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Meng Jiashen


Basic Information

Date of Birth: November 1992  

Academic Title: Specially Appointed Professor / Associate Professor  

Highest Degree: Doctor of Engineering


Main Research Directions:

1. New molten salt electrochemical energy storage battery systems for grid-scale energy storage  

2. Key materials and technologies for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles  

3. New technologies for solid waste recycling (spent batteries, waste plastics, petrochemical by-products, etc.)  

4. Artificial intelligence-enabled battery materials research and development


Affiliation:School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology

Address: Room 101, West Campus Library  

Email: jsmeng@whut.edu.cn  

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2972-8815  

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jiashen-Meng/research


Education

2015/09–2020/06: Wuhan University of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. (Supervisor: Professor Mai Liqiang)  

2018/08–2019/09: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Ph.D. Training (Supervisor: Professor Donald R. Sadoway)  

2014/11–2015/08: Peking University, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Joint Training (Supervisor: Professor Guo Xuefeng)  

2011/09–2015/06: Wuhan University of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree (Supervisor: Professor Mai Liqiang)


Work Experience

2023/06–present: Wuhan University of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Specially Appointed Professor  

2020/09–2023/06: Peking University, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Postdoctoral Fellow (Co-supervisors: Professor Pang Quanquan, Professor Zou Ruqiang)


Talent Programs  

1. Young Top-notch Talent of Wuhan University of Technology (2025)  

2. Chutian Scholar Program of Hubei Province (2023)  

3. Hubei Provincial Postdoctoral Pioneer Talent Tracking Support Program (2024)  

4. Postdoctoral Innovation Talent Support Program (2021)


Awards and Honors

1. First Prize for Natural Science of Hubei Province (3rd Contributor, 2021)  

2. Second Prize for Science and Technology Progress of Hubei Province (5th Contributor, 2024)  

3. First Prize for Technology Invention of China Building Materials Science and Technology Award (9th Contributor, 2024)  

4. First Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award of China Invention Association (6th Contributor, 2020)  

5. Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2024)  

6. Stanford University Top 2% of Scientists in the World (2020–2025)  

7. Outstanding Supervisor of Excellent Bachelor’s Thesis of Wuhan University of Technology (2025)  

8. National Second Prize Advisor of the 19th “Challenge Cup” Open Competition (2024)  

9. National Second Prize Advisor of the China Youth Science and Technology Innovation “Open Competition” (2025)


Research Projects (Principal Investigator / Participant)  

1. Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation Young A Project: Research on Key Technologies of High-Performance Molten Salt Aluminum-Ion Batteries, Principal Investigator  

2. National Key R&D Program of China: Multimodal In Situ Characterization Technology for Ion Transport in Electrode Materials, Principal Investigator  

3. National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Scientist Fund: Structural Design and Fast-Charging Lithium Storage Mechanism of High-Entropy Titanium/Niobium-Based Oxides, Principal Investigator  

4. Postdoctoral Innovation Talent Support Program: Construction and Energy Storage Mechanism of Novel Medium-Temperature Molten Salt Aluminum–Sulfur Batteries, Principal Investigator  

5. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation General Program: Construction and Mechanism Study of Novel Medium-Temperature Molten Salt Aluminum–Nitrogen Batteries, Principal Investigator  

6. Enterprise Commissioned Project: Key Technologies and Application Research of Composite Copper Current Collectors for High-Energy-Density Lithium-Ion Batteries, Principal Investigator  

7. Enterprise Commissioned Project: Key Technologies for High-Value Conversion of Petrochemical By-Products Driven by Molten Salts and Their Energy Storage Applications, Principal Investigator  

8. National Key R&D Program of China: Key Technologies for Structure and Function Repair of Cathode and Anode Materials from Spent Batteries, Participant  

9. National Key R&D Program of China: Key Materials Design and Interface Study of All-Solid-State Lithium–Sulfur Batteries Based on Functional Sulfide Electrolytes, Participant  

10. Major Science and Technology Project of Hubei Province: Key Technology Research on Water-Based Binders for Power Batteries and Wide-Temperature-Range Hybrid Adhesives, Participant


Selected Representative Papers (Last 5 Years)

  1. Wu X.L.,Zhao Y.Q.,Wang Y.,Xiao Z.T.,Huang J.L.,Zhang H.,Jia Y.F.,Zhu L.J.,Zhang M.,Tong X.,Du L.Z.,Wang X.P.*,Meng J.S.*,Pang Q.Q.*,A FastCharging Aluminum-Sulfurized Polyacrylonitrile Battery Enabled by Electrochemical Activation in Molten Salts. Joule, 2026, 10, 102341.

