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   Zhenlu Yu(喻桢璐


  Address: College of Energy Materials And Chemistry. Inner Mongolia Universitty, 010021 Hohhot (China)

                   Room 502, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.


  Email: zhenlu.yu8@imu.edu.cn











Education Experiences:


2014.09-2018.06: School of Shagang Iron and Steel, Soochow University, Metallurgical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering


2018.09-2021.06: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Metallurgical Engineering, Master of Engineering


2021.09-2025.04: Faculty of Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Applied Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


Research Interests:


Interface and electrolyte regulation of secondary ion (lithium, sodium, potassium) batteries


Application of nanoreactor materials in sulfur-based and iodine-based batteries

Major Outcomes



1. Zhenlu Yu, Qun Liu, Danni Wang, Jie Shi, Dengyun Zhai, Biao Zhang*, Unraveling Electrode Surface Chemistry in Determining Interphase Stability and Deposition Homogeneity for Anode-free Potassium Metal Batteries, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, 64, e202502091.

2. Zhenlu Yu#, Ke Fan#, Qun Liu, Danni Wang, Changsheng Chen, Ye Zhu, Haitao Huang, Biao Zhang*, Designing Electrolytes with Steric Hindrance and Film-Forming Booster for High-Voltage Potassium Metal Batteries, Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 34, 2315446.

3. Zhenlu Yu#, Changsheng Chen#, Qun Liu, Jie Liu, Mingxue Tang, Ye Zhu, Biao Zhang*, Discovering the Pore-Filling of Potassium Ions in Hard Carbon Anodes: Revisit the Low-Voltage Region, Energy Storage Materials, 2023, 60, 102805.

4. Zhenlu Yu, Qun Liu, Changsheng Chen, Ye Zhu, Biao Zhang*, Regulating the Interfacial Chemistry Enables Fast-Kinetics Hard Carbon Anodes for Potassium Ion Batteries, Journal of Power Sources, 2023, 557, 232592. (Invited for Special Issue: Interfacial phenomena in lithium batteries and beyond)

5. Zhenlu Yu#, He Huang#, Yunjian Liu*, Xingyu Qu, Yu Zhou, Aichun Dou, Mingru Su, Hong-hui Wu, Liang Zhang, Kehua Dai, Zaiping Guo, Tao Wan, Mengyao Li, Dewei Chu*, Design and Tailoring of Carbon-Al2O3 Double Coated Nickel-based Cation-disordered Cathodes towards High-performance Li-ion Batteries, Nano Energy, 2022, 96, 107071.

6. Zhenlu Yu, Xingyu Qu, Aichun Dou, Yu Zhou, Mingru Su, Yunjian Liu*, Carbon-coated Cation-disordered Rocksalt-type Transition Metal Oxide Composites for High Energy Li-ion Batteries, Ceramics International, 2021, 47, 1758-1765. (ESI高被引论文)

7. Zhenlu Yu, Xingyu Qu, Tao Wan, Aichun Dou, Yu Zhou, Xiaoqi Peng, Mingru Su, Yunjian Liu*, Dewei Chu*, Synthesis and Mechanism of High Structural Stability of Nickel-rich Cathode Materials by Adjusting Li-excess, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020, 12, 40393-40403.

8. Zhenlu Yu, Xingyu Qu, Aichun Dou, Mingru Su, Yunjian Liu*, Feixiang Wu*, Synthesis and Redox Mechanism of Cation-disordered, Rock-salt Cathode-material Li-Ni-Ti-Nb-O Compounds for a Li-ion Battery, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019, 11, 35777-35787.

9. Qun Liu*#, Zhenlu Yu#, Yunfeng Hu#, Mingcong Tang, Qingnuan Zhang, Meidan Ye*, Designing Advanced Separators Toward Lithium-Ion Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials, 2025, e03217. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202503217.