纪秀磊教授:电化学储能是离子们在由化学作用力所构建的基本粒子（原子、分子）的迷宫中翩翩起舞的过程。电池、超级电容器、赝电容器是分段式的反应器；它们实现了氧化还原反应中的传质、传荷过程的去耦合化；在这些反应器中，离子们就像一艘艘小船，电极就像岸边。离子努力地在电解液中起帆航行，最终在电极上登陆。在该过程中，离子也常常要穿过界面并打入到基本粒子的海洋中。

Energy storage with electrochemical methods entails dancing of ions in the maze of basic particles, including atoms or molecules, assembled by chemical forces. Batteries, supercapacitors, and pseudocapactiors are some compartmentalized reactors to decouple redox reactions in mass and charge transfer, where the ions take the efforts to sail through the electrolyte, land on the shore of the electrode surface, and often nail through the interface and infiltrate into the throng of basic particles. 

作为材料电化学家，我们是电化学过程、活动的组织者。为了动员电化学过程中所有的参与者，包括离子、电极、电解液，我们必须要理解它们的化学相互作用。借助探针工具，电化学或者光谱学，在不同的空间维度上，去获知大多数成键原子的集体行为；在这里，定向合成和模拟的协作是需要的。我们非常享受去弄清楚电化学反应中的化学作用，比如键的形成和断开，离子在电极内部的聚集和解散。这些知识和储能目标的实现所需要的性质、性能以及实际指标紧密相关。对这些方面新的理解可以为设计性能更加优良的材料和器件提供理论指导。 

As material electrochemists, we are organizers of electrochemical events, i.e., discharge, and charge--energy storage. To mobilize all parties, including ions, electrodes, and electrolyte, we must understand their chemistry of chemical interactions. We leverage on probes, either electrochemical, spectroscopic to form an understanding of how the mass of bonded atoms behaves collectively in various spatial dimensions, where rational synthesis and simulation are jointly called on. The chemical interactions during electrochemical reactions, fashioned as formation or breaking of bonds, during the convening of ions inside electrodes or the dismiss of ions from the electrodes, are something we most enjoy learning about. Such knowledge is associated with implications of properties, performance, and practical metrics pertaining to the mission of energy storage, and our new understanding births design principles for more energetic and powerful materials and devices.  

气候危机和污染正以史无前例的速度威胁着人类，不可逆转的严重后果或即将到来，那将难以承受。储能的秘诀藏于物质本身，它将教会我们如何旋转技术的魔方；在那里，至简的美将浮现。

Climate crises and pollution threaten humanity at an unprecedented pace, where the clock is ticking to detonate imminent, irreversible consequences, which will be unbearable. Mater is codified with its innate behavior to provide solutions of energy storage, where the Rubik's cube has to be swiveled and the beauty of simplicity surfaces. 

纪秀磊教授:是将来能够实现储能产业化的工作。

They will be my works that eventually lead to commercialization of energy storage technologies. 

纪秀磊教授:Carbon Energy将会成为能源科学领域的旗舰期刊，成为众多突破性研究工作的归宿。

Carbon Energy will be a flagship journal for energy sciences. It will be a home for breakthroughs. 

纪秀磊教授:我认为研究人员是非常幸运的，因为他们可以将兴趣和职业结合起来。我们应该有梦想、对人宽容同时感恩。

I think researchers are some people who luckily have their interests and profession integrated. We shall have dreams, and be kind and thankful. 

纪秀磊教授:我享受从科学到历史和文化，再到经济学中得到启发。我非常向往成为一个践行儒家标准的学者。 

I enjoy learning insights from sciences to history and cultures, and to finance. I hope to practice a life of Confucian scholar.