  2. Zhu L.J., Xiao Z.T., Meng J.S.*, Jia Y.F., Zheng C.X., Liu F., He M.X., Shen K.E., Li B., Hong X.F., Ma Y., Safari M., Pang Q.Q.*, Dynamic Alloying Codeposition/Costripping for Dendrite-Less Multivalent Metal Batteries. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2026, 148, 10980-10989.

  3. Xiao Z.T., Jia Y.F., Meng J.S.*, Hong X.F., Zhu L.J., He M.X., Shen K.E., Song H.M., Yan Y.J., Ye G., Ma Y., Zheng C.X., Pang Q.Q.*, Chloroaluminate Molten Salts for Low-Temperature Electrochemical Recycling of Layered Metal Oxide Cathodes. Adv. Mater., 2026, 3, e12984.

  4. GengL.S.;MengJ.S.*; WangX.P.; WuW.D.; HanK.; HuangM.; HanC.H.;WuL.; LiJ.H.; ZhouL.*; Mai L.Q.*,Organic-Solvent-FreePrimarySolvationShell forLow-TemperatureAqueousZincBatteries,Chem, 2025, 11, 102302.

  5. SongY.B., GaoW., ZhouC.*, ShenC.L., YuY.K., JiJ., DongC.X.,OzoemenaK., Xu X.*,MengJ.S.*, PangQ.Q.*, Revealing the Catalysis Modes for Sulfur Conversion Kinetics in Molten Salt Aluminum-Sulfur Batteries, Adv. Mater., 2025, 37, 2502662.

  6. ZhangM., TongX., ZhuL.J., LiuF.*, JiaY.F., XiaoZ.T.,FuD.H., HanK., Yu Wang, ZhangH., WangX.P., MengJ.S.*PangQ.Q.*,Selective facet etching enables dendrite-less molten salt aluminum metal batteries. Natl. Sci. Rev., 2025, 12, nwaf233.

  7. Pang Q.*,Meng J.S., Gupta S., Hong X.F., Kwok C.Y., Zhao J., Jin Y.X., Xu L.K., Karahan O.,Wang Z.Q., Toll S., Mai L.Q., Nazar L.F., Balasubramanian M., Narayanan B.,Sadoway D.R.*,Fast-Charging Aluminium-Chalcogen Batteries Resistant to Dendritic Shorting.Nature, 2022, 608, 704-711.

  8. Meng J.S., HongX.F.,Xiao Z.T., Xu L.H., Zhu L.J., Jia Y.F., Liu F., Mai L.Q.*, Pang Q.*,Rapid-ChargingAluminium-SulfurBatteriesOperated at 85 °C with a QuaternaryMoltenSaltElectrolyte.Nat. Commun., 2024, 15, 596.

  9. Meng J.S., YaoX.H., HongX.F., ZhuL.J., XiaoZ.T., JiaY.F., LiuF., SongH.M., ZhaoY.L., PangQ.*, A Solution-to-Solid Conversion Chemistry Enables Ultrafast-Charging and Long-Lived Molten Salt Aluminium Batteries. Nat. Commun., 2023, 14, 3909.

  10. Meng J.S., Xiao Z.T., Zhu L.J., Zhang X., Hong X.F., Jia Y.F., Liu F.,Pang Q.*, Fluorinated Electrode Materials for High-Energy Batteries. Matter, 2023, 6, 1685-1716.

  11. Que L.F., Wu J.H., Lan Z., Xie Y.M., Yu F.D.*, Wang Z.B.*,Meng J.S.*, Zhang X.C.*,Potassium-Based Dual-Ion Batteries Operating at −60 °CEnabled By Co-Intercalation Anode Chemistry.Adv. Mater., 2023, 35, 2307592.

  12. Liu F., Meng J.S.*, Jiang G.P., Li J.T., Wang H., Xiao Z.T., Yu R.H., Mai L.Q.*, Wu J.S.*, Coordination Engineering of Metal Single Atom on Carbon for Enhanced and Robust Potassium Storage. Matter, 2021, 4, 4006-4021.