Education and Research Experience: 

• BS (2005), Xiamen University

• PhD (2011), Xiamen University

• 2009-2011, Research assistant, The University of Hong Kong

• 2011-2014, Postdoc research associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• 2014-2015, Postdoc fellow, The University of Texas at Austin

• 2015-2017, Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• 2017-2020, Manager of electrolyte group, Ningde Amperex Technology Limited

• 2020- present, Professor, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
  

Principal Research Interests:

1. Design and synthesis of energy storage materials for lithium ion batteries, sodium ion batteries, and so on

2. Structural and interface engineering to improve the long-term cycle life and safety of battery system

3. Functional electrolyte additives and recipes, to stabilize the electrode interface of high energy density battery system （high voltage, large electrode volume variation, etc.）

Selected Recent Publications:

1.   Jianming Zheng, Mark Engelhard, Donghai Mei, Shuhong Jiao, Bryant Polzin, Ji-Guang Zhang, Wu Xu, Electrolyte additive enabled fast charging and stable cycling lithium metal batteries, Nature Energy, 2, 17012, 2017.

2.  Pengfei Yan#, Jianming Zheng#,Jian Liu, Biqiong Wang, Xiaopeng Cheng, Yuefei Zhang, Xueliang Sun*, Chongmin Wang*, and Ji-Guang Zhang*, Tailoring grain boundary structures and chemistry of Ni-rich layered cathode for enhanced cycle stability of lithium-ion batteries, Nature Energy, 3 (7), 600–605, 2018.

3.  Pengfei Yan#, Jianming Zheng#,Zhen-Kun Tang#, ArunDevaraj, Guoying Chen, Khalil Amine, Ji-Guang Zhang, Li-Min Liu, and Chongmin Wang, Oxygen vacancies injection in the bulk lattice of layered cathodes, Nature Nanotechnology,14,602–608, 2019.

4.  Jianming Zheng, Shuru Chen,Wengao Zhao, Junhua Song, Mark Engelhard, Ji-Guang Zhang, Extremely Stable Sodium Metal Batteries Enabled by Localized High-Concentration Electrolytes, ACS Energy Letters, 3, 315–321, 2018.

5.  Jianming Zheng*, Pengfei Yan, Chongmin Wang, Ji-Guang Zhang*, Effect of calcination temperature on the electrochemical properties of nickel-rich LiNi0.76Mn0.14Co0.10O2 cathodes for lithium-ion batteries, Nano Energy, 49, 538–548,2018.

6.  Jianming Zheng, Seung Myeong, Woongrae Cho, Pengfei Yan, Jie Xiao, Chongmin Wang, Jaephil Cho, and Ji-Guang Zhang, Li- and Mn-Rich Cathode Materials: Challenges to Commercialization, Advanced Energy Materials, 7(6), 1601284, 2017.

7.  Jianming Zheng, Pengfei Yan, Donghai Mei, Mark H Engelhard, Samuel S Cartmell, Bryant J Polzin, Chongmin Wang, Ji-Guang Zhang, Wu Xu, Highly Stable Operation of Lithium Metal Batteries Enabled by the Formation of a Transient High-Concentration Electrolyte Layer, Advanced Energy Materials, 6(8), 1502151, 2016.

8.  Jianming Zheng, Jie Xiao, and Ji-Guang Zhang, The roles of oxygen non-stoichiometry on the electrochemical properties of oxide-based cathode materials, Nano Today, 11(5), 678–694, 2016.

9.  Jianming Zheng*, Joshua Lochala, Alexander Kwok, Zhiqun Deng, Jie Xiao*, Research progress towards understanding the unique interfaces between concentrated electrolytes and electrodes for Energy Storage Applications, Advanced Science, 4(8), 1700032, 2017.

10.  Jianming Zheng#, MengGu#, ArdaGenc, Jie Xiao, PinghongXu, Xilin Chen, Zihua Zhu, Wenbo Zhao, Lee Pullan, Chongmin Wang and Ji-Guang Zhang, Mitigating Voltage Fade in Cathode Materials by Improving the Atomic Level Uniformity of Elemental Distribution, Nano Letters, 14 (5), 2628–2635, 2014.