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From left to right, Dr. Shuting Feng, Dr. Jonathan Hwang, Prof. Yang Shao-Horn, Dr. Pinar Karayaylali, and Dr. Reshma Rao.
The aim of these awards is to "celebrate and support the achievements of leading women in science and of those who have encouraged girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects around the world."
Read more about Tuning mobility and stability of lithium ion conductors based on lattice dynamics by
S. Muy, J. C. Bachman, L. Giordano, H.-H. Chang, D. L. Abernathy, D. Bansal, O. Delaire, S. Hori, R. Kanno, F. Maglia, S. Lupart, P. Lamp, and Y. Shao-Horn.
A project focused on designing stable and conductive polymers for Lithium batteries, led by Professors Yang Shao-Horn and Jeffery Grossman, will receive $10M in research funding from the Toyota Research Institute (TRI).
Scientists and producers usually face a problem to elaborate batteries of new types: lighter but at the same time more powerful and with higher energy storage capacity. One of the possible ways to do that is to replace modern lithium-ion batteries by so called lithium-air batteries. Such batteries would be able to accumulate five times more power than usual lithium-ion ones. One area, where they could make revolution, is electric cars, which now use lithium-ion batteries."-
EurekAlert.
EEL Research Highlights
Read more about Suppressing corrosion in primary aluminum–air batteries via oil displacement by
B. J. Hopkins, Y. Shao-Horn, and D. P. Hart.
Read more about Polarity governs atomic interaction through two-dimensional materials by
W. Kong, H. Li, K. Qiao, Y. Kim, K. Lee, Y. Nie, D. Lee, T. Osadchy, R. J. Molnar, D. K. Gaskill, R. L. Myers-Ward, K. M. Daniels, Y. Zhang,
S. Sundram, Y. Yu, S. Bae, S. Rajan, Y. Shao-Horn, K. Cho, A. Ougazzaden, J. C. Grossman, and J. Kim.
Read more about Tuning mobility and stability of lithium ion conductors based on lattice dynamics by
S. Muy, J. C. Bachman, L. Giordano, H.-H. Chang, D. L. Abernathy, D. Bansal, O. Delaire, S. Hori, R. Kanno, F. Maglia, S. Lupart, P. Lamp, and Y. Shao-Horn.
Study explains conflicting results from other experiments, may lead to batteries with more energy per pound.
David L. Chandler, MIT News Office
D. Sheberla, J. C. Bachman, J. S. Elias, C-J. Sun, Y. Shao-Horn, and M. Dinca
Owing to their high power density and superior cyclability relative to batteries, electrochemical double layer capacitors (EDLCs) have emerged as an important electrical energy storage technology that will play a critical role in the large-scale deployment of intermittent renewable energy sources, smart power grids, and electrical vehicles. Because the capacitance and charge–discharge rates of EDLCs scale with surface area and electrical conductivity, respectively, porous carbons such as activated carbon, carbon nanotubes and crosslinked or holey graphenes are used exclusively as the active electrode materials in EDLCs. One class of materials whose surface area far exceeds that of activated carbons, potentially allowing them to challenge the dominance of carbon electrodes in EDLCs, is metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). The high porosity of MOFs, however, is conventionally coupled to very poor electrical conductivity, which has thus far prevented the use of these materials as active electrodes in EDLCs. Here, we show that Ni3(2,3,6,7,10,11-hexaiminotriphenylene)2 (Ni3(HITP)2), a MOF with high electrical conductivity11, can serve as the sole electrode material in an EDLC. This is the first example of a supercapacitor made entirely from neat MOFs as active materials, without conductive additives or other binders. The MOF-based device shows an areal capacitance that exceeds those of most carbon-based materials and capacity retention greater than 90% over 10,000 cycles, in line with commercial devices. Given the established structural and compositional tunability of MOFs, these results herald the advent of a new generation of supercapacitors whose active electrode materials can be tuned rationally, at the molecular level. Continue reading.
B. Han, K. A. Stoerzinger, V. Tileli, A. D. Gamalski, E. A. Stach, and Y. Shao-Horn
Understanding the interaction between water and oxides is critical for many technological applications, including energy storage, surface wetting/self-cleaning, photocatalysis and sensors. Here, we report observations of strong structural oscillations of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3−δ (BSCF) in the presence of both H2O vapour and electron irradiation using environmental transmission electron microscopy. These oscillations are related to the formation and collapse of gaseous bubbles. Electron energy-loss spectroscopy provides direct evidence of O2 formation in these bubbles due to the incorporation of H2O into BSCF. SrCoO3−δ was found to exhibit small oscillations, while none were observed for La0.5Sr0.5CoO3−δ and LaCoO3. The structural oscillations of BSCF can be attributed to the fact that its oxygen 2p-band centre is close to the Fermi level, which leads to a low energy penalty for oxygen vacancy formation, high ion mobility, and high water uptake. This work provides surprising insights into the interaction between water and oxides under electron-beam irradiation. Continue reading.
Kwabi, D.G. , V.S. Bryantsev, T.P. Batcho, D.M. Itkis, C.V. Thompson and Y. Shao-Horn
Understanding and controlling the kinetics of O2 reduction in the presence of Li+-containing aprotic solvents, to either Li+-O2- by one-electron reduction or Li2O2 by two-electron reduction, is instrumental to enhance the discharge voltage and capacity of aprotic Li-O2 batteries. Standard potentials of O2/Li+-O2- and O2/O2- were experimentally measured and computed using a mixed cluster-continuum model of ion solvation. Increasing combined solvation of Li+ and O2- was found to lower the coupling of Li+-O2- and the difference between O2/Li+-O2- and O2/O2- potentials. The solvation energy of Li+ trended with donor number (DN), and varied greater than that of O2- ions, which correlated with acceptor number (AN), explaining a previously reported correlation between Li+-O2- solubility and DN. These results highlight the importance of the interplay between ion–solvent and ion–ion interactions for manipulating the energetics of intermediate species produced in aprotic metal–oxygen batteries. Continue reading.
Stoerzinger, K.A., W.T. Hong, E.J. Crumlin, H. Bluhm, and Y. Shao-Horn
In this Account, we briefly review the working principles and current status of AP-XPS. We use several recent in situ studies on model electrochemical components as well as operando studies performed by our groups at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to illustrate that AP-XPS is both a chemically and an electrically specific tool since photoelectrons carry information on both the local chemistry and electrical potentials. The applications of AP-XPS to oxygen electrocatalysis shown in this Account span well-defined studies of (1) the oxide/oxygen gas interface, (2) the oxide/water vapor interface, and (3) operando measurements of half and full electrochemical cells. Using specially designed model devices, we can expose and isolate the electrode or interface of interest to the incident X-ray beam and AP-XPS analyzer to relate the electrical potentials to the composition/chemical state of the key components and interfaces. We conclude with an outlook on new developments of AP-XPS end stations, which may provide significant improvement in the observation of dynamics over a wide range of time scales, higher spatial resolution, and improved characterization of boundary or interface layers (solid/solid and liquid/solid). Continue reading.
Gauthier, M., T.J. Carney, A. Grimaud, L. Giordano, N. Pour, H.-H. Chang, D.P. Fenning, S.F. Lux, O. Paschos, C. Bauer, F. Maglia, S. Lupart, P. Lamp, and Y. Shao-Horn
Understanding reactions at the electrode/electrolyte interface (EEI) is essential to developing strategies to enhance cycle life and safety of lithium batteries. Despite research in the past four decades, there is still limited understanding by what means different components are formed at the EEI and how they influence EEI layer properties. We review findings used to establish the well-known mosaic structure model for the EEI (often referred to as solid electrolyte interphase or SEI) on negative electrodes including lithium, graphite, tin, and silicon. Much less under-standing exists for EEI layers for positive electrodes. High-capacity Li-rich layered oxides yLi2−xMnO3·(1−y)Li1-xMO2, which can generate highly reactive species toward the electrolyte via oxygen anion redox, highlight the critical need to understand reactions with the electrolyte and EEI layers for advanced positive electrodes. Recent advances in in situ characterization of well-defined electrode surfaces can provide mechanistic insights and strategies to tailor EEI layer composition and properties. Continue reading.
Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Wesley T. Hong, Gisele Azimi, Livia Giordano, Yueh-Lin Lee, Ethan J. Crumlin, Michael D. Biegalski, Hendrik Bluhm, Kripa K. Varanasi, and Yang Shao-Horn
Oxides are instrumental to applications such as catalysis, sensing, and wetting, where the reactivity with water can greatly influence their functionalities. We find that the coverage of hydroxyls (*OH) measured at fixed relative humidity trends with the electron-donor (basic) character of wetted perovskite oxide surfaces. Using ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, we report that the affinity toward hydroxylation, coincident with strong adsorption energies calculated for dissociated water and hydroxyl groups, leads to strong H bonding that is favorable for wetting while detrimental to catalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Our findings provide novel insights into the coupling between wetting and catalytic activity and suggest that catalyst hydrophobicity should be considered in aqueous oxygen electrocatalysis.
New research shows non-wetting surfaces promote chemical reaction rates.
David L. Chandler, MIT News Office
Hong, W.T., K.A. Stoerzinger, B. Moritz, T.P. Devereaux, W. Yang, and Y. Shao-Horn
We examined the electronic structure in LaMO3 perovskite oxides (M = Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) by combining information from X-ray emission, absorption, and photoelectron spectroscopy. Through first-principles density functional theory simulations, we identified complementary hybridization features present in the transition metal and oxygen X-ray emission spectra. We then developed a method for the self-consistent alignment of the emission data onto a common energy scale using these features, providing a valuable supplementary technique to photoelectron spectroscopy for studying the partial density of states in perovskites. Continue reading.
Journal of American Chemical Society, 2018, 140 (35), pp 10932–10936
B. Qiao, G. M. Leverick, W. Zhao, A. H. Flood, J. A. Johnson, and Y. Shao-Horn
Accounts of Chemical Research, 48(11) 2016
K.A.Stoerzinger, W.T. Hong, E.J. Crumlin, H. Bluhm, and Y. Shao-Horn
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6(22) 2015
M. Gauthier, T.J. Carney, A. Grimaud, L. Giordano, N. Pour, H.-H. Chang, D.P. Fenning, S.F. Lux, O. Paschos, C. Bauer, F. Maglia, S. Lupart, P. Lamp, and Y. Shao-Horn
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(35) 2010
Lu, Y.C., Z.C. Xu, H.A. Gasteiger, S. Chen, K. Hamad-Schifferli and Y. Shao-Horn
Microscopy and Microanalysis, 10(1) 2004
O’Keefe, M. A. and Y. Shao-Horn
Fall 2019
Welcome Christopher Mallia, Daniele Vivona, Dimitrios Fraggedakis and Alessandra Accogli to EEL!
Congratulations to EEL alumnus Dr. Naoaki Yabuuchi for winning the IUPAC award for Nb in this special year celebrating the periodic table!
Congratulations to Jaclyn Lunger for recieving a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research award!
Congratulations to Graham Leverick on being selected as a 2020 Siebel Foundation Scholar!
Spring 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Juan Jose Giner Sanz on being awarded the 2018 Extraordinaty Doctoral Thesis Award in Chemical Engineering!
Congratulations to EEL alumnus Averey Chan on winning best MS research project!
Congratulations to EEL alumnus Dr. Ethan Crumlin on being awarded the ISE-Elsevier Prize for Experimental Electrochemistry!
Congratulations to EEL alumnus Dr. Zhichuan Xu on being selected for the Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry!
Congratulations to our new PhD's, Dr. Shuting Feng, Dr. Reshma Rao, Dr. Jonathan Hwang, and Dr. Pinar Karayaylali!
