Contact Electrification and Triboelectricity
Biography
Di Wei works to define iontronics as a new technological paradigm by programming ion–electron interactions for energy, information, chemical reactions, and intelligent systems. He serves as the principal investigator at BINN and heads the Iontronics Laboratory. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (MEASA); an external member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters; a foreign member of the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Finland (LSTV); a life senior member of Wolfson College, Cambridge University; and a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (FEurASc), the National Academy of Inventors (FNAI), USA, the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK, as well as the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (FIMMM) UK. He has published over 200 papers in journals of international repute, including Nat. Energy, Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv., PNAS, Joule, Matter, Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Energ. Environ. Sci., Chem. Soc. Rev. etc. as first or corresponding author. Prof. Wei also holds a portfolio of over 200 international patents (including PCT). Notably, more than 120 patents have been successfully granted, many of which have been transferred to leading companies like Nokia in Finland and Lyten in the United States. Additionally, Prof. Wei has edited 6 books on nanotechnology for energy and information technology. He has previously led the Flexible Energy sub-project of the EU Graphene Flagship as a representative of Nokia, served as a symposium chair at multiple international conferences, and delivered numerous keynote and plenary lectures. He has been listed among the global top 2% of scientists in both the lifetime and annual rankings compiled by Stanford University and Elsevier. He has also been invited to deliver featured lectures at Stanford University, Cambridge University, EPFL, and Turku University in Finland. His achievements have been recognized by the First Prize of the Nokia Global Innovation and Excellence Award, the Brian Conway Prize in Physical Electrochemistry from the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), as well as several other awards from the ISE and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK.
