The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries earlier this year.

Zheng Jingxu, an alumnus of Shenzhen Foreign Languages School (SFLS) who is now studying at Cornell University as a doctoral candidate, has also dedicated himself to the research of battery technologies. Recently, his research has made great breakthroughs as his paper titled “Reversible Epitaxial Electrodeposition of Metals in Battery Anodes” was published by the Science Magazine. Zheng is the primary author of the paper.

The Science Magazine is a peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and one of the world’s top academic journals.

The latest results of Zheng’s research have also won recognition from the field in his home country. His paper was also recommended on influential official WeChat accounts in the field.

Graduating from SFLS in 2013, Zheng was recommended for admission to Shanghai Jiao Tong University for his outstanding performance in the Chemistry Olympic Contest. While at the college, he published 17 peer-reviewed English SCI academic theses in international academic journals, of which 12 were primarily authored by him.

In 2016, he was awarded the Student of the Year of Shanghai Jiao Tong University title and in 2017 he won a special award in the category of Mathematics and Physics at the “Challenge Cup” National Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Competition.

Zheng shared suggestions with his junior fellow SFLS students, saying: “I want to tell them to follow their hearts and pursue things they love. Everything is possible as long as you do everything you can to explore the world and discover what you’re interested in.”

(Yang Mei)