Congratulations to Thaneer and Yirui for recieving the Wunsch: Outstanding Graduate Research Award!
Congratulations to J. Hwang, Z. Feng, N. Charles, X. R. Wang, D. Lee, K. A. Stoerzinger, S. Muy, R. R. Rao, D. Lee, R. Jacobs, D. Morgan and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Tuning perovskite oxides by strain: electronic structure, properties, and unctions in (electro)catalysis and ferroelectricity in Materials Today!
Congratulations to R. Ignatans, G. Mallia, E. A. Ahmad, L. Spillane, K. A. Stoerzinger, Y. Shao-Horn, N. M. Harrison, and V. Tileli on the publication of The Effect of Surface Reconstruction on the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Properties of LaMnO3 in JPCC!
Congratulations to P. Karayaylali, R. Tatara, Y. Zhang, K-L. Chan, Y. Yu, L. Giordano, F. Maglia, R. Jung, I. Lund, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Coating-Dependent Electrode-Electrolyte Interface for Ni-Rich Positive Electrodes in Li-Ion Batteries in JECS!
Winter 2019
Congratulations to EEL alumnus Dr. Seung Woo Lee on being awarded a promotion to Associate Professor with tenure at Georgia Institute of Technology!
Congratulations to T. Zakharchenko, M. Avdeev, A. V. Sergeev, A. V. Chertovich, O. I. Ivankov, V. I. Petrenko, Y. Shao-Horn, L. V. Yashina, and D. M. Itkis on the publication of Small-angle Neutron Scattering Studies of Pore Filling in Carbon Electrodes: Mechanisms Limiting Lithium-Air Battery Capacity in Nanoscale!
Congratulations to C. Wei, R. R. Rao, J .Peng, B. Huang, I. E. Stephens, M. Risch, Z. J. Xu, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Recommended Practices and Benchmark Activity for Hydrogen and Oxygen Electrocatalysis in Water Splitting and Fuel Cells in Advanced Materials!
Congratulations to G. Leverick, M. Tulodziecki, R. Tatara, F. Barde, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Solvent-Dependent Oxidizing Power of LiI Redox Couples for Li-O2 Batteries in Joule!
Congratulations to Jackie and Jiayu on passing the qualifying exams!! Big congrats!!
Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Lopez on receiving the 2019 Young Chemist Award by Metrohm USA!!
Congratulations to Yirui, Thaneer, and Seungchan on passing the qualifying exams!! Big congrats!!
Congratulations to Z.H. Zhu, J. Strempfer, R.R. Rao, C.A. Occhialini, J. Pelliciari, Y. Choi, T. Kawaguchi, H. You, J.F. Mitchell, Y. Shao-Horn, and R. Comin on the publication of Anomalous Antiferromagnetism in Metallic RuO2 Determined by Resonant X-ray Scattering in Phys. Rev. Lett.!
Congratulations to T. Qiu, Z. Liang, W. Guo, S. Gao, C. Qu, H. Tabassum, H. Zhang, B. Zhu, R. Zou, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Highly Exposed Ruthenium-based Electrocatalysts from Bimetallic Metal-organic Frameworks for Overall Water Splitting in Nano Energy!
Congratulations to R. Jacobs, J. Hwang, Y. Shao-Horn, and D. Morgan on the publication of Assessing correlations of perovskite catalytic performance with electronic structure descriptors in Chem. Mater.!
Fall 2018
Congratulations to Y. Katayama, F. Nattino, L. Giordano, J. Hwang, R. R. Rao, O. Andreussi, N. Marzari, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of An In Situ Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction: Selectivity Dependence on Surface C-Bound and O-Bound Reaction Intermediates in JPCC!
Congratulations to R. Tatara, P. Karayaylali, Y. Yu, Y. Zhang, L. Giordano, F. Maglia, R. Jung, J. P. Schmidt, I. Lund, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of The Effect of Electrode-Electrolyte Interface on the Electrochemical Impedance Spectra for Positive Electrode in Li-Ion Battery in JECS!
Congratulations to D. Lee, J. Zhou, G. Chen, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties for PEDOT:PSS/Undoped Ge Thin‐Film Bilayered Heterostructures in Advanced Electronic Materials!
Prof. Yang Shao-Horn has been named a 2018 highly cited researcher! Congrats, Yang!
Congratulations to B. J. Hopkins, Y. Shao-Horn, D. P. Hart on the publication of Suppressing corrosion in primary aluminum–air batteries via oil displacement in Science!
Congratulations to Y. Yu, P. Karayaylali, Y. Katayama, L. Giordano, M. Gauthier, F. Maglia, R. Jung, I. Lund, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Coupled LiPF6 Decomposition and Carbonate Dehydrogenation Enhanced by Highly Covalent Metal Oxides in High-Energy Li-Ion Batteries in J. Phys. Chem. C!
Welcome Dr. Juan Sanz, Christopher Kiel and Alejandra Navarro to EEL!
Congratulations to K. A. Stoerzinger, X. R. Wang, J. Hwang, R. R. Rao, W. T. Hong, C. M. Rouleau, D. Lee, Y. Yu, E. J. Crumlin, Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Speciation and Electronic Structure of La1−xSrxCoO3−δ During Oxygen Electrolysis in Topics in Catalysis!
Congratulations to Y. Shibuya, R. Tatara, Y. Jiang, Y. Shao-Horn, and J. A. Johnson on the publication of Brush-First ROMP of poly(ethylene oxide) macromonomers of varied length: impact of polymer architecture on thermal behavior and li+ conductivity in the Journal of Polymer Science A.!
Congratulations to W. Kong, H. Li, K. Qiao, Y. Kim, K. Lee, Y. Nie, D. Lee, T. Osadchy, R. J. Molnar, D. K. Gaskill, R. L. Myers-Ward, K. M. Daniels, Y. Zhang, S. Sundram, Y. Yu, S. Bae, S. Rajan, Y. Shao-Horn, K. Cho, A. Ougazzaden, J. C. Grossman, and J. Kim on the publication of Polarity governs atomic interaction through two-dimensional materials in Nature Materials!
Welcome Dr. Shuai Yuan and Janet Nienhuis to EEL!
Congratulations to T. Krauskopf, S. Muy, S. P. Culver, S. Ohno, O. Delaire, Y. Shao-Horn, and W. G. Zeier on the publication of Comparing the descriptors for investigating the influence of lattice dynamics on ionic transport using the superionic conductor Na3PS4-xSex in the Journal of the American Chemical Society!
Congratulations to X. Wang, X. Zhang, L. Sun, D. Lee, S. Lee, M. Wang, J. Zhao, Y. Shao-Horn, M. Dinca, T. Palacios, and K. K. Gleason on the publication of High electrical conductivity and carrier mobility in oCVD PEDOT thin films by engineered crystallization and acid treatment in Science Advances!
Congratulations to R. R. Rao, M. J. Kolb, J. Hwang, A. F. Pedersen, A. Mehta, H. You, K. A. Stoerzinger, Z. Feng, H. Zhou, H. Bluhm, L. Giordano, I. E. L. Stephens, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Surface Orientation Dependent Water Dissociation on Rutile Ruthenium Dioxide in J. Phys. Chem. C!
Summer 2018
Congratulations to J. Hwang, R. R. Rao, Y. Katayama, D. Lee, X. R. Wang, E. Crumlin, T. Venkatesan, H. N. Lee, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of CO2 Reactivity on Cobalt-Based Perovskites in JPCC!
Congratulations to P. Sebastian, M. Tulodziecki, M. del Pilar Bernicola, V. Climent, E. Gomez, Y. Shao-Horn, and J. M. Feliu on the publication of The Use of CO as Cleaning Tool of Highly Active Surfaces in Contact with Ionic Liquids. Ni Deposition on Pt(111) Surfaces in IL in ACS Applied Energy Materials!
Congratulations to W. Zhang, M. Huang, S. al Abdullatif, M. Chen, Y. Shao-Horn, and J. A. Johnson on the publication of Reduction of (Meth)acrylate-Based Block Copolymers Provides Access to Self-Assembled Materials with Ultrasmall Domains in Macromolecules!
Congratulations to Sokseiha Muy, J.C. Bachman, H.-H. Chang, L. Giordano, F. Maglia, S. Lupart, P. Lamp, W.G. Zeier, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Lithium Conductivity and Meyer-Neldel Rule in Li3PO4–Li3VO4–Li4GeO4 Lithium Superionic Conductors in Chemistry of Materials!
Congratulations to S. Feng, J. R. Lunger, J. A. Johnson, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of the perspective Hot lithium-oxygen batteries charge ahead in Science!
Jeffrey Lopez has been selected as the winner of the 2018 Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science for his PhD work! Congrats Jeff!
Congratulations to P. A. Linford, L. Xu, B. Huang, Y. Shao-Horn and C. V. Thompson on the publication of Multi-cell thermogalvanic systems for harvesting energy from cyclic temperature changes in J Power Sources!
Congratulations to C. Roy, R. R. Rao, K. A. Stoerzinger, J. Hwang, J. Rossmeisl, I. Chorkendorff, Y. Shao-Horn and I. E. L. Stephens on the publication of Trends in Activity and Dissolution on RuO2 under Oxygen Evolution Conditions: Particles versus Well-Defined Extended Surfaces in ACS Energy Letters!
Congratulations to D. Perego, J. S. T. Henga, X. Wang, Y. Shao-Horn and C. V.Thompson on the publication of High-performance polycrystalline RuOx cathodes for thin film Li-ion batteries in Electrochimica Acta!
Congratulations to B. Han, M. Risch, S. Belden, S. Lee, D. Bayer, E. Mutoro and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Screening Oxide Support Materials for OER Catalysts in Acid in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society!
Congratulations to Y. Katayama, L. Giordano, R. R. Rao, J. Hwang, H. Muroyama, T. Matsui, K. Eguchi, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Surface (Electro)chemistry of CO2 on Pt Surface: An in Situ Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Study In the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
Congratulations to R. Tatara, G. M. Leverick, S. Feng, S. Wan, S. Terada, K. Dokko, M. Watanabe, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Tuning NaO2 Cube Sizes by Controlling Na+ and Solvent Activity in Na-O2 Batteries In the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
Congratulations to K. R. Phillips, Y. Katayama, J. Hwang, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Sulfide-Derived Copper for Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 to Formic Acid in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Congratulations to EEL alumna Kelsey Stoerzinger on receiving the Nature Research Inspiring Science Award!
Bo Qiao, Graham M. Leverick, Wei Zhao, Amar H. Flood, Jeremiah A. Johnson, and Yang Shao-Horn's work Supramolecular Regulation of Anions Enhances Conductivity and Transference Number of Lithium in Liquid Electrolytes is featured in C&EN ! Congrats!!
EEL alumnus Ethan Crumlin has recieved the DOE young investigator award! Congratulations Ethan!
Welcome Kakuya Ueda and Averey Chan to EEL!
Congratulations to Jeffrey Lopez on being awarded an IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship!
Spring 2018
EEL's end-of-semester celebration! Congratulations to Dr. Tom Batcho, Dr. Seiha Muy, and Dr. Dongwook Lee for their successful thesis defenses!
Reshma Rao is awarded the Wunch: Outstanding Graduate Research Award in ME! Congratulations Reshma!
Graham Leverick is awarded the Sontheimer Award in ME! Congratulations Graham!
Congratulations to B. Huang, S. Muy, S. Feng, Y. Katayama, Y.C. Lu, G. Chen, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Non-covalent interactions in electrochemical reactions and implications for clean energy applications in the journal of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics!
