(May 11, 2023)--Nian Liu gave a keynote speech at the launch event of Lithium R+D+i Center in Universidad Católica del Norte (Antofagasta, Chile), an invited talk at the 35th Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (Gold Coast, Australia), and an invited seminar at University of Queensland's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (Brisbane, Australia).
(March 22, 2023)--Nian Liu gave seminars in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas-Austin and the Department of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego
(January 31, 2023)--Nian Liu was invited to give a Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium at Columbia University on 1/27
(January 27, 2023)--Alex Filippas received William R. Mclain Fellowship from School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Congratulations!
(January 13, 2023)--Yutong Wu (former PhD student) and Alex Filippas have published a research article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scences, reporting a novel configuration of flow battery that can provide same amount of energy in smaller size, and revolutionize the power supply. This publication is featured here.
(September 1, 2022)--Nian Liu gave a departmental seminar on 9/1 in The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
(July 13, 2022)--Nian Liu gave a talk at the 2022 International Flow Battery Forum at Brussels, Belgium, on a revolutionary and universal microtubular flow cell his lab and Lively lab developed to enhance the performance and reduce cost of redox flow batteries for long-duration energy storage.
(July 13, 2022)--Diana Oh in the Nian Liu lab won a PURA award for 2022 Fall semester. She will develop a flow reactor and continuous process for enhancing the throughput of electrochemical extraction of lithium from brine. 16 different undergrad researchers in the Liu lab have received PURA awards in the past five years.
(July 13, 2022)--Nian Liu is recognized as one of the 2022 Emerging Investigators by the journal Nanoscale published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
(July 13, 2022)--Nian Liu is one of 41 members of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) that are recognized as 2021 Highly Cited Researchers. These members are highlighted in the latest issue of ECS Interface.
(April 22, 2022)--Logan, Habin and Dr. Liu went to STEM Day of Dobbs Elementary School for outreach acitivies and talked about energy with 4th and 5th graders
(February 2, 2022)--Helen Wong, a RBI fellow working with Elsa and Nian, has published a research article on ACS Applied Polymer Materials, reporting a “single-pot” synthetic approach that affords a solid polymer electrolyte comprising cellulose-based nanocrystals and a cross-linked interpenetrating polymer network, for all-solid-state lithium batteries.
(February 2, 2022)--Nian Liu co-authored with a few other ChBE faculty members at Georgia Tech an article in Chemical Engineering Education on “How chemical engineering students have changed over two decades: a perspective from Georgia Tech.” The article presents results from a 36-question survey provided to sophomores and seniors in ChBE at Georgia Tech in 1996-1997 and 2018-2019. The results from the almost-600 students highlight student perspectives on chemical engineering, showing similarities and differences between sophomores and seniors, and between students in the 1990s and today.
(February 2, 2022)--Yuju Jeon, a visiting PhD student in the lab, published a research article in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, reporting an alloy-functionalized conductive host to enable rechargeable lithium metal anode for high-energy batteries.
(January 18, 2022)--Zhitao Chen, Logan Brabson, and Habin Park, three PhD students in the lab, passed 2022 PhD Qual Exam. Congratulations!
(December 14, 2021)--Nian Liu is featured as a Nanoscale 2022 Emerging Investigator, and published an invited article in the themed collection. This work is in collaboration with Z. John Zhang in School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
(November 16, 2021)--Nian Liu is among 11 Georgia Tech researchers that are recognized by Clarivate™ as Highly Cited Researchers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™.
(October 19, 2021)--Tzu-Ho Wu, a Postdoctoral scholar in Nian Liu lab, published a Research Article in ACS Applied Energy Materials reporting the first direct visual evidence that MnO2, a cathode material for zinc-ion batteries, goes through a dissolution-redeposition process during battery operation. Tzu-Ho is now an Assistant Professor at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan.
(September 28, 2021)--Zhitao Chen and Logan Brabson join the group as PhD students. Welcome!
(July 19, 2021)--Chihyun Hwang, a Postdoctoral scholar in Nian Liu lab, published a Research Article in Advanced Materials reporting on the use of a self-assembling covalent organic framework approach. This modification of the zinc anode is a scalable process which substantially improves ZAB performance, and is particularly of use in the niche application of non-planar anode surfaces (e.g. wire battery).
