Professor Leon L. Shaw is Rowe Family Endowed Chair Professor in Sustainable Energy and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. His main research interest is in nanomaterials synthesis and processing for energy storage and structural applications. In the arena of energy storage, his research team has worked on various anode and cathode materials for Li-ion batteries, Na-ion batteries, supercapacitors, and hybrid redox flow batteries over the last decade.