• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Yi Cui

Stanford University

Director, Sustainability Accelerator, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

At Stanford University, Yi Cui is the Founding Director of Sustainability Accelerator, Fortinet Founders Professor of materials science and engineering, energy science and engineering.  As a preeminent researcher of nanotechnologies for better batteries and other sustainability materials technologies, Cui has published more than 550 studies and is one of the world’s most cited scientists with H-index 264 (Google). In 2014 he was ranked NO.1 worldwide in Materials Science by Thomas Reuters. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, fellow of the Materials Research Society, fellow of the Electrochemical Society, and fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His selected honors include Global Energy Prize (2021), Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (2021), Materials Research Society Medal (2020), Electrochemical Society Battery Technology Award (2019) and Blavatnik National Laureate (2017).  He has founded five companies to commercialize technologies from his lab: Amprius Inc. (NYSE: AMPX), 4C Air Inc., EEnotech Inc., LifeLabs Design Inc. and  EnerVenue Inc.

 

Sessions With Yi Cui

Monday, 18 March

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 04:30pm - 05:00pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 09:30 pm - 19/mar/2024 10:00 pm

    Innovation Unleashed: Addressing supply chain constraints with cutting-edge technology
    Climate & Sustainability

    Countries are trying to meet the demand for critical minerals, metals, materials and equipment parts needed for energy transition, along with onshoring and nearshoring supply chains for them. This dual focus on industrialization and energy transition will lead to bottlenecks and could slow the energy transition’s pace. How can innovative material substitution and new technologies reduce the constraints in the supply chain? What are some insights, strategies and real-world examples of how new materials and technologies could be leveraged to optimize efficiency, mitigate risks and adapt to evolving needs of energy transition? The ability to adapt and find new technological solutions for constraints in the supply chain will be even more critical in a world that is increasingly fragmented.

Wednesday, 20 March