Xuning Feng

Xuning Feng

Xuning FENG, Associate Professor in School of Vehicle Mobility, Tsinghua University, leading a battery safety research team. He has established comprehensive calorimetric methods for characterizing the reaction sequence of battery thermal runaway. Failure mechanisms, especially the anode-driven reaction zone model, were revealed for high-energy lithium-ion batteries. Based on the proposed mechanisms, he proposed anti-failure strategies including the intrinsic safety, the active safety and the passive safety technologies. He and his team’s discoveries and inventions filled the gaps between material research and battery application scenarios, facilitating the usage of new electrochemical energy storage materials, accelerating the reliable utilization of high-energy lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles, energy storage stations, electric ships, electric scooters, smart phones etc. He is participating in making battery standard and conducting accident investigations. He has visited University of Michigan (2014), Imperial College London (2017), and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (2018), keeping international collaboration with many battery safety researchers. He has received funding from China MoST, NSFC, and widely from new energy industries, average 8 mil. RMB per year. He has more than 80 granted patents, 160+ publications in Web of Science, with 19000+ citations in Google Scholar. He was awarded by MIT Technology Review as China Innovators Under 35, and Clarivate (2022, 2023) Highly-Cited Researcher.