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Materials Science
Canada
2026

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Materials Science

D-Index
148
Citations
77639
World Ranking
171
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Zhongwei Chen is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research focuses on Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Automotive Engineering, and Polymers and Plastics.

Their work prominently covers various topics including Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies, Advancements in Battery Materials, Advanced Battery Technologies Research, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication, and Fuel Cells and Related Materials.

Chen has published numerous papers in well-known scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Advanced Materials
  • Nano Energy
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chen include:

  • Dan Luo
  • Aiping Yu
  • Xin Wang
  • Haozhen Dou
  • Yongguang Zhang

Some of Chen's recent published papers are:

  • A review of composite solid-state electrolytes for lithium batteries: fundamentals, key materials and advanced structures, 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • New Concepts in Electrolytes, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • Recycling of mixed cathode lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles: Current status and future outlook, 2020, Carbon Energy
  • Developing high safety Li-metal anodes for future high-energy Li-metal batteries: strategies and perspectives, 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Design strategies for nonaqueous multivalent-ion and monovalent-ion battery anodes, 2020, Nature Reviews Materials

Chen has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019 for contributions acknowledged by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • 30 Years of Lithium-Ion Batteries.

    Matthew Li;Matthew Li;Jun Lu;Zhongwei Chen;Khalil Amine;Khalil Amine;Khalil Amine

  • Batteries and fuel cells for emerging electric vehicle markets

    Zachary P. Cano;Dustin Banham;Siyu Ye;Andreas Hintennach

  • A review on non-precious metal electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells

    Zhongwei Chen;Drew Higgins;Aiping Yu;Lei Zhang

  • Electrically Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives

    Jing Fu;Zachary Paul Cano;Moon Gyu Park;Aiping Yu

  • Automotive Li-Ion Batteries: Current Status and Future Perspectives

    Yuanli Ding;Zachary P. Cano;Aiping Yu;Jun Lu

  • A review of graphene and graphene oxide sponge: material synthesis and applications to energy and the environment

    Victor Chabot;Drew Higgins;Aiping Yu;Xingcheng Xiao

  • Low-Cost High-Performance Solid-State Asymmetric Supercapacitors Based on MnO2 Nanowires and Fe2O3 Nanotubes

    Peihua Yang;Yong Ding;Ziyin Lin;Zhongwei Chen

  • Supportless Pt and PtPd nanotubes as electrocatalysts for oxygen-reduction reactions.

    Zhongwei Chen;Mahesh Waje;Wenzhen Li;Yushan Yan

  • Silicon-Based Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries: From Fundamentals to Practical Applications.

    Kun Feng;Matthew Li;Wenwen Liu;Ali Ghorbani Kashkooli

  • A review of composite solid-state electrolytes for lithium batteries: fundamentals, key materials and advanced structures.

    Yun Zheng;Yuze Yao;Jiahua Ou;Matthew Li;Matthew Li

  • New Concepts in Electrolytes.

    Matthew Li;Matthew Li;Chunsheng Wang;Zhongwei Chen;Kang Xu

  • A Soluble and Highly Conductive Ionomer for High‐Performance Hydroxide Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

    Shuang Gu;Rui Cai;Ting Luo;Zhongwei Chen

  • High-Performance Anode Materials for Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Jun Lu;Zhongwei Chen;Feng Pan;Yi Cui;Yi Cui

  • Revisiting the Role of Polysulfides in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.

    Gaoran Li;Shun Wang;Yining Zhang;Matthew Li

  • Durability investigation of carbon nanotube as catalyst support for proton exchange membrane fuel cell

    Xin Wang;Xin Wang;Wenzhen Li;Zhongwei Chen;Mahesh Waje

  • One-pot synthesis of a mesoporous NiCo2O4 nanoplatelet and graphene hybrid and its oxygen reduction and evolution activities as an efficient bi-functional electrocatalyst

    Dong Un Lee;Bae Jung Kim;Zhongwei Chen

  • The application of graphene and its composites in oxygen reduction electrocatalysis: a perspective and review of recent progress

    Drew Higgins;Pouyan Zamani;Aiping Yu;Zhongwei Chen

  • Recent Progress in Electrically Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries

    Jing Fu;Ruilin Liang;Guihua Liu;Aiping Yu

  • Recycling of mixed cathode lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles: Current status and future outlook

    Tyler Or;Storm W. D. Gourley;Karthikeyan Kaliyappan;Aiping Yu

  • Interlayer Material Selection for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

    Linlin Fan;Matthew Li;Matthew Li;Xifei Li;Wei Xiao

  • Functionalized Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite Membrane for Low Humidity and High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

    Hadis Zarrin;Drew Higgins;Yu Jun;Yu Jun;Zhongwei Chen

  • Durability Investigation of Carbon Nanotube as Catalyst Support for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Electrode

    Mahesh Waje;Xin Wang;Wenzhen Li;Zhongwei Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Aiping Yu
Aiping Yu University of Waterloo
Drew Higgins
Drew Higgins McMaster University
Matthew Li
Matthew Li Argonne National Laboratory
Gaoran Li
Gaoran Li Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Zhengyu Bai
Zhengyu Bai Henan Normal University
Yushan Yan
Yushan Yan University of Delaware
Xiaolei Wang
Xiaolei Wang University of Alberta
Ya-Ping Deng
Ya-Ping Deng University of Waterloo
Jun Lu
Jun Lu Zhejiang University
Lin Yang
Lin Yang Henan Normal University

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