Congratulations to M. Gauthier, P. Karayaylali, L. Giordano, S. Feng, S. F. Lux, F. Maglia, P. Lamp, and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Probing Surface Chemistry Changes Using LiCoO2-only Electrodes in Li-Ion Batteries in JECS!
Congratulations to T. M. Østergaard, L. Giordano, I. E. Castelli, F. Maglia, B. K. Antonopoulos, Y. Shao-Horn, and J. Rossmeisl on the publication of Oxidation of Ethylene Carbonate on Li Metal Oxide Surfaces in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
Welcome Dr. Chaoyu Li and Alexander Tygesen to EEL!!
Prof. Yang Shao-Horn is the winner of 2018 RSC Electrochemistry Interest Group Faraday Medalist! Congrats, Yang!
Nature Research, partnering with The Estée Lauder Companies, announced the inaugural Inspiring Science Award and Innovating Science Award, the aim of which is to "celebrate and support the achievements of leading women in science and of those who have encouraged girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects around the world."
EEL alumnus Dr. Seung Woo Lee received the NSF CAREER Award. Seung Woo proposed to study the fundamental understanding of electrochemical exfoliation mechanisms of 2D layered materials, such as graphite and MoS2, for energy storage applications. Congrats, Seung Woo!
Seiha's research - Tuning mobility and stability of lithium ion conductors based on lattice dynamics - is featured on MIT news: A new way to find better battery materials. Congrats, Seiha!!
Congratulations to A. Chaudhuri, L. Mandal, X. Chi, M. Yang, M. C. Scott, M. Motapothula, X. J. Yu, P. Yang, Y. Shao-Horn, T. Venkatesan, A. T. S. Wee, and A. Rusydi on the publication of Direct observation of anisotropic small-hole polarons in an orthorhombic structure of BiVO4 films in Physical Review B!
Congratulations to Musbaudeen O. Bamgbopa, Yang Shao-Horn, Raed Hashaikeh, and Saif Almheiri on the publication of Cyclable membraneless redox flow batteries based on immiscible liquid electrolytes: Demonstration with all-iron redox chemistry in Electrochimica Acta!
Congratulations to Binghong Han, Alexis Grimaud, Livia Giordano, Wesley T. Hong, Oscar Diaz-Morales, Lee Yueh-Lin, Jonathan Hwang, Nenian Charles, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Wanli Yang, Marc T. M. Koper, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Iron-Based Perovskites for Catalyzing Oxygen Evolution Reaction in JPCC!
Congratulations to William P. Mounfield III, Aaron Garg, Yang Shao-Horn, and Yuriy Román-Leshkov on the publication of Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction for the Production of Hydrogen Peroxide in Chem!
EEL alum Dr. Jin Suntivich won the 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry! Congrats, Jin!
Congratulations to Mingjun Huang, Shuting Feng, Wenxu Zhang, Livia Giordano, Mao Chen, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Robinson Anandakathir, Yang Shao-Horn, and Jeremiah A. Johnson on the publication of Fluorinated Aryl Sulfonimide Tagged (FAST) salts: modular synthesis and structure–property relationships for battery applications in Energy Environ. Sci.!
Congratulations to Sokseiha Muy, John C. Bachman, Livia Giordano, Hao-Hsun Chang, Douglas L. Abernathy, Dipanshu Bansal, Oivier Delaire, Satoshi Hori, Ryoji Kanno, Filippo Maglia, Saskia Lupart, Peter Lamp, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Tuning mobility and stability of lithium ion conductors based on lattice dynamics in Energy Environ. Sci.!
EEL alum Dr. David Kwabi will join University of Michigan as an assistant professor in Jan 2019! Congrats, David!
Welcome Dr. Yunguang Zhu, Dr. Jeffery Lopez, and Kuei-Lin (Gary) Chan to the EEL!!
EEL alum Prof. Yi-Chun Lu received tenure at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Congratulations, Yi-Chun!
Prof. Yang Shao-Horn is elected as a new member by National Academy of Engineering. Congratulations, Yang!
Fall 2017
Congratulations to Denis A. Kuznetsov, Binghong Han, Yang Yu, Reshma R. Rao, Jonathan Hwang, Yuriy Román-Leshkov, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Tuning Redox Transitions via Inductive Effect in Metal Oxides and Complexes, and Implications in Oxygen Electrocatalysis in Joule!
Prof. Yang Shao-Horn is inducted as a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society. Congratulations, Yang!
Welcome Dr. Bin Cai and Jaclyn Rose Lunger to the EEL!!
Congratulations to Ibrahim Mustafa, Musbaudeen O. Bamgbopa, Eman Alraeesi, Yang Shao-Horn, Hong Sun, and Saif Almheiri on the publication of Insights on the Electrochemical Activity of Porous Carbonaceous Electrodes in Non-Aqueous Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries in JECS!
Congratulations to Reshma R. Rao, Manuel J. Kolb, Niels B. Halck, Anders F. Pedersen, Apurva Mehta, Hoydoo You, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Zhenxing Feng, Heine A. Hansen, Hua Zhou, Livia Giordano, Jan Rosmeisl, Tejs Vegge, Ib Chorkendorff, Ifan Stephens, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Towards identifying the active sites on RuO2 (110) in catalyzing oxygen evolution in EES!
Congratulations to Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Wesley T. Hong, Xiao Renshaw Wang, Reshma R. Rao, Srinivas B. Subramanyam, Chengjian Li, * Ariando, T. Venkatesan, Qiang Liu, Ethan J. Crumlin, Kripa K, Varanasi, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Decreasing Hydroxylation Affinity of La(1-x)SrxMnO3 Perovskites to Promote Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis in Chem. Mater.!
Congratulations to Jonathan Hwang, Reshma R. Rao, Livia Giordano, Yu Katayama, Yang Yu, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Perovskites in catalysis and electrocatalysis in Science!
Congratulations to Shuting Feng, Mao Chen, Livia Giordano, Mingjun Huang, Wenxu Zhang, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Robinson Anandakathir, Yang Shao-Horn, and Jeremiah A. Johnson on the publication of Mapping a stable solvent structure landscape for aprotic Li–air battery organic electrolytes in JMCA!
Congratulations to Wesley T. Hong, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Yueh-Lin Lee, Livia Giordano, Alexis Grimaud, Alyssa M. Johnson, Jonathan Hwang, Ethan J. Crumlin, Wanli Yang, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Charge-transfer-energy-dependent oxygen evolution reaction mechanisms for perovskite oxides in EES!
Congratulations to Joseph S. Elias, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Wesley T. Hong, Marcel Risch, Livia Giordano, Azzam N. Mansour, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of In Situ Spectroscopy and Mechanistic Insights into CO Oxidation on Transition-Metal-Substituted Ceria Nanoparticles in ACS Catal!
Congratulations to Dr. Soo Kim on winning the IEEE H.H. Dow Memorial Student Achievement Award!
Welcome Dr. Nenian Charles, Dr. Juan Corchado Garcia, Dr. Soo Kim, Dr. Bo Qiao, Dr. Judith J. van Gorp, Tae Joong (TJ) Park, Jiayu Peng, Seungchan Ryu, Jame Sun, Yirui Zhang, Thomas Vagn Hogg, and Claudie Roy to the EEL!!
Summer 2017
Dr. Koffi P. C. Yao will join University of Delaware Department of Mechanical Engineering as an assistant professor in Fall 2018. Congratulations, Pierre!
Prof. Zhichuan Xu obtained tenure in Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Congratulations, Zhichuan!
Prof. Jin Suntivich won the DOE 2017 Young Investigator Award. Congratulations, Jin!
Congratulations to Livia Giordano, Pinar Karayaylali, Yang Yu, Yu Katayama, Filippo Maglia, Simon Lux, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Chemical Reactivity Descriptor for the Oxide-Electrolyte Interface in Li-Ion Batteries in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Congratulations to Marcel Risch, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Binghong Han, Tom Z. Regier, Derek Peak, Sayed Youssef Sayed, Chao Wei, Zhichuan Xu, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Redox Processes of Manganese Oxide in Catalyzing Oxygen Evolution and Reduction: An in Situ Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study in Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Congratulations to Michał Tułodziecki, Graham M. Leverick, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Yu Katayama, David G. Kwabi, Fanny Bardé, Paula T. Hammond and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of The role of iodide in the formation of lithium hydroxide in lithium–oxygen batteries in Energy Environmental Science
Open Seminar "Development of Protonic Ceramic Conductors for SOFC and Other Devices” by Dr. Noboru Taniguchi from Panasonic will be held on Friday, July 21, 3:00 - 4:30 pm, in Bldg-Room 3-350
Spring 2017
Dr. Michal Tulodziecki will join Holst Centre as a research scientist in August. Congratulations, Michal!
Congratulations to Yang Yu on passing the DMSE written qualifying exam!
Former MIT Peabody visiting associate professor from Technical University of Denmark, Prof. Ifan Stephens, will join the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Imperial College this fall. Congratulations, Ifan!
EEL alum, Dr. Dongkyu Lee, currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Oak Ridge National lab, will join the Mechanical Engineering Department at University of South Carolina, Columbia as a tenure-track assistant professor in Jan 2018. Congratulations, DK!
Dr. Chris Bachman will join Califorina State University, Los Angeles as a faculty member this fall. Congratulations, Chris!
Congratulations to Shuting Feng on being selected as a Link Energy fellow!
EEL members are discussing strategies of enhancing catalytic activity for oxygen evolution reaction (OER)! Read more here!
Congratulations to Musbaudeen O. Bamgbopa, Yang Shao-Horn and Saif Almheiri on the publication of The Potential of Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries as Fast-Charging Capable Energy Storage Solutions: Demonstration with an Iron–Chromium Acetylacetonate Chemistry in Journal of Materials Chemistry A!
Congratulations to Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Reshma R. Rao, Xiao R. Wang, Wesley T. Hong, Christopher M. Rouleau, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of The Role of Ru Redox in pH-Dependent Oxygen Evolution on Rutile Ruthenium Dioxide Surfaces in Chem!
Congratulations to Nitul S. Rajput, Yang Shao-Horn, Xinhao Li, Gang-Gook Kim, and Mustapha Jouiad on the publication of Investigation of Plasmonic Resonance in Metal/Dielectric Nanocavities for high-efficiency photocatalytic device in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics!
Congratulations to Chao Wei, Zhenxing Feng, Günther G. Scherer, James Barber, Yang Shao-Horn, and Zhichuan J. Xu on the publication of Cations in Octahedral Sites: A Descriptor for Oxygen Electrocatalysis on Transition-Metal Spinels in Advanced Materials!
Congratulation to Dr. Chris Bachman for his successful thesis defense!
Congratulations to Ryoichi Tatara, David G. Kwabi, Thomas P. Batcho, Michal Tulodziecki, Kenta Watanabe, Hoi-Min Kwon, Morgan L. Thomas, Kazuhide Ueno, Carl V. Thompson, Kaoru Dokko , Yang Shao-Horn, and Masayoshi Watanabe on the publication of Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Highly Concentrated Electrolyte Solutions of Lithium Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)amide/Dimethyl Sulfoxide in The Journal of Physical Chemistry!
Congratulations to Robert Morasch, David G. Kwabi, Michal Tulodziecki, Marcel Risch, Shiyu Zhang, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Insights into Electrochemical Oxidation of NaO2 in Na–O2 Batteries via Rotating Ring Disk and Spectroscopic Measurements in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces!
