Dr. Xiaogang Han is a professor in Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in China. He graduated from Shanxi University with a bachelor degree in material chemistry in 2000, and later on pursued his doctoral studies with Prof. Zhaoxiang Deng at the University of Science and Technology of China. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree in 2009, he continued to work on inorganic nanomaterial synthesis and application in the next two years as a postdoc with Prof. Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside. Then, Dr. Han joined in Prof. Liangbing Hu’ research group at University of Maryland at College Park where he started his researches on electrochemical energy storage including solid-state lithium batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, sodium ion batteries, graphene supercapacitor, etc. In 2015, he became an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland. In 2016, he started to work at XJTU with a Young Talent Plan, mainly focusing on the studies of solid-state lithium batteries, lithium metal protection, and holey graphene applications. He so far has published about 50 research papers on scientific journals including Nat. Mater, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., Nano Lett., and ACS Nano. From 2016, he has been an executive director for Xi’an nanotechnology and nanoscience society, and also associate editor for Frontier-Energy Research.

2016-Present: Professor

School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University

2011-2016: Associate Researcher

Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

2009-2011: Postdoctoral Researcher    

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

2003-2009: Ph.D. degree

Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

2000-2003: A Chemistry Teacher

Affiliated High School of Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

1996-2000: B.S. degree

Department of Chemistry, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China