Associate Prof. Yifu Zhang works in School of Chemical Engineering at Dalian University of Technology (DUT). He received his bachelor's degree (2008) and Ph. D. degree (2013) from Wuhan University. During 2018.12–2019.12, he worked with Prof. John Wang as a visiting scholar at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore. His current research focuses on vanadium oxides, silicates and their carbon composites for energy storage and conversation including supercapacitors, aqueous Zn-ion batteries and oxygen evolution reaction. He has published >140 papers in SCI journals. He is selected as the Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar (2019) and RSC Highly Cited Top 1% (2019) and Outstanding Reviewer for Nanoscale Advances (2020).