Dr. Xiangbo (Henry) Meng is currently an Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR, USA). Prior to joining University of Arkansas in 2016, Dr. Meng was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Energy Systems Division at Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL) from 2012 – 2016 and a Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012) in Chemistry Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, NY) from 2011 – 2012. Dr. Meng has completed two PhD degrees in Mechanical & Materials Engineering (2011) and in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering (2008) at the University of Western Ontario (ON, Canada). He worked as an Assistant Professor at the current institution during the period of 2016-2022. Dr. Meng has over 87 peer-reviewed journal papers, 7 book chapters, and 13 US Patents (Applications). Dr. Meng was the recipient of a Canada NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship and the nominee of Canadian CGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award (2009). Currently, Dr. Meng is serving in the Editorial Boards of Nanotechnology, Molecules, Journal of Composites Science, and Frontier in Energy Research. Dr. Meng’s research is focused on smartly designing novel nanophase materials for developing new energy storage devices (including lithium-ion batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, sodium-ion batteries, and so on).