Qinyou An is a researcher at Wuhan University of Technology. He graduated from Taiyuan University of Technology in 2008 with a major in Inorganic Non-metallic Materials. He obtained a master’s degree in Materials Processing Engineering from Hubei University of Technology in 2011 and a doctorate in Materials Chemistry and Physics from Wuhan University of Technology in 2014. He served as a postdoctoral fellow in Energy Storage Materials at the University of Houston from 2014 to 2015. He joined Wuhan University of Technology as an associate researcher in 2015. He was seconded to the Ministry of Science and Technology of China as an associate researcher from 2018 to 2019 and became a researcher in 2021. His research area is nano energy storage materials and devices. Focusing on this direction, he has carried out systematic basic research work such as the controllable growth of nanoelectrode materials, performance regulation, device assembly, in situ characterization, and electrochemical energy storage. He has achieved a series of innovative research results in the fields of lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, and magnesium-ion batteries. He has applied for more than 30 invention patents, 17 of which have been authorized. In addition to basic research, he is also committed to the design and production of lithium-ion power batteries for electric vehicles and actively promotes the industrialization process of new clean energy.