Dr. Shuhui Sun is a professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, center for Energy, Materials, and Telecommunications (INRS-EMT) in Montreal, Canada, where he directs the Laboratory of Sustainable Nanotechnology. His current research interests focus on the development of multi-functional nanomaterials (graphene, CNTs, MOF, metal and metal oxides) for Energy and Environment, including PEM fuel cells (low-Pt and Pt-free catalysts), Li-ion and Na-ion batteries, Metal-air batteries, as well as Wastewater treatment. He received a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the University of Western Ontario (Canada) and M.Sc./Ph.D. in Physics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published 10 book chapters, 1 book, and over 100 peer reviewed journals articles, including Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy, and holds 2 US patents. He has been invited to present his research findings at over 100 conferences, workshops, seminars, and institutions worldwide. He is the recipient of various prestigious fellows and awards, such as the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellow (2017), Fellow of the Global Young Academy (2017), the Canada Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal (2012), NSERC-Alexander Graham Bell Canada fellowship (2009), The 1st Prize of Natural Science Award of Anhui Province (2014), Quebec Merits fellowship (2007). He is the Vice President of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES). He serves as the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Electrochemical Energy Reviews (EER) (Springer- Nature), and the editorial board member for another 5 journals related to nanomaterials and energy. Dr. Andy (Xueliang) Sun is a professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier I) for the development of nanomaterials for clean energy, at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and Fellow of Royal Society of Canada in 2016. His current research interests are associated with electrochemical energy storage and conversion. Dr. Sun received his Ph.D degree in Materials Chemistry at the University of Manchester, UK, in 1999. After his Ph.D in UK, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the University of British Columbia, Canada, during 1999-2001. He was a Research Associate at the National Institut de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Quebec, Canada, during 2001-2004 before Dr. Sun joined the University of Western Ontario in 2004. Dr. Sun is an author and co-author of over 280 refereed-journals, two books and 15 book chapters, including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (JACS), Nano Letters, and Energy and Environmental Science. His work was cited over 13,000 times with H-index of 60. He holds 10 US patents. Dr. Sun is actively collaborating with industries and government labs such as Ballard Power Systems, General Motors, Lithium Phostech Inc., 3M and China Automotive Battery Institute Inc. Dr. Sun received various awards such as Early Researcher Award (2006), University Faculty Scholar Award (2010) and Western Engineering Prize for Achievement in Research (2013). He also serves as an Editor-in-Chief for "Electrochemical Energy Reviews’ (Springer- Nature) and an Associate Editor for Frontier of Energy Storage (2013-present). Dr. Sun is a Vice-Chairman of in the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy (IAOEES). Dr. Zhongwei Chen is a professor & Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy, Director of Collaborative Graduate Program in Nanotechnology and Director of Applied Nanomaterials & Clean Energy Laboratory at University of Waterloo. His current research interests are in the development of advanced energy materials for metal-air batteries, lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from the University of California - Riverside. Prior to joining the faculty at Waterloo in 2008, he was focusing on the advanced catalysts research by the Chancellor's Dissertation Fellowship in the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) at New Mexico, His current research is on advanced materials for fuel cells, batteries, and sensors. He has published 1 book, 6 book chapters and more than 170 peer reviewed journal articles including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, Nano Letters and ACS Nano. These publications have earned him to date over 10,000 citations with H-index 50 (Google Scholar). He is also listed as inventor on 18 US/international patents, with three start-up companies in USA and Canada. Dr. Chen also serves as an editorial board member for peer-reviewed journals including Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing), and the Vice President of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Scienc