Congratulations to L. Kornblum, D. P. Fenning, J. Faucher, J. Hwang, A. Boni, M. G. Han, M. D. Morales-Acosta, Y. Zhu, E. I. Altman, M. L. Lee, C. H. Ahn, F. J. Walker and Y. Shao-Horn on the publication of Solar hydrogen production using epitaxial SrTiO3 on a GaAs photovoltaic in Energy Environmental Science!
A project focused on designing stable and conductive polymers for Lithium batteries, led by Professors Yang Shao-Horn and Jeffery Grossman, will receive $10M in research funding from the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). Read more here!
Congratulations to Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Oscar Diaz-Morales, Manuel Kolb, Reshma R. Rao, Rasmus Frydendal, Liang Qiao, Xiao R. Wang, Niels B. Halck, Jan Rossmeisl, Heine A. Hansen, Tejs Vegge, Ifan E.L. Stephens, Marc T.M. Koper, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Orientation-Dependent Oxygen Evolution on RuO2 without Lattice Exchange in ACS Energy Letters!
Congratulations to Alexis Grimaud, Oscar Diaz-Morales, Binghong Han, Wesley T. Hong, Yueh-Lin Lee, Livia Giordano, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Marc T. M. Koper, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Activating lattice oxygen redox reactions in metal oxides to catalyse oxygen evolution in Nature Chemistry!
Congratulations to Alina I. Belova, David G. Kwabi, Lada V. Yashina, Yang Shao-Horn, and Daniil M. Itkis on the publication of On the Mechanism of Oxygen Reduction in Aprotic Li-Air Batteries: The Role of Carbon Electrode Surface Structure in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
Fall 2016
The new issue of MITEI magazine Energy Futures is now online! You can check out the Q&As with the LCEC co-directors here!
Congratulations to Joohyuk Park, Marcel Risch, Gyutae Nam, Minjoon Park, Tae Joo Shin, Suhyeon Park, Min Gyu Kim, Yang Shao-Horn, and Jaephil Cho on the publication of Single Crystalline Pyrochlore Nanoparticles with Metallic Conduction as Efficient Bi-functional Oygen Electrocatalysts for Zn–air Batteries in Energy Envrion. Sci.!
Congratulations to Musbaudeen O. Bamgbopa, Nir Pour, Yang Shao-Horn, and Saif Almheiri on the publication of Systematic Selection of Solvent Mixtures for Non-aqueous Redox Flow Batteries – Vanadium Acetylacetonate as a Model System in Electrochimica Acta!
Congratulations to Dongwook Lee, Sayed Y. Sayed, Sangyeop Lee, Chris A. Kuryak, Jiawei Zhou, Gang Chen, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Quantitative Analyses of Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of Modulation-Doped PEDOT:PSS / Undoped Si (001) Nanoscale Heterostructures in Nanoscale!
Congratulations to Azzam N. Mansour, David G. Kwabi, Ronald A. Quinlan, Yi-Chun Lu, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Probing the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface in Cycled LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 by XPS Using Mg and Synchrotron X-rays in Journal of the Electrochemical Society!
Congratulations to Dennis Sheberla, John C. Bachman, Joseph S. Elias, Cheng-Jun Sun, Yang Shao-Horn, and Mircea Dinca on the publication of Conductive MOF Electrodes for Stable Supercapacitors with High Areal Capacitance in Nature Materials!
Congratulations to Anna Y. Kozmenkova, Elmar Y. Kataev, Alina I. Belova, Matteo Amati, Luca Gregoratti, Juan Velasco-Velez, Axel Knop-Gericke, Boris Senkovskiy, Denis V. Vyalikh, Daniil M. Itkis, Yang Shao-Horn, and Lada V. Yashina on the publication of Tuning Surface Chemistry of TiC Electrodes for Lithium-air Batteries in Chemistry of Materials!
Congratulations to Binghong (Alex) Han, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Vasiliki Tileli, Andrew D. Gamalski, Eric A. Stach, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Nanoscale Structural Oscillations in Perovskite Oxides Induced by Oxygen Evolution in Nature Materials!
Congratulations to David G. Kwabi, Thomas P. Batcho, Shuting Feng, Livia Giordano, Carl V. Thompson, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of The Effect of Water on Discharge Product Growth and Chemistry in Li-O2 Batteries in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics!
Congratulations to Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Magali Gauthier, Thomas P. Batcho, Chanez Symister, Yang Shao-Horn, Julio M. D'Arcy, and Paula T. Hammond on the publication of Evaluation and Stability of PEDOT Polymer Electrodes for Li-O2 Batteries in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Welcome Aya Elsayed, Axel Forssberg, Roland Jung, Jiaoyang Li, Robert Morasch, Thaneer Narayanan, Paula Pascual, and Yang Yu to our EEL family!!
Congratulations to Prof. Yang Shao-Horn for being selected as a 2016 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher!!
Summer 2016
Welcome Dr. Katherine Phillips to our EEL big family!!
Congratulations to Jeffrey B. Chou, Xin-Hao Li, Yu Wang, David P. Fenning, Asmaa Elfaer, Jaime Viegas, Mustapha Jouiad, Yang Shao-Horn, and Sang-Gook Kim on the publication of Surface plasmon assisted hot electron collection in wafer-scale metallic-semiconductor photonic crystals in Optics Express!
Congratulations to Abhimanyu Rana, Abhijeet Patra, Meenakshi Annamalai, Amar Srivastava, Siddhartha Ghosh, Kelsey Stoerzinger, Yueh-Lin Lee, Saurav Prakash, Reuben Yeo Jueyuan, Partho S. Goohpattader, Nalam Satyanarayana, Kalon Gopinadhan, Michal M. Dykas, Kingshuk Poddar, Surajit Saha, Tarapada Sarkar, Brijesh Kumar, Charanjit S. Bhatia, Livia Giordano, Yang Shao-Horn and T. Venkatesan on the publication of Correlation of nanoscale behaviour of forces and macroscale surface wettability in Nanoscale!
Congratulations to Dongkyu Lee, Yueh-Lin Lee, Xiao Renshaw Wang, Dane Morgan, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Enhancement of oxygen surface exchange on epitaxial La0.6Sr0.6Co0.2Fe0.8O3-δ thin films using advanced heterostructured oxide interface engineering in MRS Communications!
Congratulations to Tim C. Geary, Dongkyu Lee, Yang Shao-Horn, and Stuart B. Adler on the publication of Nonlinear Impedance Analysis of La0.4Sr0.6Co0.2Fe0.8O3-δ Thin Film Oxygen Electrodes in Journal of The Electrochemical Society!
Congratulations to Sayed Youssef Sayed, Koffi P. C. Yao, David G. Kwabi, Thomas P. Batcho, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Shuting Feng, Carl V. Thompsonc and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Revealing Instability and Irreversibility in Nonaqueous Sodium-O2 Battery Chemistry in Chemical Communications!
Koffi P. C. Yao, James T. Frith, Sayed Youssef Sayed, Fanny Bardé, John R. Owen, Yang Shao-Horn, and Nuria Garcia-Araez published their manuscript On the Utilization of Cobalt Bis(Terpyridine) Metal Complex as Soluble Redox Mediator In Li-O2 Batteries, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congratulations!
Welcome Yu Katayama, Manuel Kolb, Prof. Vittorio Bellani, Kristian Knudsen, and Graham Leverick to our EEL big family!!
Congratulations to Zhenxing Feng as he starts as an assistant professor at Oregon State University!!
Congratulations to Kelsey for being awarded the Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship from PNNL (2016 - 2019)!!
Congratulations to Jonathan, Shuting, Pinar, Reshma, and Karthik for passing the Ph.D. quals!!
Alex, David, Joe, Kelsey, Pierre and Wesley on their commencement day! They all look great!
Spring 2016
Congratulations to Wei Xie, Yueh-Lin Lee, Yang Shao-Horn, and Dane Morgan on the publication of Oxygen Point Defect Chemistrry in Ruddlesden-Popper Oxides (La1–xSrx)2MO4±δ(M = Co, Ni, Cu) in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Congratulations to Alex Binghong on being selected as the recipient of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. Read more on DMSE website!
Congratulation to Dr. Pierre Claver Yao and Dr. David Kwabi for their successful thesis defenses!
Congratulations to Zhenxing Feng, Wesley T. Hong, Dillon D. Fong, Yueh-Lin Lee, Yizhak Yacoby, Dane Morgan, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Catalytic Activity and Stability of Oxides: The Role of Near-Surface Atomic Structures and Compositions in Accounts of Chemical Research!
Congratulations to Seung Woo Lee on being selected as the recipient of the 2016 KSEA Young Investigator Grant!
Congratulation to Dr. Wesley Hong and Dr. Kelsey Stoerzinger for their successful thesis defenses!
Congratulations to Don-Hyung Ha, Binghong Han, Marcel Risch, Livia Giordano, Koffi P.C. Yao, Pinar Karayaylali, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Activity and Stability of Cobalt Phosphides for Hydrogen Evolution Upon Water Splitting in Nano Energy!
Congratulation to Dr. Alex Binghong Han for his successful thesis defense! Bravo Alex!
Congratulation to Dr. Joseph Elias for his successful thesis defense! Good job Joe!
Winter 2016
Congratulations to Ivana Hasaa, Xinwei Doub, Daniel Buchholzb, Yang Shao-Hornd, Jusef Hassouna, Stefano Passerinib, and Bruno Scrosati on the publication of A sodium-ion battery exploiting layered oxide cathode, graphite anode and glyme-based electrolyte in Journal of Power Sources!
Congratulations to David G. Kwabi, Michał Tułodziecki, Nir Pour, Daniil M. Itkis, Carl V. Thompson, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Controlling Solution-Mediated Reaction Mechanisms of Oxygen Reduction Using Potential and Solvent for Aprotic Lithium–Oxygen Batteries in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Congratulations to Wesley T. Hong, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Ethan J. Crumlin, Eva Mutoro, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Ho Nyung Lee, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Near-Ambient Pressure XPS of High-Temperature Surface Chemistry in Sr2Co2O5 Thin Films in Topics in Catalysis!
Congratulations to Joseph S. Elias, Nongnuch Artrith, Matthieu Bugnet, Livia Giordano, Gianluigi A. Botton, Alexie M. Kolpak, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Elucidating the Nature of the Active Phase in Copper/Ceria Catalysts for CO Oxidation in ACS Catalysis!
Congratulations to Alexis Grimaud, Wesley Hong, Yang Shao-Horn, and Jean-Marie Tarascon on the publication of their commentary Anionic redox processes for electrochemical devices in Nature Materials!
Congratulations to David G. Kwabi, Dr. Vyacheslav S. Bryantsev, Thomas P. Batcho, Dr. Daniil M. Itkis, Prof. Carl V. Thompson and Prof. Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Experimental and Computational Analysis of the Solvent-Dependent O2/Li+-O2- Redox Couple: Standard Potentials, Coupling Strength, and Implications for Lithium–Oxygen Batteries in Angewandte Chemie International Editon!
Fall 2015
Congratulations to John Christopher Bachman, Sokseiha Muy, Alexis Grimaud, Hao-Hsun Chang, Nir Pour, Simon F. Lux, Odysseas Paschos, Filippo Maglia, Saskia Lupart, Peter Lamp, Livia Giordano, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Inorganic Solid-State Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries: Mechanisms and Properties Governing Ion Conduction in Chemical Reviews!
Congratulations to Yueh-Lin Lee, Dongkyu Lee, Xiao Renshaw Wang, Ho Nyung Lee, Dane Morgan, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Kinetics of Oxygen Surface Exchange on Epitaxial Ruddlesden-Popper Phases and Correlations to First-Principles Descriptors in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Congratulations to Ronald A. Quinlan, Yi-Chun Lu, David Kwabi, Yang Shao-Horn, and Azzam N. Mansour on the publication of XPS Investigation of the Electrolyte Induced Stabilization of LiCoO2 and "AlPO4"-Coated LiCoO2 Composite Electrodes in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society!