(July 10, 2021)--Huitian Liu, a visiting scholar in Nian Liu lab, published a Research Article in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces reporting the understanding of the nucleation and growth of Zn electrodeposits in aqueous Zn-ion batteries. The article also demonstrated a way to control the nucleation and growth and extend the battery life.
(July 6, 2021)--Three undergraduate researchers in the Liu lab (Maxim, Lily, and Jacob) won PURA awards (President's Undergraduate Research Award) for the 2021 Fall semester. Congratulations Max, Lily, and Jacob!
(July 1, 2021)--Yuju Jeon, a visiting scholar in Nian Liu lab, published a Research Article in Electrochimica Acta reporting on an in situ optical microscopy study which compared zinc plating behavior using aqueous alkaline electrolyte with the zinc plating behavior using a cross-linked PAA/MBA gel polymer electrolyte. The study validated the dendrite-suppressing capability of GPE in zinc-ion battery systems and also provided the first visualization of dendrite suppression for the Zinc-ion GPE system.
(June 15, 2021)--Wanda Harding, a science teacher with Atlanta Public Schools, will be working with the Liu lab for the next six weeks as part of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure Network’s "Research Experience for Teachers" program. Wanda earned a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech. Welcome back to Tech and welcome to the Liu group, Wanda!
(March 29, 2021)--Jacqueline Glazer, an undergraduate student in the Nian Liu lab, won 2nd place in the research poster competition at the AIChE Virtual Southern Regional Conference with her poster "Understanding and Controlling the Nucleation and Growth of Zn Electrodeposits for Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries". Congratulations to Jacqueline!
(March 2, 2021)--Yamin Zhang, an alumna of Nian Liu lab and now a postdoc at Northwestern University, won Best PhD Thesis from Georgia Tech Sigma Chi with an accompanying prize of $1,000. Her Thesis was titled "Understanding and Improving Zinc Anodes for High-Energy Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries". Congrats, Yamin!
(February 8, 2021)--The Research Article that Yamin published in ACS Energy Letters, last month is among the journal's 20 most downloaded articles for the past 30 days.
(February 5, 2021)--Yamin Zhang, an alumna of Nian Liu lab and now a postdoc at Northwestern University, published a Research Article in Journal of Power Sources reporting the influence of cell configuration on the performance of zinc-based aqueous batteries. The paper also provides an effective and accessible cell configuration for the community to adopt. Among the authors, Anmol and Sarah are ChBE undergrads and PURA winners that worked with Yamin on this project.
(February 1, 2021)--Yamin Zhang, an alumna of the Nian Liu lab, has joined the John Rogers Research Group at Northwestern University as a Post-Doctoral Fellow to work on biomedical-related electronics and device fabrication. Good luck, Yamin!
(January 21, 2021)--Solid polymer electrolyte is a critical component for all-solid-state Li-ion batteries. Yubin He, an alumnus of the Nian Liu lab and now a postdoc at UC Riverside, published a research article in the journal ChemistrySelect, reporting a new solid polymer electrolyte with anions covalently tethered to the polymer backbone, so Li+ is the only charge carrier. Such a molecular structure allows this polymer electrolyte to efficiently transport Li+ and achieve a transference number of 0.83, much higher than conventional solid polymer electrolytes.
(January 13, 2021)--Dr. Nian Liu co-authored a review article in Materials Today, together with scientists from Pacific Northwestern National Lab and Army Research Lab. The article thoroughly analyzed the perspective of Zn-based aqueous rechargeable batteries, a pre-Li-ion technology that has seen a renaissance recently as new materials, techniques, and applications emerged.
(January 6, 2021)--Yamin Zhang, a recent alumna of the Nian Liu lab, now a postdoc at Northwestern University, published a research article in ACS Energy Letters, reporting a method and the underlying mechanism to achieve spatially controlled deposition of zinc metal, which has been a major hurdle towards rechargeable zinc anode for high energy aqueous batteries.
