Dr. Qinglu Fan | Renewable Energy | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Qinglu Fan | YiBin Vocational And Technical College | China

Dr. Qinglu Fan is a lecturer at YiBin Vocational and Technical College, specializing in materials science and engineering with a research focus on nickel-based layered cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries. She earned her doctoral degree at Guangdong University of Technology from 2016 to 2021 and conducted research as a visiting Ph.D. student at Binghamton University from 2019 to 2021. Her work centers on interface and bulk regulation of Ni-rich layered cathode materials to enhance their electrochemical performance, stability, and efficiency. She has published more than ten papers as the first author in international journals, including Journal of Power Sources, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Applied Materials Today, and authored the book “Lithium-ion Battery Nickel-based Layered Cathode Materials and Its Modifications.” Her research is supported by multiple ongoing projects, including participation in the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as principal investigator of the Ph.D. Startup Fund at Yibin Vocational and Technical College, and leadership of the Academician Ouyang Minggao Workstation Youth Talent Development Fund. With an h-index of ten, she continues to contribute to the advancement of sustainable energy storage materials and innovative solutions for next-generation lithium-ion batteries.

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Featured Publications

Fan, Q., Li, X., Cheng, Y., Hu, Y., Ma, W., & Chen, Z. (2025). Enhanced cycling stability of nickel-rich single-crystal LiNi0.83Co0.12Mn0.05O2 at high voltage via low-temperature epitaxial rock-salt interface engineering. Journal of Materials Science.
Fan, Q., Li, X., Cheng, Y., Hu, Y., Ma, W., Almuqrin, A. H., Alodhayb, A. N., Chen, Z., & Shi, Z. (2025). Comprehensive investigation of the impact of calcination temperature-induced Li/Ni mixing on LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2. Materials Today Energy.
Fan, Q., Chen, Z., Ma, W., & Shi, Z. (2025). Examining the collaborative impact of a heterojunction TiO2 coating and Ti substitution on LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 via a single-step modification approach. Applied Materials Today.
Fan, Q. (2021). Heterojunction TiO2@TiOF2 nanosheets as superior anode materials for sodium-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
Fan, Q., Lin, K., Guan, S., Chen, J., Feng, S., Liu, L., & Shi, Z. (2021). Constructing high conductive composite coating with TiN and polypyrrole to improve the performance of LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 at high cutoff voltage of 4.5 V. ACS Applied Energy Materials.
Fan, Q. (2021). Can greener Cyrene replace NMP for electrode preparation of NMC 811 cathodes? Journal of The Electrochemical Society.

Dr. Guangxing Guo | Renewable Energy | Best Academic Researcher Award

Dr. Guangxing Guo | Yangzhou University | China

Dr. Guangxing Guo is a dedicated researcher in the field of wind energy with strong academic training and impactful contributions. He is pursuing a Doctor of Engineering degree at Yangzhou University, focusing on the application of artificial intelligence in wind energy, and also gained international academic exposure as a guest student at Aalborg University, Denmark. He earned a Master of Engineering degree from the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where his research centered on the structural performance of wind turbine blades, and a Bachelor of Engineering in New Energy Science and Engineering from Lanzhou University of Technology. His expertise covers aerodynamics, aeroelastic dynamics, structural dynamics, and computational fluid dynamics. To date, he has published 8 documents, including SCI-indexed works in Composite Structures, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, and Energies. His research has received 90 citations by 75 documents, with an h-index of 5, demonstrating growing academic recognition. He has also presented his work at international conferences, highlighting contributions to wind turbine blade design, wind farm noise reduction, and machine learning-based performance evaluation.

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Featured Publications

Guo, G., Zhu, W., Sun, Z., Fu, S., Shen, W., & Hua, Y. (2025). Large wind turbine blade design with mould sharing concept based on deep neural networks. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 73, 104131.

Guo, G., Zhu, W., Zhang, Z., Shen, W., & Chen, Z. (2025). Achieving power-noise balance in wind farms by fine-tuning the layout with reinforcement learning. Energies, 18(18), 5019.

Guo, G., Zhu, W., Sun, Z., Fu, S., Shen, W., & Cao, J. (2024). An aero-structure-acoustics evaluation framework of wind turbine blade cross-section based on gradient boosting regression tree. Composite Structures, 337, 118055.

Guo, G., Zhu, W., Sun, Z., Shen, W., Cao, J., & Fu, S. (2023). Drag reducer design of wind turbine blade under flap-wise fatigue testing. Composite Structures, 318, 117094.

Zhu, W., Liu, J., Sun, Z., Cao, J., Guo, G., & Shen, W. (2022). Numerical study on flow and noise characteristics of an NACA0018 airfoil with a porous trailing edge. Sustainability, 15(1), 275.

Li, S., Zhang, L., Xu, J., Yang, K., Song, J., & Guo, G. (2020). Experimental investigation of a pitch-oscillating wind turbine airfoil with vortex generators. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 12(6), 063304.