Congratulations to Livia Giordano, Binghong (Alex) Han, Marcel Risch, Wesley Hong, Reshma Rao, Kelsey Stoerzinger, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of pH dependence of OER activity of oxides: Current and future perspectives in Catalysis Today!
Congratulations to Prof. Christina Roth, Prof. Yang Shao-Horn, Dr. Deborah Myers and Prof. Junji Inukai on the publication of Batteries and Fuel Cells: Leading the Way to a Cleaner and Brighter Future in ChemElectroChem!
Congratulations to Magali Gauthier, Thomas J. Carney, Alexis Grimaud, Livia Giordano, Nir Pour, Hao-Hsun Chang, David P Fenning, Simon F. Lux, Odysseas Paschos, Christoph Bauer, Filippo Maglia, Saskia Lupart, Peter Lamp, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of The Electrode-Electrolyte Interface in Li-ion Batteries: Current Understanding and New Insights in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Congratulations to Jae-Il Jung, Marcel Risch, Seungkyu Park, Min Gyu Kim, Gyutae Nam, Hu-Young Jeong, Yang Shao-Horn and Jaephil Cho on the publication of Optimizing nanoparticle perovskite for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis in Energy & Environmental Science!
Congratulations to Ifan Stephens, Joseph Elias, and Yang Shao-Horn on the Science Perspective The importance of being together!
A very warm welcome to graduate students Patrick and Karthik as well as visiting student Ryoichi!
Summer 2015
Congratulations to Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Marcel Risch, Binghong Han, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Recent Insights into Manganese Oxides in Catalyzing Oxygen Reduction Kinetics in ACS Catalysis!
Congratulations to Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Wesley T. Hong, Ethan J. Crumlin, Hendrik Bluhm, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Insights into Electrochemical Reactions from Ambient Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy in Accounts of Chemical Research!
Congratulations to X. Lin, R. Kavian, Y. Lu, Q. Hu, Y. Shao-Horn and M. W. Grinstaff on the publication of Thermally-responsive, nonflammable phosphonium ionic liquid electrolytes for lithium metal batteries: operating at 100 degrees celsius in Chemical Science!
Congratulations to Binghong Han, Marcel Risch, Yueh-Lin Lee, Chen Ling, Hongfei Jia and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Activity and Stability Trends of Perovskite Oxides for Oxygen Evolution Catalysis at Neutral pH, in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics!
Marcel has been awarded the Hans-Jürgen Engell Prize 2016 of the International Socitety of Electrochemistry (ISE). Congratulations!
Congratulations to Forrest Gittleson, Koffi P.C. Yao, David G Kwabi, Sayed Youssef Sayed, Won-Hee Ryu, Yang Shao-Horn andAndré D. Taylor on the publication of Raman Spectroscopy in Lithium-Oxygen Battery Systems in ChemElectroChem!
Congratulations to Marcel Risch, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Tom Z. Regier, Derek Peak, Sayed Youssef Sayed, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Reversibility of Ferri-Ferrocyanide Redox During Operando Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
Congratulations to Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Wesley T. Hong, Gisele Azimi, Livia Giordano, Yueh-Lin Lee, Ethan J. Crumlin, Michael D. Biegalski, Hendrik Bluhm, Kripa K Varanasi, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Reactivity of Perovskites with Water: Role of Hydroxylation in Wetting and Implications for Oxygen Electrocatalysis in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
Congratulations to Yueh-Lin Lee, Milind J. Gadre, Yang Shao-Horn and Dane Morgan on the publication of Ab initio GGA+U Study of Oxygen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis on the (001) Surfaces of Lanthanum Transition Metal Perovskites LaBO3 (B=Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and Ni) in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics!
Congratulations to Ehsan A. Ahmad, Vasiliki Tileli, Denis Kramer, Giuseppe Mallia, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Yang Shao-Horn, Anthony R. Kucernak, and Nicholas M. Harrison on the publication of Optimizing Oxygen Reduction Catalyst Morphologies from First Principles in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
We also warmly welcome the MIT Mechanical Engineering Peabody Visiting Associate Professor Ifan Stephens to the group! His seminar will be in November.
A very warm welcome to postdocs Michal, Kwan and visiting student Musbadeen and UROP Sam!
Congratulations to Nagore Ortiz-Vitoriano, Thomas P. Batcho, David G. Kwabi, Binghong Han, Nir Pour, Koffi Pierre Claver Yao, Carl V. Thompson, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Rate-Dependent Nucleation and Growth of NaO2 in Na–O2 Batteries in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
EEL alumni Ethan Crumlin was awarded the 3rd SSI Young Scientist Award 2015. Congratulations!
Spring 2015
Congratulations to Koffi Pierre C. Yao, Marcel Risch, Sayed Y. Sayed, Yueh-Lin Lee, Jonathon R. Harding, Alexis Grimaud, Nir Pour, Zhichuan J. Xu, Jigang Zhou, Azzam N. Mansour, Fanny Bardé and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Solid-state activation of Li2O2 oxidation kinetics and implications for Li-O2 batteries in Energy & Environmental Science!
The article Record Activity and Stability of Dealloyed Bimetallic Catalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells is among the TOP 3 most read articles in Energy & Environmental Science in 2015. Congratulations to Binghong (Alex) Han, Chris Carlton, Jin Suntivich, Zhichuan (Jason) Xu, and Yang Shao-Horn!
Nagore's poster won the 1st prize at Beyond Lithium Ion VIII at Oak Ridge National Lab. Congratulations!
The collaboration between EEL and BMW on improving Li-ion battery technology has been highlighted in a news article and video by the MIT Office of Corporate Relations. Congratulations!
EEL member Renshaw and his wife Huan Xu celebrated their wedding ceremony. Click here for their wedding picture. We wish them all the best!
Congratulations to John C. Bachman, Reza Kavian, Daniel J. Graham, Dong Young Kim, Suguru Noda, Daniel G. Nocera, Yang Shao-Horn, and Seung Woo Lee on the publication of Electrochemical polymerization of pyrene derivatives on functionalized carbon nanotubes for pseudocapacitive electrodes in Nature Communications!
Jonathon successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis. Congratulations Dr. Harding! Click here for some impressions of the day.
A very warm welcome to visiting professor Kaoru Dokko!
Winter 2015
The review article Toward the rational design of non-precious transition metal oxides for oxygen electrocatalysis by Wesley Hong, Marcel Risch, Kelsey A Stoerzinger, Alexis Grimaud, Jin Suntivich, and Yang Shao-Horn has been highlighted as a HOT article in the EES Blog. Congratulations!
A very warm welcome to visiting professor Jinwoo Lee!
Congratulations to Anastasia Permyakova, Binghong Han, Jens Oluf Jensen, Niels J. Bjerrum, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Pt—Si Bifunctional Surfaces for CO and Methanol Electro-Oxidation in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
Congratulations to Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Weiming Lü, Changjian Li, Ariando, Thirumalai Venkatesan and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Highly Active Epitaxial La(1-x)SrxMnO3 Surfaces for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Role of Charge Transfer in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Congratulations to Binghong Han, Danna Qian, Marcel Risch, Hailong Chen, Miaofang Chi, Ying Shirley Meng, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of The Role of LiCoO2 Surface Terminations in Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Kinetics in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Congratulations to Jonathon R. Harding, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Paula T. Hammond, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Instability of Polyethylene Oxide upon Oxidation in Lithium-Air Batteries in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
We added recommendations for processing and reporting measurements of oxygen electrocatalysis on the Resources page. Please have a look!
Congratulations to Wesley Hong, Marcel Risch, Kelsey A Stoerzinger, Alexis Grimaud, Jin Suntivich, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Toward the rational design of non-precious transition metal oxides for oxygen electrocatalysis in Energy & Environmental Science!
Congratulations to Kevin J. May, David P. Fenning, Tian Ming, Wesley T. Hong, Dongkyu Lee, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Michael D. Biegalski, Alexie M. Kolpak, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Thickness-Dependent Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting on Ultrathin LaFeO3 Films Grown on Nb:SrTiO3, in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Congratulations to Nir Pour, David Gator Kwabi, Thomas J. Carney, Robert M Darling, Mike L. Perry, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Influence of Edge- and Basal-plane Sites on the Vanadium Redox Kinetics for Flow Batteries, in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
Congratulations to Binghong (Alex) Han, Chris Carlton, Jin Suntivich, Zhichuan (Jason) Xu, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Oxygen Reduction Activity and Stability Trends of Bimetallic Pt0.5M0.5 Nanoparticle in Acid in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
Warm welcome to our new graduate student Shuting.
Magali Gauthier has won two awards at 'Concours Energia' organized by the Quebec Association for the Control of Energy (AQME): category 'Technological Innovation' and the special award of the jury. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Woo Seok Choi, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Ho Nyung Lee, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Role of Strain and Conductivity in Oxygen Electrocatalysis on LaCoO3 Thin Films in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Warm welcome to our new SMART Postdoctoral Associate Daniele.
Congratulations to Wesley T. Hong, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Brian Moritz, Thomas P. Devereaux, Wanli Yang, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Probing LaMO3 Metal and Oxygen Partial Density of States Using X-ray Emission, Absorption, and Photoelectron Spectroscopy in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
Fall 2014
Prof. Yang Shao-Horn was selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Jonathon R. Harding, Yang Shao-Horn and Paula T. Hammond on the publication of Understanding the chemical stability of polymers for lithium-air batteries in Chemistry of Materials!
Joseph Spanjaard Elias, Marcel Risch, Livia Giordano, Azzam N. Mansour, and Yang Shao-Horn published their manuscript Structure, Bonding and Catalytic Activity of Monodisperse, Transition-Metal Substituted CeO2 Nanoparticles, in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dongkyu Lee, Yueh-Lin Lee, Wesley Hong, Mike Biegalski, Dane Morgan and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Oxygen Surface Exchange Kinetics and Stability of (La,Sr)2CoO4±δ/La1-xSrxMO3-δ (M = Co and Fe) Hetero-interfaces at Intermediate Temperatures in Journal of Materials Chemistry A!
Magali Gauthier has been awarded the Prize "Co-Tutelle Thesis France-Quebec" 2014. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Alex Binghong Han, Christopher E. Carlton, Anusorn Kongkanand, Ratandeep S. Kukreja, Brian R.C. Theobald, Lin Gan, Rachel O’Malley, Peter Strasser, Frederick T. Wagner, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Record Activity and Stability of Dealloyed Bimetallic Catalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells in Energy & Environmental Science!
Congratulations to Md Nasim Hyder, Reza Kavian, Zakia Sultana, Kittipong Saetia, Po-Yen Chen, Seung Woo Lee, Yang Shao-Horn, and Paula T. Hammond on the publication of Vacuum-Assisted Layer-by-Layer Nanocomposites for Self-Standing 3D Mesoporous Electrodes in Chemistry of Materials!
Summer 2014
Nagore Ortiz-Vitoriano has been awarded the extraordinary doctorate prize by the University of the Basque Country for 2011/2012. Congratulations!
The manuscript M13 Virus-Directed Synthesis of Nanostructured Metal Oxides for Lithium–Oxygen Batteries by Dahyun Oh, Jifa Qi, Binghong Han, Geran Zhang, Thomas J. Carney, Jacqueline Ohmura, Yong Zhang, Yang Shao-Horn, and Angela M. Belcher was published in Nano Letters. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Wesley T. Hong, Ethan J. Crumlin, Hendrik Bluhm, Michael D. Biegalski, and Yang Shao-Horn for their publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Water Reactivity on the LaCoO3 (001) Surface: An Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study.