(December 12, 2020)--Yamin Zhang and Yutong Wu, the first PhD students to complete their doctoral degrees as part of the Nian Liu lab, have graduated from GA Tech. Congratulations to Yamin and Yutong!
(November 25, 2020)--Sarah Ben-Yoseph has won first place in the Fuel, Petrochemical & Energy category at the 2020 AIChE Student Virtual-Conference with her poster ”A Zinc-Based Alloy Anode for Suppressing Hydrogen Evolution in Aqueous Battery Anodes.” Congrats, Sarah!
(November 18, 2020)--Dr. Nian Liu has been recognized by Clarivate™ as a highly cited researcher, meaning that his innovative and highly-cited papers rank him among the top 1% of researchers in the battery/ electrochemistry field.
(November 16, 2020)--Undergraduate student Sarah Ben-Yoseph attended the 2020 AIChE Student Virtual-Conference and presented her poster ”A Zinc-Based Alloy Anode for Suppressing Hydrogen Evolution in Aqueous Battery Anodes.” Thank you GT AICHE Student Chapter for their financial support.
(October 20, 2020)--Yamin Zhang, a PhD student in the Nian Liu lab, was one winner of the Georgia Section Student Awards from the Electrochemical Society. The award includes $500. Congrats, Yamin!
(October 7, 2020)--Yi Zhang, a visiting scholar in the Nian Liu lab, published a research article in Energy Storage Materials reporting a carbon-silicon heterostructure that enables record high coulombic efficiency of silicon-based anodes for lithium-ion batteries.
(September 24, 2020)--Alexandros Filippas joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome!
(September 11, 2020)--Yubin He, a postdoc in Paul Kohl and Nian Liu labs, published a research article in the Journal of Power Sources, reporting a difunctional block copolymer with ion solvating and crosslinking sites as solid polymer electrolyte for solid-state Li-ion batteries.
(September 9, 2020)--Chao Wang, a visiting PhD student in Nian Liu's lab, published a research article in Nano Letters. In this work, ceramic nanoparticles were percolated along natural-cellulose-derived hierarchical networks for high Li+ conductivity and mechanical strength, which are difficult to achieve at the same time in solid-state electrolytes for solid-state Li-ion batteries.
(August 13, 2020)--Elrid Serrao, ChBE undergraduate student and researcher in the Nian Liu lab, received the President's Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) for the 2020 Fall semester. Congrats, Elrid!
(June 8, 2020)--Yubin He, a postdoc in Paul Kohl and Nian Liu labs, published a research article in Journal of The Electrochemical Society, reporting a pendent-type polymer electrolyte for solid-state Li-ion batteries. By moving the ion-conducting moieties from the backbone to side chains, high ionic conductivity and electrochemical stability were achieved at the same time.
(June 4, 2020)--Chihyun Hwang, a visiting scholar in Nian Liu lab, published a research article on ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, reporting ferroelectric polymer nanofiber network as an effective host to enable rechargeable lithium metal anode.
(May 26, 2020)--Yamin Zhang, a fourth year PhD student in the Nian Liu lab, published a letter in Nano Letters. This work demonstrated the use of titanium dioxide as a coating on zinc oxide nanorod anodes. This approach overcomes passivation, dissolution, and hydrogen evolution issues simultaneously.
(April 20, 2020)--Thomas Fuller and Nian Liu, as a technical editor and a guest editor (respectively), helped co-edit a Focus Issue of "Heterogeneous Functional Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage" of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. Among the 35 papers in this Issue, one is from the Kohl lab, another is from the Reichmanis lab.
(January 30, 2020)--Nian Liu co-authored a research article in Nature Communications, reporting a way to electronically change the shape of sulfur microdroplets, and demonstrating their application as electro-tunable microlenses. This work is Episode II of his previous paper on the electrochemical generation of supercooled sulfur microdroplets.
(January 29, 2020)--The Nian Liu lab published a research article in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, reporting NiCo2Se4 nanowires as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for oxygen redox reactions. The first author, Hugo Sancho from Mines ParisTech, was a visiting student at the Liu lab for 5 months.
