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Overview

Chao Lai is affiliated with Jiangsu Normal University in China and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and materials science. Their work encompasses a broad range of studies focused primarily on electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, automotive engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and biomedical engineering.

Their research topics include advanced battery materials and technologies, advancements in battery materials, advanced battery technologies research, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, MXene and MAX phase materials, and graphene research and applications.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Lai are the following:

  • In situ construction of zinc-rich polymeric solid-electrolyte interface for high-performance zinc anode, 2023, eScience
  • Stabilizing lithium metal anode by octaphenyl polyoxyethylene-lithium complexation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Polymer gel electrolytes for flexible supercapacitors: Recent progress, challenges, and perspectives, 2020, Energy Storage Materials
  • Electrolyte Salts and Additives Regulation Enables High Performance Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries: A Mini Review, 2021, Small
  • Hierarchical Co3O4@N-Doped Carbon Composite as an Advanced Anode Material for Ultrastable Potassium Storage, 2020, ACS Nano

Lai frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Chuang Sun
  • Shanqing Zhang
  • Qinghong Wang
  • Peng Huang
  • Xingxing Gu

Lai's publications appear often in specialized journals, with multiple works featured in:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Rare Metals
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A

The extensive number of publications across these venues highlights Lai's focused engagement in the scientific community related to materials science and engineering disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Surface capacitive contributions: Towards high rate anode materials for sodium ion batteries

    Sheng Li;Jingxia Qiu;Chao Lai;Min Ling

  • Conductive carbon nanofiber interpenetrated graphene architecture for ultra-stable sodium ion battery.

    Mingkai Liu;Peng Zhang;Zehua Qu;Yan Yan

  • Microporous bamboo biochar for lithium-sulfur batteries

    Xingxing Gu;Yazhou Wang;Chao Lai;Jingxia Qiu

  • A porous nitrogen and phosphorous dual doped graphene blocking layer for high performance Li–S batteries

    Xingxing Gu;Xingxing Gu;Chuan-jia Tong;Chao Lai;Jingxia Qiu

  • Cationic Surfactant-Based Electrolyte Additives for Uniform Lithium Deposition via Lithiophobic Repulsion Mechanisms

    Hongliu Dai;Kai Xi;Xin Liu;Chao Lai

  • A Hierarchical Silver-Nanowire-Graphene Host Enabling Ultrahigh Rates and Superior Long-Term Cycling of Lithium-Metal Composite Anodes.

    Pan Xue;Shuiren Liu;Xinlei Shi;Chuang Sun

  • Stabilizing lithium metal anode by octaphenyl polyoxyethylene-lithium complexation

    Hongliu Dai;Xingxing Gu;Jing Dong;Chao Wang

  • Enhanced Sulfur Transformation by Multifunctional FeS2/FeS/S Composites for High-Volumetric Capacity Cathodes in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.

    Kai Xi;Deqing He;Chris Harris;Yuankun Wang

  • Hydrogenation Synthesis of Blue TiO2 for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Jingxia Qiu;Sheng Li;Evan MacAlpin Gray;Hong Wei Liu

  • Polymer gel electrolytes for flexible supercapacitors: Recent progress, challenges, and perspectives

    Hongliu Dai;Gaixia Zhang;Diane Rawach;Chaoying Fu

  • Nitrogen, sulfur-codoped graphene sponge as electroactive carbon interlayer for high-energy and -power lithium–sulfur batteries

    Ling-Bao Xing;Kai Xi;Qiuyan Li;Zhong Su

  • Regulating liquid and solid-state electrolytes for solid-phase conversion in Li–S batteries

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  • Electrolyte Salts and Additives Regulation Enables High Performance Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries: a Mini Review

    Yixun Du;Yang Li;Ben Bin Xu;Terence Liu

  • A conductive interwoven bamboo carbon fiber membrane for Li–S batteries

    Xingxing Gu;Xingxing Gu;Chao Lai;Fei Liu;Wenlong Yang

  • Hierarchical Co3O4@N-Doped Carbon Composite as an Advanced Anode Material for Ultrastable Potassium Storage

    David Adekoya;Hao Chen;Hui Ying Hoh;Tim Gould

  • A hybrid carbon aerogel with both aligned and interconnected pores as interlayer for high-performance lithium–sulfur batteries

    Mingkai Liu;Mingkai Liu;Zhibin Yang;Hao Sun;Chao Lai

  • Ti3C2Tx MXene Interface Layer Driving Ultra-Stable Lithium-Iodine Batteries with Both High Iodine Content and Mass Loading.

    Chuang Sun;Chuang Sun;Xinlei Shi;Yabo Zhang;Jiajie Liang

  • 3D printing nanocomposite gel-based thick electrode enabling both high areal capacity and rate performance for lithium-ion battery

    Chuang Sun;Shuiren Liu;Xinlei Shi;Chao Lai

  • Cyclohexanedodecol-Assisted Interfacial Engineering for Robust and High-Performance Zinc Metal Anode

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  • Housing Sulfur in Polymer Composite Frameworks for Li–S Batteries

    Luke Hencz;Hao Chen;Han Yeu Ling;Yazhou Wang

  • Designing Li-protective layer via SOCl2 additive for stabilizing lithium-sulfur battery

    Sheng Li;Hongliu Dai;Yahui Li;Chao Lai

  • A type of sodium-ion full-cell with a layered NaNi0.5Ti0.5O2 cathode and a pre-sodiated hard carbon anode

    Hongbo Wang;Yazhou Xiao;Chuang Sun;Chao Lai

  • Resilient mesoporous TiO2/graphene nanocomposite for high rate performance lithium-ion batteries

    Jingxia Qiu;Chao Lai;Yazhou Wang;Sheng Li

  • Hydrogenation synthesis of blue TiO2for high-performance Lithium-Ion batteries

    Jingxia Qiu;Sheng Li;Evan Gray;Hongwei Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Shanqing Zhang
Shanqing Zhang Griffith University
Kai Xi
Kai Xi University of Cambridge
Huijun Zhao
Huijun Zhao Griffith University
Jiajie Liang
Jiajie Liang Nankai University
Dongjiang Yang
Dongjiang Yang Qingdao University
R. Vasant Kumar
R. Vasant Kumar University of Cambridge
Min Ling
Min Ling Zhejiang University
Jianmin Ma
Jianmin Ma Hunan University
Hongwei Liu
Hongwei Liu Xidian University
Chenghua Sun
Chenghua Sun Swinburne University of Technology

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