Mufeng Wei - Battery Research Scientist at LiNova Energy Inc.

Mufeng Wei / 魏牧丰

About

I am Mufeng Wei, a battery research scientist at LiNova Energy Inc. Currently I work and live in Arcadia, California.

Before joining LiNova, I received my B.S. in Chemistry (first major) and Business Administration (second major) from Tsinghua University, and my Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of California, Berkeley.

My research and work interests broadly reside in AI for science.

I enjoy playing basketball, video games, and k-pop. Favorite basketball players: Kobe Bryant, favorite video games: Overwatch, and favorite k-pop artists: IU, Jennie, Nayeon, and Eunchae.

News

  • 03/2026     Project "2026 Industry Research Report" is released.
  • 11/2025     Paper "A Bibliometric Study of Sulfurized Polyacrylonitrile Batteries" is accepted by Future Batteries and now available online.
  • 08/2025     Paper "Sulfurized Polyacrylonitrile for Rechargeable Batteries: A Comprehensive Review" is accepted by Batteries.
  • 08/2023     I Joined LiNova Energy Inc. as a battery research scientist.
  • 05/2023     I graduated from UC Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Chemistry.
  • 10/2022     I passed Chartered Financial Analysis (CFA) level I exam.

Projects

2026 Industry Research Report
Mufeng Wei
A ChemBERTa–Machine Learning Hybrid Approach to Electrolyte Conductivity Prediction
Mufeng Wei
Under Review
A Bibliometric Study of Sulfurized Polyacrylonitrile Batteries
Mufeng Wei
Future Batteries, 2025
Sulfurized Polyacrylonitrile for Rechargeable Batteries: A Comprehensive Review
Mufeng Wei
Batteries, 2025
Designing Artificial Enzymes with Random Heteropolymers for Neurotoxins Remediation in Water
Mufeng Wei, Ting Xu
UC Berkeley, 2023
Backbone-Photodegradable Polymers by Incorporating Acylsilane Monomers via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Banruo Huang, Mufeng Wei, Emma Vargo, Yiwen Qian, Ting Xu, F Dean Toste
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021
Crystalline Dioxin-Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks from Irreversible Reactions
Bing Zhang, Mufeng Wei, Haiyan Mao, Xiaokun Pei, Sultan A Alshmimri, Jeffrey A Reimer, Omar M Yaghi
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018
Gold Catalysis-Facilitated Rapid Synthesis of the Daphnane/Tigliane Tricyclic Core
Yong Li, Mufeng Wei, Mingji Dai
Tetrahedron, 2017
Mild and Selective Cobalt-Catalyzed Chemodivergent Transfer Hydrogenation of Nitriles
Zhihui Shao, Shaomin Fu, Mufeng Wei, Shaolin Zhou, Qiang Liu
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016

Miscellaneous

Journal Review

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Energy Storage Materials
  • Journal of Energy Chemistry
  • Journal of Power Sources
  • Materials Today Energy
  • Batteries & Supercaps
  • ChemElectroChem
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Ionics

Teaching

  • Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Chem 3A, Chem 3AL, UC Berkeley, 2017 Fall, 2020 Spring
  • Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Chem 1A, Chem 1AL, UC Berkeley, 2018 Spring, 2019 Spring, 2021 Fall

Certifications

  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level I