Kang Xu is an MRS Fellow, ECS Fellow, ARL Fellow (emeritus), and currently the Chief Scientist of SES AI Corp based in Boston, MA. He has been conducting electrolytes and interphasial chemistry research for the past 30 years, published 320+ papers, wrote/edited 5 books/chapters, and obtained 20+ US Patents, with total citation of 67,000+ and an h-index of 127. He is a Clarivate’s highly-cited author, and one of the top 2% most influential researchers in the Stanford Database.
Among his numerous publications, he is best known in the field for the two comprehensive reviews published at Chemical Reviews in 2004 and 2014, and a textbook entitled “Electrolytes, Interfaces and Interphases” published by RSC Press in 2023. His work has received many recognitions and awards, including the 2015 UMD Invention of the Year, 2017 International Battery Association Technology Award, and 2018 ECS Battery Research Award.