The manuscript Chemical Instability of Dimethyl Sulfoxide in Lithium–Air Batteries by David G. Kwabi, Thomas P. Batcho, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Nagore Ortiz-Vitoriano, Paula Hammond, Carl V. Thompson, and Yang Shao-Horn was published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Congratulations!
Warm welcome to our new graduate students Reshma and Pinar, postdoc Renshaw and visiting student Julius.
- Reshma Rao is from Mumbai, India. She loves to play table tennis and has played at the national level in India and the UK where she obtained her undergraduate degree. She also enjoys listening to music in her leisure time.
- Pinar Karayaylali is originally from Adana, Turkey. As an undergraduate researcher at Bilkent University, she has done research on modeling AFM operation in liquids. She played chess for 10 years and represented her country at worldwide chess tournaments. She also enjoys watching animes and reading mystery novels.
- Xiao (Renshaw) Wang as born and grow up in Qingdao, China. He spent four years in Singapore for his PhD study and two years in the Netherlands for a postdoc position on a Rubicon research grant. In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball.
- Julius Scholz is a visiting PhD student from the University of Goettingen in Germany. He has been working on different systems for water oxidation since his Master thesis. When he is not in the lab, he loves spending most of his time outdoors discovering the area running, hiking or biking.
Congratulations to Betar M. Gallant, Seung Woo Lee, Tadashi Kawaguchi, Paula T. Hammond, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Electrochemical Performance of Thin-Film Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Electrodes in Nonaqueous Cells in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society!
Betar Gallant will join the MIT Mechanical Engineering faculty in 2016. Betar started her academic career as an undergraduate researcher at EEL and continued there to obtain a PhD (2013). She is currently a Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow at CalTech. Congratulations, Betar!
Alexis Grimaud has obtained a CNRS position in theoretical chemistry and will join the Lab of Jean-Marie Tarascon at Collège de France. Congratulations!
The work of Zhenxing Feng and Wesley Hong has been highlighted by APS Science Highlights. Congratulations!
Dongkyu (DK) successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis. Congratulations Dr. Lee!
Warm welcome to our new visiting students Niels Bendtsen Halck, Roberta Verrelli, Ivana Hasa and our new undergraduate summer students Raivo Andrian, Julia O'Donnell, Alyssa Johnson and Joey Valle!
- Roberta Verrelli is a student in Chemical Science at "Sapienza" University of Rome. My research is focused on the development of alternative electrode materials for higher performance lithium ion batteries. Her passion is to travel all over Europe.
- Ivana Hasa is a student in Chemical Science at "Sapienza" University of Rome. She is involved in the field of the electrochemical energy conversion since her master studies. She played volleyball in a federal team for 12 years sharing victories and defeats. She also likes to cook good Italian food, especially cakes and pies.
- Alyssa Johnson is a rising senior at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, studying Mechanical Engineering. She is interested in electrochemical energy storage and conversion because she believes there needs to be a shift to cleaner energy sources. In her free time, she enjoys longboarding, snowboarding, and sketching.
- Julia O'Donnell is originally from Iowa
City, IA, and will be returning to Wellesley College to
complete her physics degree this fall. She hopes her research
in nanostructuring hematite for photoelectrochemistry will
contribute to the eventual design of a low-cost device, which
brings clean energy to the developing world. When not in the
lab, she enjoys horseback riding, bicycling, and playing the
harp.
- Raivo Andrian is a sophomore in course 10
who enjoys running, eating dessert, and of course working with
EEL. Her favorite kind of food is Indian food.
- Niels Bendtsen Halck came to EEL from the University of Denmark to support the group with theoretical calculations (DFT) in its goal to design and understand catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction. When he is not frustrated with non-converging calculations he likes to spend his time outdoors with his wife and dog.
Congratulations to Dongkyu Lee, Yueh-Lin Lee, Alexis Grimaud Wesley T. Hong, Michael D. Biegalski, Dane Morgan, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Enhanced Oxygen Surface Exchange Kinetics and Stability on Epitaxial La0.8Sr0.2CoO3-δ Thin Films by La0.8Sr0.2MnO3-δ Decoration in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
Spring 2014
Warm welcome to our new visiting students Carole Martin-Hamka , Philipp Jäker! and postdoc Magali Gauthier!
- Carole Martin-Hamka came to MIT from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland where she pursues a masters degree in Engineering Physics. In her free time, she enjoys windsurfing and tennis.
- Philipp Jäker did his undergraduate studies in chemistry and biochemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, where he is currently getting his masters degree in chemistry focusing on physical and materials chemistry. His life's philosophy contains various influences: "Never give up, "Fight for your ideas, "Stay relaxed," and "Be nice to everybody."
The 2014 DMSE General Written Exam results have been released and EEL member Sokseiha Muy has passed. Congratulations Seiha!
The manuscript Materials challenges in rechargeable lithium-air batteries by David G. Kwabi, Nagore Ortiz-Vitoriano, Stefan A. Freunberger, Yuhui Chen, Nobuyuki Imanishi, Peter G. Bruce, and Yang Shao-Horn was published in the MRS Bulletin. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dongkyu Lee, Yueh-Lin Lee, Alexis Grimaud, Wesley T. Hong, Michael D. Biegalski, Dane Morgan, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Strontium Influence on the Oxygen Electrocatalysis of La2-xSrxNiO4±δ (0.0 ≤ xSr ≤ 1.0) Thin Films in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A!
The manuscript Soft-Template-Carbonization
Route to Highly Textured Mesoporous Carbon-TiO2 Inverse
Opals for Efficient Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical
Applications by Li Na Quan, Yoon Hee Jang, Kelsey
A. Stoerzinger, Kevin J. May, Yu Jin Jang, Saji Thomas
Kochuveedu, Yang Shao-Horn, and Dong Ha Kim was
published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Koffi Pierre Yao on winning the Best Poster Award at the 2014 ANL APS Users Meeting!
Congratulations to Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Liang Qiao, Michael D. Biegalski, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Orientation-Dependent Oxygen Evolution Activities of Rutile IrO2 and RuO2 in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
EEL will be hosting Professor Andre Taylor from Yale as an MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT for the 2014-2015 academic year. You can learn more about Andre's research at his website.
The manuscript Li-Anode Protective Layers for Li Rechargeable Batteries via Layer-by-Layer Approaches by Sun Hwa Lee, Jonathon R. Harding, David S. Liu, Julio M. D'Arcy, Yang Shao-Horn and Paula T. Hammond was published in Chemistry of Materials. Congratulations!
MIT Energy Initiative announces 2014 seed grant awards.Congratulations to Marcel Risch, Kelsey Stoerzinger, Shingo Maruyama, Wesley Hong, Ichiro Takeuchi, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of La0.8Sr0.2MnO3-δ Decorated with Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-δ: A Bi-functional Surface for Oxygen Electrocatalysis with Enhanced Stability and Activity in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Warm welcome to our new postdocs Sayed Nagy and Hao Hsun Chang!
Congratulations to Zhenxing Feng, Yizhak Yacoby, Milind J. Gadre, Yueh-Lin Lee, Wesley T. Hong, Hua Zhou, Michael D. Biegalski, Hans M. Christen, Stuart B. Adler, Dane Morgan, and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Anomalous Interface and Surface Strontium Segregation in (La1-ySry)2 CoO4±δ/La1-xSrxCoO3-δ Heterostructured Thin Films in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
The manuscript Surface Strontium Segregation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes Proved by In Situ Depth-Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy by Yuki Orikasa, Ethan J. Crumlin, Shinnosuke Sako, Koji Amezawa, Tomoya Uruga, Michael D. Biegalski, Hans M. Christen, Yoshiharu Uchimoto, and
Winter 2014
Congratulations to Dongkyu Lee, Yueh-Lin Lee, Alexis Grimaud, Wesley T. Hong, Michael D. Biegalski, Dane Morgan and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Strontium Influence on the Oxygen Electrocatalysis of La2-xSrxNiO4±δ (0.0 ≤ xSr ≤ 1.0) Thin Films in Energy & Environmental Science.The paper titled The influence of transition metal oxides on the kinetics of Li2O2 oxidation for Li-O2 batteries: high activity of chromium oxides by Koffi Pierre Yao, Yi-Chun Lu, Chibueze Amanchukwu, David Kwabi, Marcel Risch, Jigang Zhou, Alexis Grimaud, Paula Hammond, Fanny Barde and Yang Shao-Horn has been highlighted as a HOT article in the PCCP Blog. Congratulations!
A warm welcome to administrative assistant Abby Reynolds Welcome to EEL.
Congratulations to Jin Suntivich, Wesley Hong, Yueh-Lin Lee, James Rondinelli, Wanli Yang, John B. Goodenough, Bogdan Dabrowski and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Estimating Hybridization of Transition Metal and Oxygen States in Perovskites from O K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
Congratulations to Zhenxing Feng, Yizhak Yacoby, Wesley Hong, Hua Zhou, Mike Biegalski, Hans Christen and Yang Shao-Horn on the publication of Revealing the Atomic Structure and Strontium Distribution in Nanometer-Thick La0.8Sr0.2CoO3-δ Grown on (001)-Oriented SrTiO3 in Energy & Environmental Science.
Fall 2013
The manuscript Rate-Dependent Morphology of Li2O2 Growth in Li-O2 Batteries by Koffi P. C. Yao, Yi-Chun Lu, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, David G. Kwabi, Marcel Risch, Jigang Zhou, Alexis Grimaud, Paula T. Hammond, Fanny Bardée and and Yang Shao Horn was published online in Journal Physical Letters. Congratulations!Congratulations to Alexis Grimaud, Chris Carlton, Marcel Risch, Wesley Hong, Kevin May and Yang Shao-Horn on the Journal of Physical Chemistry C publication Oxygen Evolution Activity and Stability of Ba6Mn5O16, Sr4Mn2CoO9 and Sr6Co5O15: The Influence of Transition Metals Coordination
The manuscript The Influence of Hydrocarbon and CO2 on the Reversibility of Li-O2 Chemistry Using In Situ Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy by Yi-Chun Lu, Ethan Crumlin, Thomas Carney, Loic Baggetto, Gabriel Veith, Nancy Dudney, Zhi Liu and Yang Shao-Horn was published online in Journal Physical Chemistry C. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dahyun Oh, Yi-Chun Lu, Yang Shao-Horn and Angela Belcher on the Nature Communications publication Biologically enhanced cathode design for improved capacity and cycle life for lithium-oxygen batteries. This manuscript has been highlighted in the MIT news.
A warm welcome to graduate students Marcella Lusardi, Sokseiha Muy, & postdoc David Fenning. Welcome to EEL.
The manuscript Oxygen Permeation from Oxygen Ion-Conducting Membranes Coated with Porous Metals or Mixed Ionic and Electronic Conducting Oxides by Susumu Imashuku, Lei Wang, Khaled Mezghani, Mohamed A. Habib and Yang Shao-Horn was published in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Alexis Grimaud, Kevin May, Christopher Carlton, Yueh-Lin Lee, Marcel Risch, Wesley Hong, Jigang Zhou and Yang Shao-Horn on the Nature Communications publication Double Perovskite as a Family of Highly Active Catalysts For Oxygen Evolution in Alkaline Solution. This manuscript was featured on the MIT web page on 18 Sept 2013 and has also been highlighted in the MIT news.
A warm welcome to visiting professor Livia Giordano, postdoc Nagore Ortiz, administrative assistant Shayne Fernandes and graduate student Jarrod Milshtein. Welcome to EEL.
