Chen Liquan, born on March 29, 1940 in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, is an expert in solid-state ionics and energy materials, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the technical director and doctoral supervisor of Beijing StarHeritage Power Supply Co.


Chen Liquan graduated from the Physics Department of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1964, and entered the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; he studied in the Solid State Institute of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science in West Germany from 1976 to 1978; he set up China's first Solid State Ionics Laboratory in the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980; and he was appointed as a member of the “863” program in 1987, the “7th Five-Year Plan”. “In 1987, he became the chief leader of the energy storage materials (lithium polymer batteries) project of the “Seventh Five-Year Plan”; in 1999, he took the lead in the establishment of Beijing Xingheng Power Supply Company Limited; in 2001, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.


Chen Liquan took the lead in developing lithium-ion batteries in China, realized the industrialization of lithium-ion batteries, discovered the first signs of 70K superconductivity, developed liquid nitrogen temperature zone superconductors and announced the material composition for the first time.

In 1997, Hong Li proposed high-capacity nano-Si anode materials for the first time in the world, applied for the first invention patent, and published the first international article on nano-Si anode materials in 1999, and proposed a comprehensive solution of nano-Si anode with a meta-curfew structure in 2005, which was selected as one of the “National Tenth Five-Year Major Scientific and Technological Achievements Exhibition”. The nano-silicon negative electrode material was granted a series of core material patents in 1997, and it took 20 years of research to realize the technology transfer, and began to be industrialized in 2017 in Jiangsu Liyang Tianmu Pioneer Battery Material Co. Proposed and developed hybrid solid-liquid electrolyte battery and all-solid-state battery technologies based on in-situ solidification technology, and promoted the development of lithium-ion battery failure analysis technology and high-throughput computing technology.

His current research interests include key materials and battery technologies for high energy density lithium-ion batteries, solid-state lithium batteries, battery failure analysis, and solid-state ionics. He has co-authored 380 SCI papers with over 27,000 citations and H-factor of 84. He has applied for more than 100 Chinese invention patents and has been granted more than 50 Chinese invention patents.

He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, working in the E01 group. He is a subject matter expert of energy storage in advanced energy field of Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), a responsible expert of Smart Grid Technology and Equipment Special Project of MIIT, and a technical expert of National New Energy Vehicle Innovation Center (NENEVIC). He is a recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation. National Key R&D Program of New Energy Vehicle Pilot Special Power Battery Project, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission Solid State Battery Key Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China Solid State Battery Key Project Leader. Co-founded Beijing Weilan New Energy Technology Co.
Ltd., Tianmu Lake Advanced Energy Storage Technology Research Institute Ltd. and Yangtze River Delta Physics Research Center Ltd.

Since 2009, he has been working in Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, presided over more than 10 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), National Key Research and Development Program (NKRDP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Pilot Project and enterprises, and participated in the formulation and publication of 5 standards, including 2 national standards and 1 national military standard.



He has participated in the research of many planning and strategic reports in the field of energy, and carried out the development of MW-300MW compressed air energy storage technology; he has published more than 220 papers (117 SCI papers), applied for more than 180 patents (more than 80 authorized), and participated in the preparation of 6 monographs/chapters in Chinese and English. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Energy Storage Science and Technology, and a member of the National Energy System Standardization Technical Committee.



Scientific and technological awards: Beijing Municipal Science and Technology First Prize (Technological Invention Award), Beijing Municipal Science and Technology First Prize (Basic Research Category), Chinese Academy of Sciences Science and Technology for Development Award, China Energy Research Society Energy Innovation First Prize, Gold Medal of the Invention Exhibition in Geneva, China Patent Award of Excellence, Chinese Academy of Sciences Scientific and Technological Achievement Transformation Award, etc. More than 20 awards.



Honors: Young Beijing Scholar, Outstanding Science and Technology Worker Award of China Energy Research Society, Haiying Talent-Innovation Leader and so on.