Rate My Professor Qing Zhao

Professor Qing Zhao serves as a distinguished researcher and doctoral supervisor in the College of Chemistry at Nankai University. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Nankai University in 2012 and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Nankai University in 2017. He completed postdoctoral research at Cornell University from 2017 to 2021 before returning to Nankai University as a professor in 2021. His research centers on interphase chemistry between electrodes and electrolytes as well as rechargeable batteries, with particular emphasis on metal batteries, solid-state electrolytes, and related materials. He has authored or co-authored more than 70 publications with an H-index of 40, including approximately 30 papers as first or co-first author in leading journals such as Science, Nature Energy, Nature Reviews Materials, Science Advances (two papers), PNAS, Chemical Reviews, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (four papers), Advanced Materials (two papers), Joule (two papers), Nano Letters (two papers), Advanced Energy Materials, and ACS Energy Letters. He holds 11 patents, five of which have been authorized.

Professor Zhao was selected for the Young Talent Promotion Project of the Chinese Chemical Society covering 2020 to 2022. He also received the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation award from Nankai University and Tianjin in 2017, along with the First Prize of the 1st BTR New Energy Science and Technology Competition in 2021. His contributions include work on solid-state polymer electrolytes, reversible epitaxial electrodeposition of metals for battery anodes, electrolytes with polymer-like glass-forming properties, and stabilization of metal battery anodes through solid electrolyte interphase design.