Curriculum Vitae

Last updated August 2026.

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Education

  • Ph.D. Candidate, Electronic Science & Technology — Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2023 – present
    National Innovation Platform (Center) for Industry–Education Integration of Energy Storage Technology, Xi’an 710049, China
  • B.S. in Applied Chemistry — Tongji University, 2019 – 2023
    College of Chemistry Science and Engineering, Shanghai 200092, China

Skills

  • Research focus — lithium metal batteries; anode-free cells; interfacial catalysis; SEI and plating/stripping mechanism; high-entropy layered hydroxides
  • Computation — Python, VASP, Gaussian, Multiwfn, cclib
  • Visualisation — Blender, Matplotlib/Seaborn, Quarto
  • Languages — Chinese (native), English, Spanish (learning)

Publications

  1. Z. Cao‡, Z. Jin‡, W. Li‡, P. Li, Y. He, K. Jia, C. Liu, N. Li, M. Xu, W. Tang, W. Xue, R. V. Kumar, S. Ding, K. Xi@ Intramolecular Polarization–Mediated Solvation and Interphase Engineering for Low–Temperature High–Voltage Lithium Metal Batteries Advanced Materials (2026) 74260.
  2. Z. Jin@, K. Xi Adapting to Information Overload: A Proposed Framework for Digital Research Matter, 9 (2026) 102777.
  3. L. Jin‡, Z. Jin‡, T. Deng‡, P. Liu, J. Tian, R. Gao, ... & K. Xi Boosting Solid–Solid Conversion Kinetics via Electron-Pinned Interface Engineering for High-Energy-Density Li–S Batteries Advanced Materials (2026) e73517.
  4. Z. Jin, Z. Cao, L. Jin, S. Ding, K. Xi High-Entropy Layered Hydroxides: Pioneering Synthesis, Mechanistic Insights, and Multifunctional Applications in Sustainable Energy and Biomedicine Nano-Micro Lett. 18 (2026) 200.
  5. Li, H., Jin, H., Deng, T., Yang, C., Jin, Z., Zhang, Y., ... & Xi, K. Anion-Defect Engineering in Transition Metal Compounds for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries: Current Progress, Mechanistic Insights, and Future Directions Advanced Energy Materials, e04213.
  6. Liu, C., Jin, Z., Xu, X., Cao, Z., Wang, Y., Sun, Z., ... & Xi, K. Accelerating Near-Electrode Li+ Transport via High-Electronegativity Substrates for Sustainable Fast-Charging Lithium Metal Batteries Advanced Functional Materials, e24392.
  7. Liu, C., Li, W., Wang, Z., Jin, Z., Deng, T., Yang, Z., ... & Xi, K. Crystal Facet-Engineered Anion Regulation Enables Fast-Charging Stability in Lithium Metal Batteries Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202512742.
  8. Jin, H., Li, H., Deng, T., Yang, C., Pan, K., Jin, Z., ... & Xi, K. Modulating carrier-catalyst heterointerfaces to boost catalytic polysulfide conversion in lithium-sulfur batteries Energy Mater. 2025, 5, 500107.
  9. Deng, T.‡, Jin, Z.‡, Jin, L., Luo, H., Wang, J., Gao, J., ... & Xi, K. Relay catalyst for accelerating lithium polysulfide conversion kinetics and long-life lithium sulfur batteries Nano Energy, 138, 110896.
  10. Deng, T., Wang, J., Zhao, H., Jin, Z., Jin, L., Men, X., ... & Xi, K. Dynamically Regulating Polysulfide Degradation via Organic Sulfur Electrolyte Additives in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Advanced Energy Materials, 14(47), 2402319.
  11. Xu M‡, Wang X‡, Jin Z‡, et al. Decoupling the roles of grain boundary strength and grain size hidden in grain-level electro-chemo-mechanical failure of solid-state electrolyte Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2025, 101: 685-691.
  12. Jin Hu, Lulu Huang, Wen Liu, Zhengqian Jin, Xuefeng Wang, Xiaopeng Xing Adsorption of O2 on cationic gold clusters: Analyses on bonding strength and extent of activation Chin. J. Chem. Phys. 37, 351–360 (2024)
  13. Jin Hu , Jun Ma , Zhengqian Jin , Wen Liu , Lulu Huang , Xuefeng Wang* and Xiaopeng Xing* Reactivity of cationic silver clusters with O2: a probe of interplay between clusters’ geometric and electronic structures Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26, 7407-7415