Current Professional Societies

1.Expert of Energy Storage and Hydrogen Energy for the Ministry of Science and Technology;

2.Executive Director of the IEEE PES Energy Storage Technical Committee;

3. Member of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Sciences;

4. Editorial Board of “Journal of Materials Science & Technology” and “Rare Metals”;

Research Areas

1. Lithium/Sodium/Aluminum ion batteries;

2. Solid state ion batteries;

3. Advanced energy storage devices.

Honors

1. Youth Beijing Scholar (2020)

2. Beijing Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scientists (2019)

3. National Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars (2016)

4. Beijing Youth Award(2016)

Publications

1. Shiqi Liu#, Boya Wang#, Xu Zhang, Shu Zhao, Zihe Zhang,Haijun Yu*. Reviving the Lithium-Manganese-based Layered Oxide Cathodes for Lithium-ion Batteries.Matter, 2021, accepted.

2. Tianhao Wu#, Xiang Liu#, Xu Zhang, Yue Lu, Boya Wang, Qingsong Deng, Yubo Yang, Errui Wang, Zhongtian Lyu, Yaoqian Li, Yongtao Wang, Yan Lyu, Cunfu He, Yang Ren, Guiliang Xu, Xueliang Sun, Khalil Amine, andHaijun Yu*. Full Concentration Gradient-Tailored Li-Rich Layered Oxides for High-Energy Lithium-Ion Batteries.Advanced Materials, 2020,33(2),2001358.

3. Errui Wang#, Yang Zhao#, Dongdong Xiao#, Xu Zhang, Tianhao Wu, Boya Wang, Muhammad Zubair, Yuqiang Li,Haijun Yu*, Xueliang Sun*. Composite Nanostructure Construction on Grain Surface of Li-Rich Layered Oxide.Advanced Materials, 2020. 1906070.

4. Heng Su#, Gencai Guo#, Yang Ren, Xiqian Yu, Xu Zhang, Tianyuan Ma, Yue Lu, Zihe Zhang, Hao Ma, Manling Sui, Hong Li, Chengjun Sun, Zonghai Chen, Guiliang Xu, Ruzhi Wang*, Khalil Amine* andHaijun Yu*. Local spring effect in titanium-based layered oxides.Energy & Environmental Science, 2020, 13, 4371-4380.

5. Haijun Yu*, Yeong-Gi So, Yang Ren, Tianhao Wu, Gencai Guo, Ruijuan Xiao, Jun Lu, Hong Li, Yubo Yang, Haoshen Zhou*, Ruzhi Wang, Khalil Amine, and Yuichi Ikuhara*.Temperature-sensitive structure evolution of lithium- manganese-rich layered oxides for lithium-ion batteries.Journal of the American Chemical Society，2018, 140, 15279–15289.

6. Haijun Yu^#, Yeong-Gi So^#, Akihide Kuwabara^#, Eita Tochigi, Naoya Shibata, Tetsuichi Kudo, Haoshen Zhou*, Yuichi Ikuhara*. Crystallinegraininterior configuration affects lithiummigration kinetics in Li-rich layered oxide.Nano Letters,2016,16(5), 2907–2915.

7. Haijun Yu, Yang Ren, Dongdong Xiao, Shaohua Guo, Yanbei Zhu, Yumin Qian, Lin Gu, Haoshen Zhou. An ultrahigh-stable anode for long-life room-temperature Na-ion batteries.Angewandte Chemie International Edition,2014, 53, 8963-8969.

8. Haijun Yu^#, Yumin Qian^#, Minoru Otani, Daiming Tang, Shaohua Guo, Yanbei Zhu and Haoshen Zhou*. Studies of the Lithium/Nickel Ions Exchange in the Layered LiNi_0.42Mn_0.42Co_0.16O₂Cathode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries: Experimental and First-Principles Calculations.Energy Environmental Science, 2014, 7, 1068-1078.

9. Haijun Yu^#, Ryo Ishikawa^#, Yeong-Gi So, Naoya Shibata, Tetsuichi Kudo, Haoshen Zhou*, Yuichi Ikuhara*. Direct observation of two phases in the Li_1.2Mn_0.567Ni_0.166Co_0.067O₂material for lithium-ion battery at atomic resolution.Angewandte Chemie International Edition,2013, 52,5969-5973.

10. Shaohua Guo^#, Pan Liu^#,Haijun Yu*, Yanbei Zhu, Mingwei Chen, Masayoshi Ishida, and Haoshen Zhou*. A Layered P2- and O3-Type Composite as a High-Energy Cathode for Rechargeable Sodium-Ion Batteries.Angewandte Chemie International Edition,2015,54, 5894 -5899.

Personal statement

Haijun Yuis a full professor at Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing，Beijing University of Technology (BJUT)since 2015. He obtained his B.E in 2003, and received his Ph.D in 2007 from Northeastern University, China. During the period (2007-2010) at General Research Institute for Non-ferrousMetals, he was workingas a senior engineeron the Ni-MH power battery and application. After that, in 2010-2015, he did research works on advanced battery materials at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. His researches involve the advanced materials for energy storage devices. Until now, Dr. Yu has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals includingJ. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Energy & Environ. Sci. etc. and filed 40 patents in the field of new energy materials. Currently, there are about 40 researchers in his group, including 3 associate professor, 4 assistant professor, 5 post doctor and also about 30 doctoral and graduate students, mainly researching on the advanced materials for batteries