Summer 2013
Congratulations! The article Synthesis and Activities of Rutile IrO2 and RuO2 Nanoparticles for Oxygen Evolution in Acid and Alkaline Solutions has been selected for the virtual issue Solar Fuels. Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation in the Journal of Physical Chemistry CThe manuscript Synthesis of Highly Stable Sub-8 nm TiO2 Nanoparticles and Their Multilayer Electrodes of TiO2/MWNT for Electrochemical Applications by Md Nasim Hyder, Betar Gallant, Nisarg J. Shah, Yang Shao-Horn and Paula Hammond was published in Nano Letters. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dongkyu Lee, Alexis Grimaud, Ethan Crumlin, Khaled Mezghani, Mohamed A. Habib, Zhenxing Feng, Wesley Hong, Michael Biegalski, Hans Christen, and Yang Shao-Horn on the Journal of Physical Chemistry C publication Strain Influence on the Oxygen Electrocatalysis of the (100)-Oriented Epitaxial La2NiO4+δ Thin Films at Elevated Temperatures.
David Fenning will join the Nanoengineering Department at University of California, San Diego after his postdoc at EEL. Congratulations!
The manuscript Enhancing oxygen permeation of electronically short-circuited oxygen-ion conductors by decorating with mixed ionic-electronic conducting oxides by Lei Wang, Susumu Imashuku, Alexis Grimaud, Dongkyu Lee, Khaled Mezghani, Mohamed A. Habib and Yang Shao-Horn was published in the ECS Electrochemistry Letters. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Tian Ming, Jin Suntivich, Kevin J. May, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Dong Ha Kim, and Yang Shao-Horn on the Journal of Physical Chemistry C publication Visible Light Photo-Oxidation in Au Nanoparticle Sensitized SrTiO3:Nb Photoanode.
The paper Origin of Enhanced Chemical Capacitance in La0.8Sr0.2CoO3-δ Thin Film Electrodes by Cortney R. Kreller, T.J. McDonald, Stuart B. Adler, Ethan Crumlin, Eva Mutoro, Sung Jin Ahn, G.J. la O', Yang Shao-Horn, Michael D. Biegalski, Hans M. Christen, Richard R. Chater and John A. Kilner was published in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. Congratulations!
Congratulations! Wesley Hong, Milind Gadre, Yueh-Lin Lee, Michael Biegalski, Hans Christen, Dane Morgan and Yang Shao-Horn on their Journal of Physical Chemistry Letter Tuning Spin State in LaCoO3 Thin Films for Enhanced High Temperature Oxygen Electrocatalysis.
Former EEL postdoc Shuo Chen joined the Physics Department at University of Houston as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations Prof. Chen!
Congratulations to Ethan Crumlin, Eva Mutoro, Wesley Hong, Michael Biegalski, Hans Christen, Zhi Liu, Hendrik Bluhm, and Yang Shao-Horn on the Journal of Physical Chemistry C publication In Situ Ambient-Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Cobalt Perovskite Surfaces under Cathodic Polarization at High Temperatures.
The paper Site-Selective Deposition of Twinned Pt Nanoparticles on TiSi2 Nanonets by Atomic Layer Deposition and Their Oxygen Reduction Activities by Jin Xie, Xiaogang Yang, Binghong Han, Yang Shao-Horn and Dunwei Wang was published in ACS Nano. Congratulations!
Spring 2013
Congratulations to Tom and Dongwook for passing their PhD Qualifying exams in DMSE.The manuscript Influence of Li2O2 morphology on oxygen reduction and evolution kinetics in Li-O2 batteries by Betar Gallant, David G. Kwabi, Robert R. Mitchell, Jigang Zhou, Carl V. Thompson and Yang Shao-Horn was published in Energy & Environmental Science. Congratulations!
The work of Betar and Robert on the oxidation of lithium peroxide in Li-air batteries has been highlighted in the MIT News. This work was published in Nano Letters recently.
Congratulations to Jin Suntivich, Zhichuan Xu, Christopher E. Carlton, Junhyung Kim, Binghong Han, Seung Woo Lee, Nicéphore Bonnet, Nicola Marzari, Lawrence F. Allard, Hubert A. Gasteiger, Kimberly Hamad-Schifferl and Yang Shao-Horn on their Journal of the American Chemical Society publication Surface Composition Tuning of Au-Pt Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Enhanced Carbon Monoxide and Methanol Electro-oxidation.
Betar successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis. Congratulations Dr. Gallant!
Former EEL members Youngmin Lee and Seung Woo Lee will marry this summer. We wish them all the best!
Betar Gallant placed 4th in the 2013 De Florez Awards (Graduate Division) which acknowledge outstanding ingenuity and creative judgment in the area of Mechanical Engineering. Well deserved!
Congratulations! Kevin May was awarded a prestigious NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship D.
Congratulations to Zhenxing Feng, Ethan Crumlin, Wesley Hong, Dongkyu Lee, Eva Mutoro, Michael Biegalski, Hua Zhou, Hendrik Bluhm, Hans Christen and Yang Shao-Horn on the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters publication In Situ Studies of Temperature-Dependent Surface Structure and Chemistry of Single-Crystalline (001)-Oriented La0.8Sr0.2CoO3-δ Perovskite Thin Films.
The paper In situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Observations of Electrochemical Oxidation of Li2O2 by Li Zhong, Robert R. Mitchell, Yang Liu, Betar Gallant, Carl V. Thompson, Jian Yu Huang, Scott Mao and Yang Shao-Horn was published in Nano Letters. Congratulations!
Thomas Carney has been selected to receive a 2013 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship sponsored by the Department of Defense. Congratulations!
The paper titled Oxygen Electrocatalysis on (001)-Oriented Manganese Perovskite Films: Mn Valency and Charge Transfer at the Nanoscale by Kelsey Stoerzinger, Marcel Risch, Jin Suntivich, Weiming Lü, Jigang Zhou, Mike Biegalski, Hans Christen, Ariando, Thirumalai Venkatesan and Yang Shao-Horn has been highlighted as a HOT article in the EES Blog.
EEL members will be presenting research at this year's Spring MRS meeting:
| April 2nd | 8:30 am | #XX1.01 | Yang Shao-Horn |
"Understanding Perovskite Surfaces for High-temperature Oxygen Electrocatalysis Using In situ Techniques" | Moscone West, Level 3, Room 3016 |
| April 2nd | 9:00 am | #XX1.02 | Zhenxing Feng | "In Situ Atomic-scale Studies of Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathode Materials" | Moscone West, Level 3, Room 3016 |
| April 4th | 11:15 am | #G9.09 | Yang Shao-Horn |
"Understanding Perovskite Oxides for Oxygen Electrocatalysis" | Moscone West, Level 2, Room 2005 |
| April 4th | 11:45 am | #G9.10 | Wesley Hong | "Probing the Electronic Structure of Perovskite Oxides for Oxygen Electrocatalysis" | Moscone West, Level 2, Room 2005 |
| April 4th | 2:30 pm | #G10.04 | Kelsey Stoerzinger | "Interaction of Well-Defined LaCoO3 Surfaces with Water" | Moscone West, Level 2, Room 2005 |
Congratulations to Koffi P.C. Yao, David G. Kwabi, Roland A. Quinlan, Azzam N. Mansour, Alexis Grimaud, Yueh-Lin Lee, Yi-Chun Lu and Yang Shao-Horn on the Journal of Electrochemical Society publication Thermal Stability of Li2O2 and Li2O for Li-Air Batteries: In Situ XRD and XPS Studies!
Congratulations! Kelsey Stoerzinger, Marcel Risch, Jin Suntivich, Weiming Lü, Jigang Zhou, Mike Biegalski, Hans Christen, Ariando, Thirumalai Venkatesan and Yang Shao-Horn have published a paper titled Oxygen Electrocatalysis on (001)-Oriented Manganese Perovskite Films: Mn Valency and Charge Transfer at the Nanoscale in Energy and Environmental Science.
Betar Gallant was awarded the prestigious Kavli Nanoscience Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Nate Lewis and Julia Greer. Congratulations!
The paper Mechanisms of Morphological Evolution of Li2O2 Particles during Electrochemical Growth by Robert R. Mitchell, Betar Gallant, Yang Shao-Horn and Carl V. Thompson was published in the Journal of Chemical Physics Letters.
A paper by Yi-Chun Lu, Betar M. Gallant, David G. Kwabi, Jonathon R. Harding, Robert R. Mitchell, M. Stanley Whittingham and Yang Shao-Horn entitled Lithium-Oxygen Batteries: Bridging Mechanistic Understanding and Battery Performance,(Energy and Environmental Science 6 (3) 750 - 768 January 2013) was noted by EES as one of the most read articles in the past thirty days.
Congratulations to Marcel Risch, Alexis Grimaud, Kevin May, Kelsey Stoerzinger, Tina Chen, Azzam Mansour and Yang Shao-Horn on the Journal of Physical Chemistry C publication Structural Changes of Cobalt-Based Perovskites upon Water Oxidation Investigated by EXAFS.
The International Battery Association is having a Special Symposium to Honor Michael Thackeray at their March meeting in Barcelona.
Winter 2013
Alex Han, Wesley Hong, and Kelsey Stoerzinger passed their DMSE Qualifying exams. Nice work, guys!Donovan N. Leonard, Amit Kumar, Stephen Jesse, Michael D. Biegalski, Hans M. Christen, Eva Mutoro, Ethan J. Crumlin, Yang Shao-Horn, Sergei V. Kalinin and Albina Y. Borisevich have published Nanoscale Probing of Voltage Activated Oxygen Reduction/Evolution Reactions in Nanopatterned (LaxSr1-x)CoO3-δ Cathodes in Advanced Energy Materials.
EEL research has been featured in LBNL's Advanced Light Source Science Highlights in the article "Two Studies Reveal Details of Lithium-Battery Function".
Congratulations to Professor Shao-Horn, who will be receiving the Research Award of 2013 from the International Battery Association on March 11th in Barcelona, Spain. This award is granted based on her outstanding contributions made to the science and technology of new secondary batteries and fuel cells and the related battery materials research field, which have been recognized internationally.
Ronald A. Quinlan, Yi-Chun Lu, Yang Shao-Horn, and Azzam N. Mansour have published XPS Studies of Surface Chemistry Changes of LiNi0.5Mn0.5O2 Electrodes during High-Voltage Cycling in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society in February 2013.
Jin Suntivich, Erin E. Perry, Hubert A. Gasteiger, and Yang Shao-Horn have published The Influence of the Cation on the Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Activities of Oxide Surfaces in Alkaline Electrolyte in Electrocatalysis on-line in December 2012.
Please join us in congratulating Yang Shao-Horn on her promotion to Full Professor!
Welcome to visiting scholar Dong Ha Kim and visiting student Milind Gadre.
Yi-Chun Lu, Betar M Gallant, David Gator Kwabi, Jonathon Robert Harding, Robert R Mitchell, M Stanley Whittingham and Yang Shao-Horn have published Lithium-Oxygen Batteries: Bridging Mechanistic Understanding and Battery Performance in January's Energy and Environmental Science.
Brian Patrick, Hyung Chul Ham, Yang Shao-Horn, Lawrence F. Allard, Gyeong S Hwang and Paulo J. Ferreira have published Atomic Structure and Composition of “Pt3Co” Nanocatalysts in Fuel Cells: An Aberration-Corrected STEM HAADF Study in Chemistry of Materials.
