Prof. Dr. Xiang Liu has served as a second-level professor, doctoral supervisor, and member of the academic committee of the School of Energy Science and Engineering at Nanjing Tech University. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from Sichuan University and Fukui University, Japan, in 1988 and 1998, respectively. He served as a research fellow at the Zeon Research Center in Japan from 1998 to 2011. He served as chief scientist at Shenzhen BTR New Energy Materials Co., Ltd. from 2011 to 2012. He is a candidate for the National High-level Talent Program. In recent years, he has presided over key R&D plans of the Ministry of Science and Technology and major projects of the National Defense Science, Technology and Industry Commission for import substitution. He has published more than 60 academic papers in internationally renowned journals such as J. Mater. Chem. A, ACS Appl. Mater. Interf., J. Power Sources, Energ Environ. Sci., Adv. Mater., and has applied for 60 invention patents, of which 8 were authorized in Japan, 1 in the United States, and 26 in China, and 3 of his achievements have been transformed. His research interests include Polymer-based organic-inorganic nanocomposites, Lithium-ion battery negative electrode materials, and Polymer hollow microspheres.