Yang Shao-Horn

Gail E. Kendall Chair in Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering Page
Department of Material Science and Engineering Page

77 Massachusetts Ave
Rm 3-334
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617)-253-2259
email: shaohorn[AT]mit[DOT]edu

Research and Teaching Interests

Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies
Photoelectrocatalysis of O₂ and CO₂
Nanostructured Materials for Lithium Storage

Select Peer Reviewed Publications

Lu, Y.-C., E.J. Crumlin, G.M. Veith, J.R. Harding, E. Mutoro, L. Baggetto, N.J. Dudney, Z. Liu and Y. Shao-Horn In Situ Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Lithium-Oxygen Redox Reactions, Scientific Reports 2 article #715 October 2012
Lopez, N. , D.J. Graham, R. McGuire, Jr., G.E. Alliger, Y. Shao-Horn, C.C. Cummins and D.G. Nocera, Reversible Reduction of Oxygen to Peroxide Facilitated by Molecular Recognition, Science 335 (6067) 450 - 453 January 2012
Suntivich, J., K. J. May, J. B. Goodenough, H. A. Gasteiger and Y. Shao-Horn, A perovskite oxide optimized for oxygen evolution catalysis from molecular orbital principles Science 334(6061) 1383-1385 (December 2011)
Suntivich, J., H.A. Gasteiger, N. Yabuuchi, H. Nakanishi, J. B. Goodenough, Y. Shao-Horn, Design principles for oxygen-reduction activity on perovskite oxide catalysts for fuel cells and metal–air batteries, Nature Chemistry, 3 (7), 546–550 July 2011
Lee, S.W., N. Yabuuchi, G.M. Gallant, S. Chen, B.S. Kim, P.T. Hammond and Y. Shao-Horn, High-power lithium batteries from functionalized carbon nanotube electrodes, Nature Nanotechnology, 5 (7), 531–537 (July 2010)

Honors and Awards

2013, Research Award from the International Battery Association
2011, Gail E. Kendall Chair of Mechanical Engineering
2008, Tajima Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry
2008, Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award of The Electrochemical Society
2007, 3M Innovation Fund Award
2007, Invited Professorship at the Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Université de Nantes
2006, Air Products Faculty Excellence Award
2006, DuPont Young Faculty Award
2004, Invited Professorship at the University of Bordeaux I, France
2003, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
2002, Atlantic Richfield Career Development Professorship (2002-2005)
2000, NSF International Research Fellow (2000-2002)
1999, Norman Hackerman Young Author Award of The Electrochemical Society
1997, Battery Division Student Research Award of The Electrochemical Society

Select Professional Activities and Service

Battery Division of the Electrochemical Society
MIT Energy Research Council (2005-2006)
Energy and Environmental Science, Advisory Board (2011-)
Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Advisory Board (2011-)

Research Scientists
	Christopher Earl Carlton Postdoctoral Associate since 2009/Research Scientist since 2012 Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in University of Texas at Austin Research: TEM on electrochemical materials email: carltonc[AT]mit[DOT]edu
Postdoctoral Associates
	Zhenxing Feng Postdoctoral Associate since 2011 Ph.D. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University Research: In Situ Studies of Energy Materials email: z_feng[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Alexis Grimaud Postdoctoral Associate since 2012 Ph.D. Bordeaux Institut of Condensed Matter Chemistry ICMCB-CNRS, University of Bordeaux Research: Oxygen permeation membrane email: agrimaud[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Yueh-Lin Lee Postdoctoral Associate since 2012 Ph.D. Materials Science Program in University of Wisconsin-Madison Research: Modeling of defect chemistry and electrocatalysis on transition metal perovskite type oxides email: yllee[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Nir Pour Postdoctoral Associate since 2012 Ph.D. Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Research: Vanadium flow battery email: nirpour[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Marcel Risch Postdoctoral Associate since 2012 Ph.D. Free University Berlin Research: Water oxidation email: mrisch[AT]mit[DOT]edu
Visiting Researchers
	Prof. Dong Ha Kim Visiting Scholar 2013 Ph.D. Seoul National University Faculty at Ewha Womans University, Department of Chemistry and Nano Sciences Research: Hybrid nanostructures for applications in energy, environment, biosensing, memory, display and surface-Plasmon-based research activities email: polykim[AT]mit[DOT]edu
Visiting Students
	Milind Gadre Visiting Student 2013 Ph.D. student at U. Wisconsin - Madison with Prof. Dane Morgan Research: Low-temperature electrocatalysis email: gadre[AT]mit[DOT]edu

Graduate Students
	John Christopher Bachman Graduate Student Since 2012 B.S./M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis Research: Organic electrodes for batteries and supercapacitors email: jbachman[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Thomas Carney Graduate Student Since 2012 B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University Research: TBD email: tcarney[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Joseph Elias Graduate Student since 2011 B.A. Chemistry, Reed College Research: Synthesis of functionalized carbon nanomaterials for applications in low termpature CO oxidation and Li-air batteries email: jselias[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Betar Gallant Graduate Student since 2008 B.S./M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research: Lithiation of nanoparticles for battery applications email: bgallant[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Alex Binghong Han Graduate Student since 2011 B.S. Physics, Peking University Research: Electrocatalysis email: binghong[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Jonathon Harding Graduate Student since 2010 B.S. Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University Research: Lithium Air Battery email: jrhardin[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Wesley Hong Graduate Student since 2011 B.S. Mat. Sci. and Eng. with concentration in Physics, Stanford University Research: Electrocatalysis email: whong[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	David Kwabi Graduate Student since 2010 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University Research: Lithium Air Battery email: dkwabi[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Dongkyu Lee Graduate Student since 2009 B.S. Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Hanyang University M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Research: Solid Oxide Fuel Cell email: leedk[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Dongwook Lee Graduate Student since 2012 B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Research: Thermoelectrics email: dongwook[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Kevin May Graduate Student since 2010 B.Eng. Engineering Physics, McMaster University Research: Photocatalysis and Oxides email: kmay[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Kelsey Stoerzinger Graduate Student since 2011 M.Phil. Physics, University of Cambridge B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University Research: Electrocatalysis email: kastoerz[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Koffi Pierre Claver Yao Graduate Student since 2010 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware Research: Lithium Air Battery email: claver[AT]mit[DOT]edu