(January 21, 2020)--Dr. Liu gave a seminar at the Physical Sciences Dorectorate Materials and Chemistry Seminar Series at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
(December 22, 2019)--Dr. Liu co-authored a research article in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, reporting a high-performing cathode catalyst for rechargeable hybrid Li–air batteries.
(December 18, 2019)--Dr. Yubin He, Haochen Yang, Po-Wei Huang and Dr. Liu delivered seven oral and poster presentations at the 2019 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting at Boston and Dr. Liu also gave a seminar in the Battery Materials & Systems Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
(December 5, 2019)--Yamin Zhang won the 2020 STAMI Graduate Student Fellowship with an award amount of $5,000. Congratulations!
(November 17, 2019)--Yamin Zhang won the Phillips 66 Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!
(November 10, 2019)--Dr. Liu gave an invited talk at the NAATBatt Zinc Battery Technology Workshop in New York City, being the only speaker from universities.
(November 5, 2019)--Undergraduate student Zachary Althouse attended the 2019 AIChE Student Conference in Orlando, Florida and presented his poster ”Asymmetric Hybrid Solid Electrolyte with High Conductivity and Interfacial Stability.”
(October 30, 2019)--Sarah Ben-Yoseph and Will Tyner, ChBE undergrads and researchers in Nian Liu lab, received the President's Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) for 2020 Spring semester. In the past two years, there have been 10 different undergrad researchers from our lab who recieved PURA.
(October 23, 2019)--Haochen Yang joins our group as a PhD student. Welcome back!
(October 21, 2019)--Dr. Liu, Dr. Yubin He, Yamin Zhang, Tianqi Hao and Yutong Wu presented at the 236th ECS meeting, and Dr. Yubin He won the Best Presentation Award in Beyond Li ion Battery Symposium, congratulations!
(October 8, 2019)--Evan Wilson joins our group as a PhD student and Yuju Jeon joins our group as a visiting student. Welcome!
(September 7, 2019)--Yamin Zhang won the "Outstanding Poster Award" in 2019 James D. Meindl Distinguished Lecture & IEN User Day, congratulations !
(September 6, 2019)--Yamin Zhang won the ECS travel grant in the battery division, and Yutong Wu won the ECS travel grant in the ionic liquid division for attending the 236th ECS Meeting, congratulations !
(September 6, 2019)-Yutong Wu won the 2019 Ziegler Best Paper Award with the paper "In operando visualization of the electrochemical formation of liquid polybromide microdroplets".
(August 23, 2019)--Sarah Ben-Yoseph, Jesse Vanhoozer, Asher Saet, Elrid Serrao and Bryce Smith join our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
(August 15, 2019)--Yutong Wu, a 3rd-year (turning 4th-year) PhD student in Nian Liu lab, published a research article on Angewandte Chemie International Edition. This work developed a method to visualize the microscopic dynamics at the electrode-electrolyte interface of zinc-bromine redox flow batteries (ZBFB), a promising technology for stationary, utility-scale energy storage. The insights obtained in this study can potentially guide the design of high-performance ZBFB, and facilitate the integration of renewable yet intermittent electricity into the existing electric grid. Po-Wei Huang, a master student in Nian Liu lab, is the co-first author.
(June 10, 2019)--Tianqi won the 2nd place poster of the student poster competition in Forest Products Society 73rd International Convention (FPS IC), congratulations !
(June 18, 2019)--Dr. Lindong Liu from Southwest University joins our lab as a visiting professor, welcome!
(June 10, 2019)--Tianqi won the inaugural Lab Health Contribution Award, congratulations and thanks for the effort!
(May 30, 2019)--Dr. Liu gave an invited talk at the 235th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting in Dallas, Texas.
(May 28, 2019)--Zachary Althouse, Dillon Jones, and Henry Rose, ChBE undergrads and researchers in Nian Liu lab, received the President's Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) for 2019 Fall semester. In the past two years, there have been 8 different undergrad researchers from our lab who recieved PURA.
(May 12, 2019)--Dr. Liu co-authored a research article in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, the researchers applied catalyst defect engineering to activate peroxydisulfate to convert organic pollutants into value-added products.
