Associate Editor

Liu Yafei

　　Liu Yafei is the Dean of the Lithium Battery Materials Research Institute at Beijing Easpring Material Technology Co., Ltd. He is an expert receiving special government allowance from the State Council, a technical project evaluation expert for the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, a member of the Academic Committee of the “Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid-State Batteries” under the Ministry of Education, and a member of the Powder Metallurgy Subcommittee of the National Nonferrous Metals Standardization Committee. He also serves as an enterprise supervisor for the “Special Program for the Reform of Engineering Master and Doctoral Training” at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and holds the title of Senior Engineer.

　　For a long time, he has been engaged in the scientific research, development and industrialization of lithium-ion battery cathode materials and their precursors, solid-state lithium batteries, sodium-ion batteries, fuel cells and other related fields. He has won the Beijing Science and Technology Award and the Science and Technology Award of China Nonferrous Metals Industry many times. A number of high-performance materials developed by him took the lead in being exported to the international high-end battery market. He has published 1 monograph and 81 scientific and technological papers. He has applied for a total of 216 patents, including 22 PCT patents and 69 authorized patents. He has formulated or participated in 53 national, industrial and group technical standards, and presided over or participated in more than 69 scientific research and industrialization projects at the national, provincial and ministerial levels.

Wang Qingkai

　　Wang Qingkai is a Senior Engineer. He has been the Director of the Institute of Automation and Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optimal Manufacturing for Mineral Processing since 2017, and has been awarded the title of “Advanced Manufacturing Technology Talent” by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He has long been engaged in mineral processing automation and intellectualization, focusing on intelligent control, digital twin, fault diagnosis and big data application. He has presided over dozens of national projects, developed the first set of advanced mineral processing control software in China, which has been successfully applied in mines at home and abroad, realizing the whole-process intelligent optimization of grinding, flotation and thickening. He has won provincial and ministerial science and technology awards and many invention patents, and continuously leads the industrial practice of intelligent optimal manufacturing in the mining industry.

Huang Guojie

　　Huang Guojie is a Doctor of Engineering and a doctoral supervisor. He is mainly engaged in the research on preparation and processing technology of nonferrous metal materials. He has presided over and participated in more than 50 national and provincial/ministerial scientific research projects and topics, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key R&D Program, the National Science and Technology Support Program, and special projects of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In the course of his research, he has won 1 Second Class Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and 12 First Class Prizes of Provincial and Ministerial Science and Technology Progress Awards. He has published more than 100 academic papers, edited 4 books, obtained more than 50 authorized national invention patents, and participated in the formulation of 8 national standards. He was selected as a Beijing Science and Technology Nova in 2008 and awarded the title of the First National Outstanding Young Scientific and Technological Worker in Nonferrous Metals in 2014.