Bingqing Wei

Short Biography

Professor Bingqing Wei received his Bachelor’s degree (1987), M.S (1989), and Ph.D. (1992) in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is currently a Tenured Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and serves as Director of Center for Fuel Cells and Batteries at the University of Delaware, USA. Dr. Wei was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University from 2003 to 2007. He was a Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center from 2000 to 2003. Dr. Wei was a visiting scientist at Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany in 1998 and 1999. From 1992 to 2001, he was a faculty member at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Dr. Bingqing Wei’s research interest and expertise lie in nanomaterials and nanotechnology. His research interests have been focusing on the synthesis, processing, characterization, and physical properties of carbon nanostructures, carbon nanotube nanocomposites, and applications of carbon nanostructures in energy conversion and storage devices. His scholarly achievements in the field of nanomaterials and nanotechnology are adequately reflected by his 358 papers published in refereed international journals, including Nature and Science, 122 scientific conference presentations and 212 invited talks and seminars in academia and industry worldwide. His research work has been cited more than 26800 times by peer scientists with the h-index of 83 (Web of Science) (more than 34800 times with the h-index of 92 on Google Scholar). Dr. Wei is among Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate for his research on nanomaterials that enable energy conversion and storage.