(May 2, 2019)--Po-Wei Huang won Georgia Sea Grant’s Graduate Traineeship, congratulations!
(April 8, 2019)--Dr. Yi Cui from Stanford University visited our lab!
(April 7, 2019)--Dr. Liu and Po-wei Huang were invited to attend 2019 Georgia Sea Grant Research Symposium in Brunswick, GA.
(April 7, 2019)--Dr. Tzu-ho Wu along with Yamin Zhang published a review article "Nanoscale Design of Zinc Anodes for High-Energy Aqueous Rechargeable Batteries" in Materials Today Nano, congratulations!Nanoscale Design of Zinc Anodes for High-Energy Aqueous Rechargeable Batteries
(April 4, 2019)--Undergraduate student Yanghang Huang along with Haochen Yang published an article "A safe and fast-charging lithium-ion battery anode using MXene supported Li3VO4" in Journal of Materials Chemistry A, congratulations!A safe and fast-charging lithium-ion battery anode using MXene supported Li3VO4
(April 3, 2019)--Dr. Chihyun Hwang joins our group as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome!
(April 3, 2019)--Vikas Barevadia received the President's Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) for Summer 2019. He will study optimal electrocatalyst materials to aid in the water splitting electrochemical reaction. Undergrads from our lab have been awarded prestigious PURA for FIVE straight semesters!
(April 2, 2019)--Yanghang Huang presented a poster "A dendrite-free, fast-charging lithium-ion battery anode using MXene supported Li3VO4" in the 2019 ACC minds of meeting at the University of Louisville.
(March 25, 2019)--Dr. Liu Gave an invited talk in the 36th Annual International Battery Seminar this week. The talk gave an overview of the research group's efforts on high-energy rechargeable aqueous batteries.
(March 11, 2019)--Dr. Liu Gave an invited talk in the Symposium of "Advanced Real-Time Imaging" in TMS 2019 Annual Meeting this week. The talk gave an overview of the research group's efforts on technique development and application of real-time imaging for understanding batteries.
(March 6, 2019)--Dr. Liu co-authored a research article in Nature Nanotechnology, reporting the development of bright sub-20-nm cathodoluminescent nanoprobes for electron microscopy. These multicolor probes are small enough for labeling specific sites in the cell, and also bright enough to be individually localized under electron microscope.
(January 10, 2019)--Dr. Liu authored a research article in PNAS about an electrochemical way to generate super-cooled substance for the first time. This method is reported to offer improved spatial, temporal, and size controllability over conventional thermal methods.
(December 17, 2018)--Dr. Liu is among 16 Georgia Tech researchers who have made the 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list: https://hcr.clarivate.com/.
Clarivate Analytics Web of Science compiled the list, which is based on citations of papers published from 2006 to 2016. It features at least 6,000 unique authors who amassed sufficient citations to place them among the top 1% most cited in at least one of 21 subject fields.
Other 15 Georgia Tech researchers are Claire Berger, Mostafa El-Sayed, Zhong Lin Wang, Younan Xia, Gleb Yushin, Walter de Heer, Zhiqun Lin, Meilin Liu, Jean-Luc Brédas, Edward Conrad, Nga Lee (Sally) Ng, Arthur Ragauskas, Ian Akyildiz, Yong Ding, Geoffrey Ye Li.
(December 5, 2018)--Yamin Zhang presented a poster "Sealing ZnO nanorods for deeply rechargeable high-energy aqueous battery anodes" in the 2018 Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) symposium at Stanford University.
(December 1, 2018)--Yamin Zhang gave a talk "Zinc Anode Design for Rechargeable Aqueous High-Energy Zn-Air Batteries" in the 2018 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting in Boston.
(November 23, 2018)--Dr. Yubin He joins our group as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome!
(November 9, 2018)--Tianqi Hao from Donghua Univeristy joins our group as a visting student. Welcome!
(November 3, 2018)--Undergraduate student Yanghang Huang won the President’s Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) for Spring 2019, congratulations! Yanghang will work on fast-charging lithium-ion battery matterials.
