Lin-Feng Li

Dr. Lin-Feng Li, Founder, President and CTO, has two decades of technology and management experience in a wide range of energy and environmental technology fields. Dr. Li has B.S. degrees in both Chemistry and Applied Physics from Tsinghua University and in 1998 received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Case Western Reserve University, where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Daniel A. Scherson focusing on the development of lithium batteries with polymer electrolytes.

During his studies, Dr. Li developed a novel process for lithium deposition alloying and intercalation. Dr. Li is an active inventor in the fields of batteries, including lithium rechargeable and other rechargeable and primary batteries, alkaline fuel cells, electrochemical oxygen separation and other membrane separation technologies, electrocatalysis, ion conductive membrane technologies and nano-engineered materials.

He has published over 25 technical papers in the professional journals and has 12 issued US patents. In his work with zinc batteries Dr. Li has developed numerous innovations to address the issues of zinc dendrite growth, leading to successful commercialization of rechargeable Ag-Zn and Ni-Zn batteries. He was previously VP and CTO of eVionyx, Inc. where he was a leader of the team that developed an electric vehicle powered by a hybrid zinc air fuel cell and Ni-Zn batteries that in 2000 held the Guinness World Record for electric vehicle range. He then served as the Vice President of Product Development at Zinc Matrix Power (now ZPower) and was instrumental in developing the rechargeable Ag-Zn battery. Dr. Li has also previously launched a joint venture in China in which he scaled-up a battery manufacturing facility from scratch, starting with an empty building and no employees, and bringing the venture through production, testing, marketing, sales and product distribution.

Dr. Li is actively involved in technology development and the commercialization of Bettergy’s technologies, and Bettergy has spun-out a company to bring Bettergy’s rechargeable lithium metal battery technology, which includes a novel separator and advanced polymer electrolyte, to market.