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Cheng Huiming was born in Sichuan in 1963. He received his bachelor degree in 1984 on carbon materials from Hunan Univ., his M.S. in 1987 and Ph.Din 1992 on materials sci. and eng. from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR CAS). Prof. Cheng began his career as a Guest Researcher at Kyushu Industrial Research Institute, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan,in 1990; then he was employed as a Research Associate in the Dept. of Materials Sci. and Eng., Faculty of Eng. at Nagasaki Univ., Japan, in 1992, and then took an associate professor position at IMR CAS in 1993. He is currently professor and deputy director at the same institute. Prof. Cheng also worked at MIT (USA), Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore), Univ. of Queensland (Australia), etc, as visiting scientist or honorary professor for short periods.
Prof. Cheng is mainly working on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene, new energy materials and highperformance carbon materials. He authored or coauthored more than 300 peerreviewed papers which have been cited for more than 8000 times. For his scientific achievements, he was awarded a number of national and international prizes, such as the 2nd class National Award in Natural Science, Ryukiti Hashiguti Award, Khwarizmi Award, Chareles E. Pettinos Award, etc. Prof. Cheng has already supervised more than 30 Ph.Dstudents, given more than 40 invited talks on international and national conferences and symposia, and is Editor of Carbon since 2000 and EditorinChief of New Carbon Materials since 1998. He takes a leading role in carbon materials research in China.
Professor Cheng has contributed much to the progress of CNTs, carbon materials for energy storage, and recently graphene. While Prof. Cheng is perhaps best known for his research work on CNTs, he has also made significant contributions to the science of graphene, to the use of various carbon materials for energy storage, and to the advancement of photocatalytic semiconducting materials for solar energy conversion.
Prof. Cheng did pioneering work on largescale growth of singlewalled CNTs using an improved floating catalyst method in 1998. Since then he has extensively investigated their synthesis, growth mechanism, structural characteristics, properties, and applications. In 2009, he made an important advance in the synthesis of singlewalled CNTs when he proposed a metal catalystfree process. He has also investigated ways to control the number of layers and size of graphene, to synthesize 3D interconnected graphene foams, and has developed a HI reduction method to efficiently reduce graphene oxide. Moreover, Prof. Cheng has recently been involved with the use of CNTs, graphene and porous carbons for supercapacitors and lithium ion batteries. In particular, he has produced hierarchical porous carbon that allows for high ion and transfer rate, which translates into high power and energy densities. In addition, Prof. Cheng and his colleagues have designed special pyrolytic carbon deposition equipment and developed a unique process to fabricate bulk isotropic pyrolytic carbon and graphite materials with high performance, and the materials have found wide applications in aerospace, aeronautic and other fields as the best mechanical sealing and wearresistant parts.
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