(November 1, 2018)--Undergraduate student Yanghang Huang attended the 2018 AIChE annual meeting in Pittsburgh and his poster "A dendrite-free, fast-charging lithium-ion battery anode using MXene spported Li3VO4" won the 1st place in Materials Engineering and Sciences II section of the Undergraduate Poster Competition, congratulations! He was also photographed with H. Scott Fogler, a former AIChE president and the author to the book Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering.
(October 31, 2018)--Yutong Wu published an article "Ion-Sieving Carbon Nanoshells for Deeply Rechargeable Zn-Based Aqueous Batteries" on Advanced Energy Materials, congratulations!Ion-Sieving Carbon Nanoshells for Deeply Rechargeable Zn-Based Aqueous Batteries
(October 22, 2018)--Visiting scholar Peng Chen along with Yutong Wu published an article "A deeply-rechargeable zinc anode with pomegranate-inspired nanostructure for high-energy aqueous batteries" in Journal of Materials Chemistry A, congratulations! This article is included in the journal's 2018 Emerging Investigator themed issue.
(October 22, 2018)--Former undergrad visting student Yu Yan along with Yamin Zhang published an article "A Lasagna-Inspired Nanoscale ZnO Anode Design for High-Energy Rechargeable Aqueous Batteries" on ACS Applied Energy Materials, congratulations!A Lasagna-Inspired Nanoscale ZnO Anode Design for High-Energy Rechargeable Aqueous Batteries
(October 22, 2018)--Jiabao Li from East China Normal Univeristy joins our group as a visting student. Welcome!
(October 10, 2018)--Dr.Martin Z. Bazant, the E. G. Roos Professor of Chemical Engineering and Mathematics and Executive Officer of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visited our lab!
(October 2, 2018)--Master's Student Po-Wei joins our group. Welcome!
(October 1, 2018)--Youn Ji joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome!
(September 13, 2018)--Yamin Zhang published an article "Sealing ZnO nanorods for deeply rechargeable high-energy aqueous battery anodes" on Nano Energy, congratulations!Sealing ZnO nanorods for deeply rechargeable high-energy aqueous battery anodes
(September 10, 2018)--Hugo Sancho from Mines ParisTech in Paris, France joins our group as a visting student. Welcome!
(August 22, 2018)--Yutong won the I&EC Division Graduate Student Award and gave an invited talk on ion-sieving carbon nanoshell for rechargeable Zn-based aqueous battries at the 256th ACS National Meeting in Boston.
(August 19, 2018)--Dr. Liu co-organized a symposium named "ENFL: Battery Technology: Vehicle to Grid" at the 256th ACS National Meeting in Boston and gave a talk on nanoscale material design for rechargeable zinc anodes for high energy aqueous batteries.
(August 16, 2018)--Dr. Liu gave an invited seminar in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, presenting the latest development of deeply rechargeable Zn anode for high-energy batteries that operate in aqueous electrolyte. Dr. Liu also gave an invited talk at the International Conference on Electrochemical Energy Science and Technology 2018 in Canada.
(August 2, 2018)--Panyiming Liu, Song Xia and Shaoyang Wu from USTC, Guangye Zhou and Yixuan Chen from Tianjin Univerisity, Pei Xiong from HuaZhong Tech and Henry Rose join our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
(June 19, 2018)--Dr. Tzuho Wu joins our group as a postdoctoral scholar, and DeAunna Daniels and Yiming Li join our group for summer research. Welcome!
(June 15, 2018)--The article "Graphene oxide-modified zinc anode for rechargeable aqueous batteries" by PhD student Yamin Zhang and undergraduate student Zhubo Zhou has been accepted for publication in the Chemical Engineering Science Special Issue on Nanomaterials for Catalysis and Electrochemical Processes, congratulations! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009250918304184
(June 7, 2018)--Yutong attended PALS Safety workshop in Houston, TX held by ExxonMobil. Partners in Academic Lab Safety (PALS) Safety workshop held by ExxonMobil in Houston, TX invites researchers from six universities including Georgia Tech to get insight into the culture of safety on industrial R&D labs. Tours, presentations and practice opportunities are provided at ExxonMobil.
