Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of New Energy Chemistry was established by Professor Yiwang Chen, who is a winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scientists, a candidate for the National Program of Leading Engineering Talents, and a member of the “Ten Thousand Talent Program”. JPKLNEC is a multidisciplinary institute. The research in the lab focuses on energy conversion and storage materials & devices, including organic and perovskite solar cells, supercapacitors, metal-air batteries, and silicone rubbers as well as other frontier sciences.

The Lab with a floor area of 2000 m2 for experiment and fixed assets worth 80 million yuan take both basic and applied research programs. Currently, there are 7 professors, 1 winner of the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scientists, 1 candidate of the National Program of Leading Engineering Talents, 1 member of the “Ten Thousand Talent Program”, 1 winner of the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 awarded Chang-Jiang Professorship from the Ministry of Education under the Cheung-Kong Scholars Program, 2 winners of the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents, 1 winner of the National Science and Technology Youth Talent Support Program, 5 winners of the “Double Thousand Plan” Science and Technology Innovation High-End Talent Project of Jiangxi Province. More than 200 PhD and master students have graduated from this lab. More than 60 national research programs have been granted to this lab, including the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Sino German International Cooperation Project, Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program from Natural Science Foundation of China and National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program).

The lab has published more than 500 research papers in high quality journals such as Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., and Adv. Mater., etc. The lab also got more than 50 authorized invention patents. Staff in this lab has won the first prize of natural science award of Jiangxi province once, the second prize of natural science from Chinese Ministry of Education once, the second prize of natural science award of Jiangxi province 4 times, the third prize of technical invention of Jiangxi province once, and the second prize of teaching achievement in Jiangxi province 3 times. More than 10 PhD students won Excellence for their doctoral dissertations in Jiangxi province, 4 students won Science and Technology Innovation Award for Chinese Youth. The lab has made some breakthroughs in printing fabrication flexible solar cells and produced high energy density supercapacitors, and some novel silicone elastomer functional materials have been industrialized.