Associate Professors Gu Sichen and Nie Wanli from the Faculty of Materials Science have published a research paper titled “An Anion-Concentrating Layer for a Large-Capacity Al Anode Enabled by an Amorphous 2D Covalent Organic Framework” in Advanced Functional Materials, a leading journal in materials science with a recent impact factor of 19.9.

Li Juan, a master’s student under the BIT-SMBU joint program supervised by Nie, is the first author of the paper, and SMBU is the primary completing institution. The corresponding authors are Nie, Gu, and Professor Wu Chuan from the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). Associate Professors Zhu Yanan and Sergey Ryazantsev from the Faculty of Materials Science also made key contributions to theoretical calculations, characterization testing, and data analysis.