Aimin LI

• Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong 

Ai-Min Li is an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He possesses an interdisciplinary research background, spanning organic chemistry, supramolecular assembly, crystalline materials (including MOFs, COFs, main-group clusters), and electrochemical engineering. Ai-Min received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany) in 2018, then joined the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) as a postdoctoral researcher, later promoted to an assistant research scientist in Prof. Chunsheng Wang’s group. His work addresses the broad interphase issues in many battery systems (from highly reactive lithium and sodium metal anodes to high-energy silicon anodes, to high-voltage Ni-rich and low-cost sulfur cathodes), which highlights the important role of chemistry knowledge in leveraging the stability between solvating media and conducting salts for effective interphase design. The outcome of Ai-Min’s research has been published in top-tier journals such as Nature Chemistry, Nature Energy, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, and Nature Sustainability, and featured by major media outlets such as Nature News, ScienceNet, and TechXplore. Ai-Min's lab at HKU aims to address critical challenges facing today’s energy storage using multidisciplinary knowledge and to provide insights from both fundamental and practical perspectives toward a sustainable and carbon-zero future. 

Molecular Electrolyte Design for Advanced Batteries