Rate My Professor Yong Lu

Yong Lu is a Distinguished Researcher at the College of Chemistry and Institute of Applied Chemistry and Engineering at Nankai University. He earned his Ph.D. from Nankai University in 2020, followed by postdoctoral research at the same institution from 2020 to 2024. In 2024, he was appointed to his current position.

His research focuses on organic materials and their applications in batteries, including solid-state batteries. He investigates the design and preparation of electrode materials, electrode/electrolyte interfaces, battery device construction, and underlying working mechanisms. Lu has authored more than 100 papers that have received over 10,000 citations, with an H-index of 50. He has published numerous works as first or corresponding author in leading journals, including one in Nature Reviews Chemistry, one in Accounts of Chemical Research, four in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, seven in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, one in Advanced Materials, and one in National Science Review. Notable recent publications include papers on cathode electrolyte interphase regulation for lithium-organic batteries (2025), anion-induced bridged electrolyte design (2025), and prospects of organic electrode materials for practical lithium batteries (2020). He has received the National Outstanding Young Talent award in 2024 and the Young Talent Promotion Program from the China Association for Science and Technology in 2023.