(June 7, 2018)--Undergraduate student Harsh Patel won the President’s Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) for Fall 2018, congratulations! Harsh will work with graduate student mentor Yutong Wu to develop a microfluidic electrochemical cell for studying interfacial phenomena in flow batteries.
(March 23, 2018)--Dr. Meifang Zhu, the chair of Material Science and Engineering School at Donghua University, visited our lab!
(March 20, 2018) --Yamin volunteered for Georgia Tech’s CEISMC K.I.D.S. Club! See more information: Georgia Tech’s CEISMC K.I.D.S. Club
(February 28, 2018)--Dr. Khalil Amine, the head of the Technology Development group in the Battery Technology Department within Argonne’s Chemical Engineering Division, visited our lab!
(February 21, 2018)--Dr. Yi Zhang joins our group as a visiting scholar. Welcome!
(January 28, 2018)--Dr. Liu's citation has reached 10,000, congratulations! Nian Liu Google Scholar
(January 25, 2018)--Second-year PhD student Yutong Wu published an article "Visualizing Battery Reactions and Processes by Using In Situ and In Operando Microscopies" on Chem, congratulations!Visualizing Battery Reactions and Processes by Using In Situ and In Operando Microscopies
(January 23, 2018)--Yanghang Huang, Harsh Patel, Robert Trout, Chloe Pelkowski and Anmol Mathur join our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
(December 21, 2017)--Master's Student Haochen joins our group. Welcome!
(December 5, 2017)--Yamin Zhang's review article in Chemistry of Materials was a top download for November 2017, congratulations!Status in Chemistry of Materials
(November 2, 2017)--Undergrad researcher Zhubo Zhou wins President's Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for Spring 2018, congratulations!
(October 23, 2017)--Second-year PhD student Yamin Zhang published an article "Nanostructured Electrode Materials for High-Energy Rechargeable Li, Na and Zn Batteries" on Chemistry of Materials, congratulations!Nanostructured Electrode Materials for High-Energy Rechargeable Li, Na and Zn Batteries
(October 1, 2016)--Second-year PhD student Yamin Zhang submitted her first paper, good luck!
(August 22, 2017)--Tony Wang, Anna Marianchuk and Zhubo Zhou join our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
(July 14, 2017)--First-year PhD student Yutong Wu submitted his first paper, good luck!
(July 3, 2017)--Haoran Ding from Tianjin University joins our group as a summer student. Welcome!
(June 20, 2017)--Yu Yan from USTC joins our group as a summer student. Welcome!
(June 5, 2017)--Jimmy Westbrooks from Arabia Mountain High School joins our group as a visiting scholar. Welcome!
(June 2, 2017)--Yamin attends PALS Safety workshop in Houston, TX held by ExxonMobil. Partners in Academic Lab Safety (PALS) Safety workshop held by ExxonMobil in Houston, TX invites researchers from six universities including Georgia Tech to get insight into the culture of safety on industrial R&D labs. Tours, presentations and practice opportunities are provided at ExxonMobil.
(June 1, 2017)--Yutong is awarded to get a six-month block of IEN cleanroom and lab access time to work on the project In-Electrolyte Microscale Probing of Electrochemical Reactions and Processes.http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/591794/spring-2017-georgia-tech-institute-electronics-and-nanotechnology-ien-seed-grant-program
(May 22, 2017)--Jose Martinez from Texas A&M joins our group as a SURE summer student. Welcome!
(April 28, 2017)--Our brand new Ar glove box is installed!
(April 11, 2017)--1st year PhD student Yamin Zhang receives "Exemplary Academic Achievement" honor from ChBE. Congratulations!
(March 8, 2017)--Our lab is gradually filled with equipment for material synthesis, device assembly, and electrochemical testing.
(February 6, 2017)--Lab construction finished! Our lab is now up and running. Thanks to the support team at Georgia Tech!
(January 3, 2017)--Nian officially starts working at GT.
(January 1, 2017)--Nian published a commentary on Nature Materials with Steven Chu and Yi Cui. http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v16/n1/abs/nmat4834.html
(October 1, 2016)--Yamin and Yutong join the group as PhD students. Welcome!