Prof. Di Wei serves as the Principal Investigator at BINN and heads the Iontronics Laboratory. As Fellow of  National Academy of Inventors (FNAI) USA, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) UK, Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (FIMMM) UK and Senior Member of Wolfson College at Cambridge University, he has published over 100 papers including Nat. Energy, Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv., PNAS, Matter, Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Energ. Environ. Sci., Chem. Soc. Rev. etc. as the first/corresponding author. Prof. Wei also has a portfolio of over 200 international patents (including PCT). Notably, almost 100 patents have been successfully granted, many of which have been transferred to leading companies like Nokia in Finland and Lyten in the USA. Additionally, Prof. Wei has edited 4 English books, published by Wiley and Cambridge University Press etc., focusing on nanotechnology for energy and information technology. His achievements have been recognized by the first prize of the Nokia Global Innovation and Excellence Award, Brian Conway Prize in Physical Electrochemistry from the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) and various other prizes from ISE and RSC.