2018-01-26
On Jan. 24th, 2018, the Canadian Chemistry Society announced that Prof. Xueliang Andy Sun won the “2018 Award for outstanding research on material chemistry". The award ceremony will take place during the 101st Canadian Chemistry Conference which will be held in May 2018. The award, which has been selected annually since 2012, aims to be awarded to Canadian citizens/immigrants who made outstanding contributions to the materials chemistry while working in Canada. Among the winners in the past years, Prof. Xueliang Andy Sun is the first Chinese scientist to receive the award.
孙学良院士简介
Dr. Xueliang Andy Sun is a holder of Senior Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the development nanomaterials and energy conversion and storage, and a Full Professor at University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is also fellow of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada, fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering and Editor-in-Chief of Electrochemical Energy Reviews. Specifically, his research activities are currently focused on developing various approaches to synthesize nanomaterials and addressing challenges in low temperature fuel cells, Li-ion batteries and metal-Air batteries. Dr. Sun received his Ph.D degree in Materials Chemistry at the University of Manchester, UK, in 1999. After his Ph.D in UK, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the University of British Columbia, Canada, during 1999-2001. He was a Research Associate at the National Institute de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Quebec, Canada, during 2001-2004 before Dr. Sun joined the University of Western Ontario in 2004. Dr. Sun is an author and co-author of over 200 refereed-journals, two books and 13 book chapters, including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, J. Am. Chem. Soc.(JACS), and Energy and Environmental Science. His citations are over 6000 times. He holds ten US patents. Dr. Sun is actively collaborating with industries and government labs such as Ballard Power Systems, General Motors, Lithium Phostech Inc., and Canadian National Defence.
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