Li Baohua

Prof. Li graduated with his Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Shandong University in 1997, later receiving a doctorate in Chemical Technology from the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002. He then served as a postdoctoral researcher at GSST for 2 years. In 2004, Prof. Li started his teaching career at GSST, where he is currently a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.

The research of Prof. Li mainly focuses on the composition optimization, interface building and structure design of advanced electrochemical energy storage materials, he has proposed the design principle of a series of highly stable and highly efficient electrolytes and electrodes towards commercial lithium ion batteries as well as the next-generation energy storage systems. Until now, Prof. Li has published more than 240 SCI papers on electrochemical energy storage with a citation of about 8000 times, these include 16 ESI highly cited papers and 2 ESI hot papers. Moreover, he holds 77 Chinese and foreign patents, and 30 patent technology has been used in practical applications.

Associate editor, Energy & Environmental Materials

Professor&Director, Department of Energy and Environment, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University. 

Director, Materials and device testing center, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University. 

Director, Industrial Energy Conservation and Green Development Evaluation Center, National Ministry of Industry and Information.

Director, Advanced Battery and Material Engineering Research Center of Guangdong.

Director, Joint Laboratory for Standardization of Power Batteries.

Deputy director, National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Functional Carbon Materials.

Secretary general, Industrial-Academic-Research Advanced Battery and Material Technology Innovation Alliance of Guangdong.

President, Shenzhen Institute of Power Technology.

Deputy director, Technical Committee for Standardization of Electric Vehicles.

Committee member, Academic Committee of Guangdong Key Laboratory of Thermal Management Engineering and Materials.

1. Qidi Wang^*, Zhenpeng Yao, Jianlin Wang, Hao Guo, Chao Li, Dong Zhou, Xuedong Bai, Hong Li^*, Baohua Li^*, Marnix Wagemaker^* & Chenglong Zhao^*, Chemical short-range disorder in lithium oxide cathodes.Nature, 2024, 629, 341–347.

2. Yao Wang, Xu Yang, Yuefeng Meng, Zuxin Wen, Ran Han, Xia Hu, Bing Sun, Feiyu Kang, Baohua Li^*, Dong Zhou^*, Chunsheng Wang^*, and Guoxiu Wang^*,Fluorine Chemistry in Rechargeable Batteries: Challenges, Progress and Perspectives.Chemical Reviews, 2024,124 (6), 3494-3589.

3. Xia Hu, Zhijia Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Yao Wang, Xu Yang, Xia Wang, Miryam Fayena-Greenstein,Hadas Alon Yehezkel , Steven Langford, Dong Zhou^*, Baohua Li^*, Guoxiu Wang^* & Doron Aurbach^*,External-pressure–electrochemistry coupling in solid-state lithium metal batteries. Nature Reviews Materials, 2024, 9, 305–320.

4. Ziyao Gao, Chenglong Zhao^*, Kai Zhou, Junru Wu, Yao Tian, Xianming Deng, Lihan Zhang, Kui Lin, Feiyu Kang, Lele Peng^*, Marnix Wagemaker^* & Baohua Li^*, Kirkendall effect-induced uniform stress distribution stabilizes nickel-rich layered oxide cathodes.Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 1503.

5. Hao Du, Yadong Wang, Yuqiong Kang, Yun Zhao^*, Yao Tian, Xianshu Wang, Yihong Tan, Zheng Liang^*, John Wozny, Tao Li^*, Dongsheng Ren, Li Wang, Xiangming He, Peitao Xiao, Eryang Mao, Naser Tavajohi^*, Feiyu Kang, Baohua Li^*,Side Reactions/Changes in Lithium-Ion Batteries: Mechanisms and Strategies for Creating Safer and Better Batteries. Advanced Materials, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202401482.

6. Yuefeng Meng, Dong Zhou^*, Ruliang Liu, Yao Tian, Yifu Gao, Yao Wang, Bing Sun, Feiyu Kang, Michel Armand^*, Baohua Li^*, Guoxiu Wang^* & Doron Aurbach^*, Designing phosphazene-derivative electrolyte matrices to enable high-voltage lithium metal batteries for extreme working conditions. Nature Energy, 2023, 8, 1023–1033.

7. Yun Zhao, Yuqiong Kang, John Wozny, Jian Lu, Hao Du, Chenglei Li, Tao Li, Feiyu Kang, Naser Tavajohi & Baohua Li^*, Recycling of sodium-ion batteries. Nature Reviews Materials, 2023, 8, 623–634.

8. Yanyan Wang, Zhijie Wang, Wei Kong Pang, Wilford Lie, Jodie A.Yuwono, Gemeng Liang, Sailin Liu, Anita M.D' Angelo, Jiaojiao Deng, Yameng Fan, Kenneth Davey, Baohua Li^*, Zaiping Guo^*,Solvent control of water O-H bonds for highly reversible zinc ion batteries. Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 2720.

9. Xu Yang, Bao ZhangYao Tian, Yao Wang, Zhiqiang Fu, Dong Zhou^*, Hao Liu, Feiyu Kang, Baohua Li^*, Chunsheng Wang^*, Guoxiu Wang^*, Electrolyte design principles for developing quasi-solid-state rechargeable halide-ion batteries. Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 925.

