Personal information:

Feipeng Zhao is a Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) of Soochow University, China. He took this faculty position in January 2025. Before that, he was a Mitacs Postdoc Fellow at Western University, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Materials Engineering from Western University in 2021. He obtained B.S. and M.S. in Materials Engineering from Soochow University in 2014 and 2017, respectively. He is working on the synthesis and characterizations of key materials and interfaces for next-generation all-solid-state batteries.

Research direction:

• Creation and Development of Key Materials and Technologies for All-Solid-State Batteries

• System Design and Advanced Characterization of Novel High-Performance Batteries

• Development and Integrated Engineering of Electrode Materials for Supercapacitors

• Sustainable High-Value Transformation of Battery Electrode and Electrolyte Materials

Recruitment:

1. We warmly welcome undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students who are interested in scientific research to study, exchange and visit our research group at Suzhou. The admission majors are "Materials Science and Engineering" (080500) and "Nanoscience and Engineering" (140600). Students with materials, chemistry and other related majors are welcome to apply. Please feel free to contact me at feipeng@suda.edu.cn if you have any questions.

2. Post-doctoral recruitment: We sincerely welcome domestic and overseas candidates with professional background in energy-storage materials synthesis, electrochemical energy storage, advanced characterization and other associated fields to join the research group as postdoctoral researchers and research assistants. We will provide a competitive salary package (for details, please see: https://bsh.suda.edu.cn/60/54/c18126a548948/page.htm.) The outstanding postdoctoral researchers will be provided with the opportunity to study or work abroad.

Qualifications: 1. Have research enthusiasm, research innovation ability and team spirit; 2. Good English writing skills; 3. Publish more than 2 SCI papers or 1 top journal in the field of chemistry and materials as the first or corresponding author.

Application materials: A CV (including study, work experience, research background, published papers, awards and supporting materials) should be sent by E-mail to feipeng@suda.edu.cn. Eligible candidates will receive an email response within a week.

Selected publications:

1. Zhao, F., et al. Science 2025, Just Accepted.

2. Zhao, F.*; Li, Y.*. Halide Chemistry Boosts All-Solid-State Li-S Batteries, Advanced Materials 2025, 37, 28, 2501844.

3. Zhao, F.; Zhang, S.; Sun, X.*. A Perspective on the Origin of High-Entropy Solid Electrolytes, Advanced Materials2025, 37, 28, 2501544.

4. Zhao, F.; Zhang, S.; Sun, X.*, et al. Revealing Unprecedented Cathode Interface Behavior in All-Solid-State Batteries with Oxychloride Solid Electrolytes. Energy & Environmental Science 2024, 17, 4055-4063 (Inside Cover).

5. Zhao, F.; Alahakoon, S. H.; Adair, K.; Huang, Y.*; Sun, X.*, et al. An Air‐Stable and Li‐Metal‐Compatible Glass‐Ceramic Electrolyte enabling High‐Performance All‐Solid‐State Li Metal Batteries. Advanced Materials 2021, 33, 2006577.  (highlighted by CLS, Materials Views, etc.)

6. Zhao, F.; Liang, J.; Sun, X.*, et al. A Versatile Sn‐Substituted Argyrodite Sulfide Electrolyte for All‐Solid‐State Li Metal Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials 2020, 1903422. (ESI highly cited, invited as the cover feature, highlighted by Materials Views, etc.)

7. Zhao, F.; Sun, Q.; Yu, C.; Sun, X.*, et al. Ultrastable anode interface achieved by fluorinating electrolytes for all-solid-state Li metal batteries. ACS Energy Letters2020, 5, 1035-1043. (ESI highly cited)

8. Zhao, F.; Shen, S.; Cheng, L.; Li, Y.*; Lu, J.*, et al. Improved sodium-ion storage performance of ultrasmall iron selenide nanoparticles. Nano Letters 2017, 17, 4137-4142.

9. Zhang, S.#; Zhao, F.#; Sham, T.K.*; Sun, X.*, et al. A family of oxychloride amorphous solid electrolytes for long-cycling all-solid-state lithium batteries. Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 3780. (co-first author, the highest ionic conductivity reported in amorphous electrolytes, ESI highly cited)

10. Zhang, S,#; Zhao, F.#; Sun, X.*, et al. Amorphous Oxyhalide Matters for Achieving Lithium Superionic Conduction, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 2977−2985. (co-first author, ESI highly cited)

Edited by Juan Yang