016.09—2020.01: Ph.D. (Mechanical and Materials Engineering), The University of Western Ontario
2011.09—2014.06. M.E. (Materials Engineering). University of Science and Technology of China
2007.09—2011.06. B.S. (Applied Chemistry), Anhui Science and Technology University
2023—present, Assistant Professor, College of Science, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo
2022—2023, Visiting Researcher, The University of Western Ontario, Canada (Advisor: Prof. Xueliang Sun)
2022—2023, Banting Scholar, University of Maryland, USA, (Supervisor: Prof. Chunsheng Wang)
2021—2022, R&D director, GLABAT Solid-State Battery Inc.
2020—2021, Senior Scientist, GLABAT Solid-State Battery Inc.
2014—2016, Research Assistant, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Google Scholar：
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=brq6AJcAAAAJ&hl=en
Web of Science
https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AAV-4047-2021
10 Representative Publications (* refers to the corresponding author)
[2] Y. Hu+, H. Su+, J. Fu+, J. Luo, Q. Yu, F. Zhao, W. Li, S. Deng, Y. Liu, Y. Yuan, Y. Gan, Y. Wang, J. T. Kim, N. Chen, M. Shakouri, X. Hao, Y. Gao, T. Pang, N. Zhang, M. Jiang, X. Li, Y. Zhao, J. Tu, C. Wang*, X. Sun*,Solid solvation structure design improves all-solid-state organic batteries, Nat. Chem. 2025, 1.
[3] J. T. Kim, H. Su, Y. Zhong, C. Wang, H. Wu, D. Zhao, C. Wang*, X. Sun*, Y. Li*, All-solid-state lithium–sulfur batteries through a reaction engineering lens, Nat. Chem. Eng.2024, 1, 400.
[4] H. Su, Y. Zhong*, C. Wang*, Y. Liu, Y. Hu, J. Li, M. Wang, L. Jiao, N. Zhou, B. Xiao, X. Wang, X. Sun*, J. Tu*, Deciphering the critical role of interstitial volume in glassy sulfide superionic conductors, Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 2552.
[5] J. T. Kim, A. Rao, H.-Y. Nie, Y. Hu, W. Li, F. Zhao, S. Deng, X. Hao, J. Fu, J. Luo, H. Duan, C. Wang*, C. V. Singh*, X. Sun*, Manipulating Li2S2/Li2S mixed discharge products of all-solid-state lithium sulfur batteries for improved cycle life, Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 6404.
[6] Y. Liu, J. Fu, M. Geng, D. Wang, S. Xia, Z. Yu, P. Lu, Y. Wang, Q. Cheng, F. Zeng, J. Shi, C. Wang*, X. Sun*, B. Zhang*, In-situ building halide-alloy dual-phase interfaces for dendrite-free sulfide solid-state batteries, Adv. Mater. 2025, e15756.
[7] X. Hao+, Z. L. Dong+, J. Ma+, W. Li+, J. Fu, X. Yao, X. Lin, F. Zhao, Y. Sun, Y. Hu, Y. Gao, C. Wang*, X. Sun*, A Universal Solid Reaction Enabling Nanosized Li2S in an Amorphous Matrix for All-Solid-State Li-S Batteries, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025.
[8] H. Duan+, C. Wang+, X.-S. Zhang, J. Fu, W. Li, J. Wan, R. Yu, M. Fan, F. Ren, S. Wang, M. Zheng, X. Li, J. Liang, R. Wen, S. Xin, Y.-G. Guo*, X. Sun*, Amorphous AlOCl Compounds Enabling Nanocrystalline LiCl with Abnormally High Ionic Conductivity,J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 29335.
[9] C. Wang, T. Deng, X. Fan, M. Zheng, R. Yu, Q. Lu, H. Duan, H. Huang, C. Wang, X. Sun, Identifying soft breakdown in all-solid-state lithium battery, Joule 2022, 6, 1770.
[10] C. Wang+, J. Liang+, J. Luo, J. Liu, X. Li, F. Zhao, R. Li, H. Huang, S. Zhao, L. Zhang, J. Wang, X. Sun,A universal wet-chemistry synthesis of solid-state halide electrolytes for all-solid-state lithium-metal batteries, Sci. Adv. 2021, 7, eabh1896.
2022. 06. The First Prize of the 2nd BTR New Energy Technology Competition
2022,05—2024,04. Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
2020. Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
2018.01—2020.01. MITACS Accelerate Scholarship
