Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series
Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigator Dr Siwen Zhang (Liaoning University, China)!
Since the launch of Nanoscale Horizons, the journal has had a clear vision to publish exceptionally high-quality work whilst acting as a resource to researchers working at all career levels. We continue to be impressed by the quality of the research published and at the same time are looking for new ways of recognising and promoting the outstanding authors behind articles published in the journal.
We launched our Emerging Investigator Series to showcase the exceptional work published by early-career researchers in the journal and regularly select a recently published Communication article to feature in an interview-style Editorial article with the corresponding author. We hope that the series will also benefit the nanoscience community by highlighting the exciting work being done by its early-career members.
We are excited to share our latest Emerging Investigator, Dr Siwen Zhang (Liaoning University, China)!
Read our interview with Siwen here
Dr Siwen Zhang has been engaged in research on electrochemical energy storage, including supercapacitors and aqueous batteries. To date, he has published over 60 SCI-indexed papers in the field of electrochemical energy storage. Among these, he has authored more than 30 SCI papers as first author or corresponding author in internationally renowned journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Functional Materials, Energy Storage Materials, Nano Energy, Nano-Micro Letters, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and the Chemical Engineering Journal. His papers have been cited over 3000 times, with an H-index of 29. Additionally, four of his publications have been recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers (top 1% worldwide), and one paper has been identified as an ESI Hot Paper (top 0.1% worldwide). He holds 5 authorized invention patents and has over 10 patent applications under review. In 2024, he was awarded the Second Prize of the Natural Science Academic Achievement Award of Shenyang City, among other honors. He has served as principal investigator or participant in more than 10 national and provincial-level projects. Additionally, he is a young editorial board member for six journals, including Battery Energy and Carbon Neutralization. He also acts as an independent reviewer for over 20 journals such as Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, and InfoMat.
Congratulations to Siwen for his excellent work! You can read his featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below.
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PVP pre-intercalation engineering combined with the V4+/V5+ dual-valence modulation strategy for energy storage in aqueous zinc-ion batteries
Wenhui Mi, Bosi Yin, Haixi Gu, Hanyu Wen, Zhibiao Wang, Hui Li, Ziqian Yuan, Siwen Zhang and Tianyi Ma Nanoscale Horiz., 2025, 10, 1365-1376 DOI: D5NH00236B |
We hope you enjoy reading our interview and featured article and are looking forward to sharing our future Emerging Investigators with you!
Do you publish innovative nanoscience and nanotechnology research? Submit your latest work to Nanoscale Horizons now. If you are eligible for the Emerging Investigators series, you could be considered to feature in one of our future interviews! Find out more about the eligibility criteria and the process in this editorial introducing the series.
