Minfei Fei
Email: mf689@cam.ac.uk
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Education Background
Ph.D. Candidate, Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
M.S., Materials Science & NanoEngineering, Rice University
B.Eng. (Outstanding Graduate Award), New Energy Science & Engineering, Nanjing University
Undergraduate Visiting Scholar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Biography
Minfei is a Ph.D. candidate supervised by Profs. R Vasant Kumar, Cate Ducati and Manish Chhowalla FREng. His PhD work is focused on addressing next generation energy challenges. He is interested in understanding the fundamental mechanisms in rechargeable batteries, especially the correlation between battery interface physicochemical properties and device-level performance. The scientific understanding guides the rational design of next generation sustainable batteries. He is also interested in electrolyte design, sacrificial agent design and creative battery recycling. He has expanded his research interests also into photothermal interface and electron microscopy methods.
Prior to Cambridge, he received a Master's degree from Rice University with Prof. Pulickel Ajayan, ranked top in program cohort. He obtained a Bachelor's degree with Outstanding Graduate Award (the only recipient in the program cohort) from Nanjing University, working with Prof. Jianguo Liu and Prof. Peng Wang. Minfei was an Undergraduate Visiting Scholar at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, working with Dr. Scott Chambers, Dr. Chongmin Wang and PhD candidate Yang He (now the Department Chair in Materials Science at USTB, China).
Recently, Minfei also works closely with Prof. Jia Zhu (NJU), Prof. Guoran Li (Nankai), and Prof. Kai Xi (Xi'an JiaoTong), along with several collaborators worldwide.
Minfei's PhD studies, till now, has led to 18 studentships & awards at college and university levels or above. He has delivered several invited talks at universities or conferences, has received several Best Poster Awards/Best Student Talks at major international battery conferences, including ECS, ICNaB, IBA, etc. Minfei is an independent reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals and also an independent PI for two grants. He also has rich teaching and mentoring experiences (10+ students) and 4 patents.
Minfei's PhD thesis "Molecular-level interphase design for sustainable batteries" was passed without corrections, making him one of the very few students in the whole Department to have ever achieved this in the past decades.
Minfei is open to discussions, consultancy and research collaborations.