10. Xia Hu, Jiahao Yu, Yao Wang, Weiqian Guo, Xiang Zhang, Michel Armand, Feiyu Kang, Guoxiu Wang,^* Dong Zhou,^* and Baohua Li^*,A Lithium Intrusion-Blocking Interfacial Shield for Wide-Pressure-Range Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries. Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 2308275.

11. Junru Wu, Ziyao Gao, Yao Tian, Yun Zhao, Yilong Lin, Kang Wang, Hexin Guo, Yanfang Pan, Xianshu Wang^*, Feiyu Kang, Naser Tavajohi, Xiulin Fan, Baohua Li^*, Unique Tridentate Coordination Tailored Solvation Sheath Toward Highly Stable Lithium Metal Batteries. Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 2303347.

12. Zhijia Zhang, Xu Yang, Peng Li, Yao Wang, Xin Zhao, Javad Safaei, Hao Tian, Dong Zhou^*, Baohua Li^*, Feiyu Kang^*, Guoxiu Wang^*, Biomimetic Dendrite-Free Multivalent Metal Batteries. Advanced Materials, 2022, 34, 2206970.

13. Junru Wu，Xianshu Wang, Qi Liu, Shuwei Wang, Dong Zhou^*, Feiyu Kang, Devaraj Shanmukaraj, Michel Armand^*, Teofilo Rojo, Baohua Li^*, Guoxiu Wang^*, A synergistic exploitation to produce high-voltage quasi-solid-state lithium metal batteries. Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 5746.

14. Xianshu Wang, Shuwei Wang, Huirong Wang, Wenqiang Tu, Yun Zhao, Song Li, Qi Liu, Junru Wu, Yongzhu Fu, Cuiping Han^*, Feiyu Kang, and Baohua Li^*, Hybrid electrolyte with dual-anion aggregated solvation sheath for stabilizing high Voltage lithium metal batteries.Advanced Materials, 2021, 33, 2007945.

15. Qidi Wang, Zhenpeng Yao, Chenglong Zhao, Tomas Verhallen, Daniel P Tabor, Ming Liu, Frans Ooms, Feiyu Kang, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Yongsheng Hu, Marnix Wagemaker*, Baohua Li^*, Interface chemistry of an amide electrolyte for highly reversible lithium metal batteries. Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 4188.

16. Chenglong Zhao, Qidi Wang, Zhenpeng Yao, Jianlin Wang, Benjamín Sánchez-Lengeling, Yaxiang Lu^*, Xuedong Bai, Baohua Li, Hong Li, Alán Aspuru-Guzik^*, Xuejie Huang, Claude Delmas^*, Marnix Wagemaker^*, Liquan Chen, Yongsheng Hu^*,Rational design of layered oxide materials for sodium-ion batteries.Science, 2020, 370, 708.

17. Lihan Zhang, Xianying Qin^*, Shiqiang Zhao, Aurelia Wang, Jun Luo, Zhong Lin Wang, Feiyu Kang, Zhiqun Lin^*, Baohua Li^*, Advanced matrixes for binder‐free nanostructured electrodes in lithium-ion batteries. Advanced Materials, 2020, 32, 1908445.

18. Dongqing Liu, Zulipiya Shadike, Ruoqian Lin, Kun Qian, Hai Li, Kaikai Li, Shuwei Wang, Qipeng Yu, Ming Liu, Swapna Ganapathy, Xianying Qin, QuanHong Yang, Marnix Wagemaker^*, Feiyu Kang, Xiao‐Qing Yang^*, Baohua Li^*, Review of recent development of in situ/operando characterization techniques for lithium battery research. Advanced Materials, 2019, 31,1806620.

19. Xiaofu Xu, Dong Zhou, Xianying Qin, Kui Lin, Feiyu Kang, Baohua Li^*, Devaraj Shanmukaraj, Teofilo Rojo, Michel Armand^*, Guoxiu Wang^*, A room-temperature sodium-sulfur battery with high capacity and stable cycling performance.Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 3870.

20. Qingwen Lu, Yanbing He, Qipeng Yu, Baohua Li^*, Yusuf Valentino Kaneti, Youwei Yao, Feiyu Kang, Quanhong Yang^*, Dendrite-free, high-rate, long-life lithium metal batteries with a 3D cross-linked network polymer electrolyte. Advanced Materials, 2017, 1604460.

21. Tianhong Zhou, Wei Lv^*, Jia Li, Guangmin Zhou, Yan Zhao, Shaoxun Fan, Bilu Liu, Baohua Li^*, Feiyu Kang, Quanhong Yang^*, Twinborn TiO₂-TiN hetero structures enabling smooth trapping-diffusion-conversion of polysulfides towards ultralong life lithium-sulfur batteries. Energy & Environmental Science, 2017, 10, 1694-1703.

22. Baohua Li, Cuiping Han, Yanbing He, Cheng Yang, Hongda Du, Quanhong Yang^*, Feiyu Kang^*, Facile synthesis of Li₄Ti₅O₁₂/C composite with super rate performance. Energy & Environmental Science, 2012, 5, 9595-9602.