Liu Zhaoping, Ph.D. in Science, Research Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor, has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2016. He is currently the Director of the National Graphene Innovation Center (the only national manufacturing innovation center in the graphene field in China), and concurrently serves as Director of the Graphene Engineering Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Research Center for Graphene Technology, Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Research Center for Power Lithium Batteries, as well as Director of the Power Lithium Battery Engineering Laboratory and Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Graphene Applied Research. From 1994 to 1998, he studied in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Gannan Normal University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree. From 1998 to 2001, he received a Master of Science degree from the School of Chemistry at Shandong University. From 2001 to 2004, he received a Ph.D. in Science from the Department of Chemistry (Inorganic Chemistry) at the University of Science and Technology of China. Subsequently, from 2004 to 2007, he conducted postdoctoral research at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan, and from 2007 to 2008, he conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. In 2008, he returned to China and joined the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he founded the Power Lithium Battery Engineering Laboratory. In 2017, he was appointed to prepare for the establishment of the Ningbo Graphene Innovation Center, and in 2022, he led the successful establishment of the National Graphene Innovation Center. Liu Zhaoping has long been engaged in scientific research and engineering development of graphene and power lithium battery materials and their applications. He has published more than 300 papers in journals such as Nature, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., and Adv. Mater., with more than 20,000 citations. He has obtained more than 300 authorized invention patents (including 30 PCT patents), and has undertaken more than 30 science and technology projects, including the National Key R&D Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, key deployment projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and key R&D programs of Zhejiang Province. He has led his team to achieve the transfer and transformation of multiple technological achievements, including graphene and new-generation power lithium battery materials, and has led the incubation of more than 20 graphene enterprises. As a principal founder, he has successively established Ningbo Moxi Technology Co., Ltd. (industrialization of graphene powder), Ningbo Fuli Battery Materials Technology Co., Ltd. (industrialization of lithium-rich manganese-based cathode materials), and Ningbo Roucarbon Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (industrialization of large-width graphene film roll materials), promoting the construction of thousand-ton-level graphene powder and million-square-meter graphene film production capacity.
Important honors: He has been awarded the National May 1st Labor Medal and the Zhejiang Provincial May 1st Labor Medal, enjoys special government allowances from the State Council, and has been recognized as one of the 2025 Zhejiang Province "Most Beautiful Science and Technology Workers," a Ningbo expert with outstanding contributions, a Ningbo outstanding talent, a Zhejiang Province science and technology entrepreneur, and a Chinese graphene entrepreneurial meritorious figure. He has also been selected for the Ministry of Science and Technology's Innovation Talent Promotion Program as a young and middle-aged science and technology innovation leading talent, the Zhejiang Province 151 Talent Program (first level), the Ningbo City 3315 Talent Program, the Ningbo City Leading and Top-notch Talent Program (first level), as well as national-level and Chinese Academy of Sciences talent projects.