Undergraduate Students

PhD Students
	Ethan Crumlin ALS Postdoctoral Fellow Lawrence Berkeley National Lab email: ecrumlin[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Jungik Kim Hyundai Motors email: kignuj[AT]alum[DOT]mit[DOT]edu
	Gerardo Jose la O' Manager Primus Power, California
	Yi-Chun Lu Postdoctoral Associate Technical University Munich, Germany Assistant Professor (2013) Chinese University of Hong Kong email: yichunlu[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Seung Woo Lee Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology email: seung.lee[AT]me[DOT]gatech[DOT]edu
	Wenchao Sheng Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware email: wsheng[AT]udel[DOT]edu

	Jin Suntivich HUCE Fellow Harvard University Assistant Professor in Materials Science/Engineering (2013) Cornell University email: jinsun[AT]mit[DOT]edu

Postdoctoral Associates
	Reza Kavian Postdoctoral Associate Georgia Institute of Technology
	Sungjin Ahn Scientist Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), South Korea
	Hye Ryung Byon Group Leader RIKEN, Japan
	Christopher Earl Carlton Research Scientist MIT, EEL email: carltonc[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Shuo Chen Research Assistant Professor University of Houston
	Paulo Ferreira Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering University of Texas, Austin TX email: ferreira[AT]mail[DOT]utexas[DOT]edu Website
	Kei Hasegawa Research Associate University of Tokyo
	Susumu Imashuku Assistant Professor Kyoto University
	Junhyung Kim Scientist SK Energy, South Korea
	Yong-Tae Kim Associate Professor of Energy Systems Pusan National University, South Korea email: mailto:yongtae[at]pusan[dot]ac.kr Website
	Serkan Naci Koc Assistant Professor Istanbul University, Turkey
	Sundeep Kumar Scientist John Welch Tech. Center, GE, Bangalore email: ksunny_in[AT]yahoo[DOT]com
	Gerardo Jose la O' Manager Primus Power, California
	Seung Woo Lee Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology email: seung.lee[AT]me[DOT]gatech[DOT]edu
	Youngmin Lee Postdoctoral Associate NIST
	Yi-Chun Lu Assistant Professor Chinese University of Hong Kong email: yichunlu[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Robert McGuire Jr. Scientist BASF, USA
	Tian Ming Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Postdoctoral Fellow Research Laboratory of Electronics MIT email: tming[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Eva Mutoro Scientist BASF, Germany email: emutoro[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Lei Wang Scientist Robert Bosch, China email: ddsc1568[at]googlemail[dot]com
	Zhichuan Xu Assistant Professor Nanyang Technical University email: xuzc[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Naoaki Yabuuchi Assistant Professor of Applied Chemistry Osaka City University, Japan
	Bilge Yildiz Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering MIT email: byildiz[AT]mit[DOT]edu Website
Masters Students
	Anjuli Appapillai Masters Student
	Anne Clemencon Masters Student Areva, France
	Elisa Alonso Masters Student
	Hayley Han Li Masters Student Morgan Stanley
	John Paul Kurpiewski Masters Student Raytheon, MA, USA
	Chris Kuryak Master's Student
	Simcha Singer Masters Student
	Theodore Golfinopoulos Masters Student
Visiting Professors
	Hubert Gasteiger Visiting Professor, 2009 Professor Technical University Munich, Germany email: hubert[DOT]gasteiger[AT]gmail[DOT]com Website
	Robert F. Savinell Visiting Professor Professor of Chemical Engineering Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH email: rfs2[AT]case[DOT]edu Website
Visiting Scientists
	Tadashi Kawaguchi Visting Scholar
	Scott Donne Visiting Scientist 2010 Newcastle University, Australia email: Scott[DOT]Donne[AT]newcastle[DOT]edu[DOT]au Website
	George Marnellos Visiting Scientist Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering University of Western Macedonia, Greece
	Paulo Ferreira Visiting Scientist, 2005 Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering University of Texas, Austin TX email: ferreira[AT]mail[DOT]utexas[DOT]edu Website
	Birger Horstmann Visiting Scholar since 2012 Ph.D. Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich Research: Modeling of electrochemical systems email: bhorstm[AT]mit[DOT]edu
	Kai Wang Visiting Scholar since 2012 SMART-LEES postdoc, Singapore email: wangkai[AT]smart[dot]mit[DOT]edu
Other Members
	Markus Dulks email: markus[DOT]duelks[AT]cdi[DOT]fr
	Serkan Naci Koc email: nacik[AT]istanbul[DOT]edu[DOT]tr
	Yuki Orikasa Visiting Student Assistant Professor in the Office of Society Acedemia Collaboration for Innovation Kyoto University, Japan
	Yasuhiro Tsukada Visiting Student
	Yuvraj Birdja Visiting Student
	Anastasia Permyakova Visiting Student