Hui-Ming Cheng - Biography#
Prof. Hui-Ming Cheng graduated from Hunan University, China in 1984 and received his Ph. D in 1992 from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is now the founding director of the Institute of Technology for Carbon Neutrality, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS, and concurrently the Chief Scientist of Institute of Metal Research, CAS. He used to work at Kyushu Research Center of AIST and Nagasaki University, Japan as a research associate from 1990 to 1993, and MIT, USA from 1997 to 1998 as a senior visiting scholar.
He was elected as a member of CAS in 2013 and a fellow of TWAS in 2014. He was a distinguished Vice Chancellor’s Fellow of the University of Surrey, UK from 2019 to 2024, and an Honorary Professor of the University of Queensland, Australia from 2006 to 2019.
Dr Cheng is a world-renowned scientist and innovator in materials science. He has made seminal contributions to single-wall carbon nanotubes, graphene and other 2D materials, and energy storage and conversion materials and devices. He pioneered a floating catalyst Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) method for single-wall carbon nanotubes, invented a green exfoliation process for graphene oxide, and has been leading energy storage research in China. He founded 10 start-up companies to fabricate graphite anode materials and carbon nanotube additives for lithium-ion batteries, graphene and 2D h-BN films with superhigh thermal conductivity for thermal management.
Dr. Cheng has about 950 publications (more than 153,000 citations and an H index of 178, Web of Science) and hods more than 300 patents. He is a Highly Cited Researcher in two fields of materials science and chemistry for many years. He has given over 230 plenary/keynote/invited lectures at various conferences, and won 5 Prestigious National Natural Science Awards of China from the State Council (the 2nd class in 2006, 2017, 2020 and 2024), Charles E. Pettinos Award from American Carbon Society in 2010, Felcht Award from SGL, Germany in 2015, and ACS Nano Lecture Award in 2017. He used to be an Editor of Carbon from 2000 to 2015, Editor-in-Chief of New Carbon Materials from 1998 to 2015, and Associate Editor of Science China Materials from 2014 to 2022. In 2014, he founded Energy Storage Materials (IF 18.9, one of the top tier journals on materials science by Elsevier) as the Editor-in-Chief.
Dr. Cheng has a strong engagement and collaborations with Europe institutions, for example, from 2001 to 2010, he collaborated with scientists and engineers at BP on a project “Facing the Future Clean Energy” between BP and CAS. As the leader of the Chinese team, he participated an EU 5th Framework project on Carbon Nanotube Composites led by Prof. John Robertson at University of Cambridge and contributed to the synthesis of carbon nanotubes.
