Chengmeng Chen now serves as an associate researcher, as well as the principal investigator of group of graphene and renewable energy materials in the Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICC, CAS). He received his B.S. degree in mineral processing from China University of Mining and Technology in 2006, and Doctorate in materials science from ICC, CAS in 2012. From 2010 to 2011, he studied in Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society under the supervise of Prof. Robert Schlögl and Dr. Dangsheng Su. Dr. Chen’s work has principally focused on scale-up preparation of chemically derived graphene, surface chemistry and macroscopic assembly of graphene for applications in energy storage and thermal management. He set up the SinocarbonTM Graphene Markering Center in 2013, and built up a pilot plant of graphene with annual production capability of 300 kg in Taiyuan, Shanxi. He has successively presided over the projects of Knowledge Innovation Engineering of CAS, transverse project with Shanxi Coal Transportation and Sales Group Co., Ltd., National and Shanxi’s Natural Science Foundations, and Taiyuan First-class independent innovation major special project. He is the member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS, member of China Graphene Standardization Committee, fellow of China Innovation Alliance of the Graphene Industry, youth fellow of Chinese Society of Particuology.
He has published 26 papers in Adv. Mater., Adv. Func. Mater., Chem. Commun., J. Mater. Chem., Carbon et al, with citations of over 600 times and H-index of 12.
He received many awards including: first prize of Tianjin Natural Science Awards (rank the third), the Dean Excellence Award of CAS, Baosteel Education Award, Zhu Li Yue Hua Award, the SGL Group Award, Synfuels China Award, and Youth Outstanding Paper Award of “New Carbon Materials”, etc.