Congratulations to Sung Yeol Kim, Jinkee Hong, Reza Kavian, Seung Woo Lee, Md Nasim Hyder, Yang Shao-Horn and Paula T. Hammond for publishing Rapid fabrication of thick spray-layer-by-layer carbon nanotube electrodes for high power and energy devices in Energy and Environmental Science.
The on-line version of the Elettra Highlights 2011-2012 is now available for download in .pdf version.
Yi-Chun Lu has a paper published in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters: Probing the reaction kinetics of the charge reactions of nonaqueous Li–O2 batteries.
Fall 2012
Congratulations to Tian Ming and wife Ying Long on the birth of their son Feynman Yu Ming, born in 9 December 2012!
EEL members will be presenting research at this year's MRS meeting:
| Nov 26th | 9:00 am | Talk I1.02 | Yueh-Lin Lee | "Assessing First Principles Based Descriptors for Predicting Oxygen Reduction and Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activities of Transition Metal Perovskites" | Room 310 (Hynes) |
| Nov 26th | 11:00 am | Talk C2.02 | Kelsey Stoerzinger | "Thickness Dependence of Oxygen Reduction Activity on Epitaxial LaMnO3 Thin Films" | Room 304 (Hynes) |
| Nov 26th | 8:00 pm | Poster F4.09 | Lei Wang | "Enhancing Oxygen Permeation Performance of Electronically Short-circuited Oxygen-ion Conductor by Decorating with Mixed Ionic-electronic Conducting Oxide Thin Films" | Hall D (Hynes) |
| Nov 27th | 11:00 am | Talk C6.03 | Kevin May | "Surface Structural Changes of Perovskite Oxides under Oxygen Evolution Conditions" | Room 304 (Hynes) |
| Nov 27th | 11:30 am | Talk C6.05 | Alexis Grimaud | "Towards the Understanding of Perovskites Activity for Oxygen Evolution Reaction Through the Design of Accurate Active Sites" | Room 304 (Hynes) |
| Nov 27th | 11:30 am | Talk I6.04/F6.04 | Dongkyu Lee | "A Kinetic Study of Oxygen Reduction Reaction on a-axis Normal Epitaxial La2NiO4+δ Thin Films for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells" | Room 310 (Hynes) |
| Nov 27th | 8:00 pm | Poster C8.14 | Marcel Risch | "The Electrochemically Active Surface of Perovskites Studied by X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy" | Hall D (Hynes) |
| Nov 27th | 8:00 pm | Poster I9.05 | Dongkyu Lee | "A Study of Oxygen Reduction Reaction on the Interface of (La,Sr)MnO3-δ/(La,Sr)CoO3-δ Thin Films for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells " | Hall D (Hynes) |
| Nov 28th | 11:30 am | Talk B7.13 | Chris Carlton | "The Relationship between Natural Nanostructure and Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Tellurium Based Thermoelectric Materials" | Room 302 (Hynes) |
| Nov 28th | 2:30 pm | Talk F12.04 | Wesley Hong | "High Temperature Oxygen Electrocatalysis on (La,Sr)CoO3-δ Epitaxial Thin Films" | Room 309 (Hynes) |
| Nov 28th | 8:00 pm | Poster B9.27 | Chris Carlton | "Ubiquitous Natural Nanostructure and High-stability off-stoichiometric Nanoparticles in n-Type Thermoelectric Bi2Te2.7Se0.3" | Hall D (Hynes) |
| Nov 28th | 8:00 pm | Poster B9.28 | Chris Carlton | "Natural Nanostructures and Superlattice Ordering in Ag1-xSb1+xTe2-x" | Hall D (Hynes) |
| Nov 29th | 11:15 am | Talk C12.09 | Binghong Han | "Roles of Transition Metal Chemistry in Pt-alloy Nanoparticle Electrocatalyst Stability " | Room 304 (Hynes) |
Group members Alexis Grimaud, David Kwabi and Kelsey Stoerzinger are featured in a photo essay about Mechanical Engineering on MIT News.
The work of Ethan Crumlin and Yi-Chun Lu has been featured on the MIT News page.
EEL members will be presenting research at this years ECS meeting:
| Ethan Crumlin | "In Situ Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Epitaxial Strontium Substituted Lanthanum Cobalt Oxides Near Operating Conditions Under Applied Potentials" |
| Betar Gallant | "Lithium-Oxygen Batteries - Bridging Mechanistic Understanding and Battery Performance" |
| Jonathon Harding | "Investigations of Li-O2 Batteries Using Polyethylene Oxide in Structured Three-Phase Electrodes" |
| Yi-Chun Lu | "Mechanistic Investigation of Nonaqueous Lithium-Oxygen Electrochemistry" |
| Marcel Risch | "X-ray Absorption Measurements on Perovskite Electrodes for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction" |
Seung Woo Lee will be starting at Georgia Tech as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering in January. Congratulations!
Professor Shao-Horn will be speaking at the Infinite Innovation Symposium during the 9:00-10:20 session on Wednesday September 19th in Kresge Auditorium. This inaugural symposium will highlight the breadth and depth of MIT’s innovation enterprise, with remarks and presentations by faculty, staff, and students across the Institute’s schools. Their work showcases the MIT community working collaboratively to bring new ideas into reality to change the world.
Welcome to new students Tom Carney, Chris Bachman and Dongwook Lee. Also we have new arrivals Visiting Scholar Birger Horstmann and new Postdoc Nir Pour joining us. Welcome to EEL!
Congratulations to Marcel Risch for winning the Carl Ramsauer Award of the Physical Society of Berlin for his dissertation "Structure-function relations in water-oxidizing cobalt oxides investigated by X-ray absorption spectroscopy" under Holger Dau.
Summer 2012
Jonathon Harding's PCCP paper Evidence of catalyzed oxidation of Li2O2 for rechargeable Li–air battery applications was in the top 10 most accessed in July!
Prof. Shao-Horn is now the Nature Asia Materials Associate Editor on Energy Conversion and Storage.
Ethan Crumlin has published an article Oxygen Electrocatalysis on Epitaxial La0.6Sr0.4CoO3-δ Perovskite Thin Films for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society 159 (7) F219-F225 July 2012
EEL is happy to host a Department of Mechanical Engineering
Special Seminar
"Determination of the Atomic Structure of Thin films and Quantum
Dots With Sub-Angstrom Resolution"
Prof. Yizhak Yacoby
Racah Institute of Physics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Monday, July 23, 2:30pm, Room 3-133
We are pleased to annouce the return of Reza Kavian, now a postdoc at EEL, and excited to meet his wife Soror! Welcome back, Reza.
Congratulations to Wesley Hong, Kelsey Stoerzinger and Alex Han for passing their PhD Qualifying exams in DMSE.
Zhichuan Xu will be joining School of Materials Science & Engineering at Nanyang Technological University as an assistant professor. Congratulations!
Nice work, Jonathon Harding, on publishing Evidence of catalyzed oxidation of Li2O2 for rechargeable Li–air battery applications in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
Congratulations to graduates Ethan Crumlin, Yi-Chun Lu and Jin Suntivich!
Three EEL papers are selected as high-impact battery research in Energy & Environmental Science journal. The papers are:
- The discharge rate capability of rechargeable Li–O2 batteries Yi-Chun Lu et al ( DOI: 10.1039/C1EE01500A),
- Nanostructured carbon-based electrodes: bridging the gap between thin-film lithium-ion batteries and electrochemical capacitors Seung Woo Lee et al (DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00642D) and
- All-carbon-nanofiber electrodes for high-energy rechargeable Li–O2 batteries Robert R. Mitchell, Betar M. Gallant et al (DOI: 10.1039/C1EE01496J).
Spring 2012
Jin Suntivich and Yi-Chun Lu successfully defended their Ph.D. theses! Congratulations.
Eva Mutoro is the recipient of the Ewald-Wicke-prize for young researchers from the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry; she will to give a lecture at their annual meeting in May, which will in part include EEL work. Well done Eva!
Ethan Crumlin has been offered the Advanced Light Source Postdoctoral Fellowship position at LBNL. Nicely done, Ethan.
Betar M Gallant, Seung Woo Lee, Hye Ryung BYON have an article "Role of Oxygen Functional Groups in Carbon Nanotube/Graphene Freestanding Electrodes for High Performance Lithium Batteries" accepted by Advanced Functional Materials. Nice work!
Ethan successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis. Congratulations Dr. Crumlin!
Jin Suntivich will be joining Cornell as tenure-track assistant professor in Materials Science and Engineering in 2013. Congratulations, Jin.
Welcome to new postdoc Yueh-Lin Lee and visiting student Anastasia Permyakova.
Take a look at the recent MIT News article "Hybrid copper-gold nanoparticles convert CO2 " on Zhichuan's work!
Congratulations to Hubert Gasteiger on receiving the 2012 Grove Medal. From Fuel Cell Advances:
The Grove Medal, which is awarded in honour of Sir William Grove, the inventor of the fuel cell, is awarded in 2012 to Professor Dr. Hubert Gasteiger, Chair of Technical Electrochemistry at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. During an international career, both as industrial and university scientist, Professor Gasteiger has made remarkable contributions to the understanding of fuel cell related electrochemistry and to the vitally important task of translating application requirements into fundamental parameters. His interests include electro-catalysts for low temperature fuel cells and electrolysers as well as materials degradation mechanisms.
Compositional dependence of the stability of AuCu alloy nanoparticles by Zhichuan Xu, Erica Lai, Yang Shao-Horn, and Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli has just been accepted to ChemComm. Congratulations to Zhichuan!
Jin Suntivich is the recipient of the Harvard Environmental Postdoctoral Fellowship. More information to follow. Nice work Jin!
Winter 2012
Lopez, N. , D.J. Graham, R. McGuire, Jr., G.E. Alliger, Y. Shao-Horn, C.C. Cummins and D.G. Nocera's Science paper has been published: Reversible Reduction of Oxygen to Peroxide Facilitated by Molecular Recognition, Science 335 (6067) 450 - 453 January 2012
Our science highlight is in the December issue of BNL’s eNews. You are welcome to subscribe to this monthly publication, which reports on NSLS and NSLS-II.
We wish a warm welcome to new postdocs Marcel Risch, Alexis Grimaud, and Tian Ming! Also Yuvraj Birdja finished his stay. Eva Mutoro has left us to take a staff scientist position at BASF in Germany. Congratulations, Eva!
MIT has listed Jens Nørskov’s group’s "CatApp" mobile app on a web site where they’re recommending apps as well as featuring it in an IAP seminar on useful apps. It is a mobile web app for looking up calculated reaction and activation energies for elementary coupling reactions occurring on metal surfaces. You can find it and many other useful apps listed under "Science & Engineering" at http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=174869&sid=1481866 It can also be found at http://suncat.slac.stanford.edu/catapp/. Learn more about it in the paper by Hummelshøj et al in Angewandte Chemie CatApp: A Web Application for Surface Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis.
Fall 2011
EEL appears in MIT news 11/02/2011 in the article Highly efficient oxygen catalyst found based on the Science paper. Congrats Jin and Kevin!
Science Express has published an article by Jin Suntivich, Kevin J. May et al A Perovskite Oxide Optimized for Oxygen Evolution Catalysis from Molecular Orbital Principles
A new article has been published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics: Hye Ryung Byon, Jin Suntivich, Ethan J. Crumlin and Yang Shao-Horn “Fe-N-modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes for oxygen reduction reaction in acid”.
Congratulations to Jin Suntivich for being chosen as a 2011 MRS Fall Meeting Graduate Student Award Finalist!
A new article by Wenchao Sheng, Seung Woo Lee, et al Synthesis, Activity, and Durability of Pt Nanoparticles Supported on Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Oxygen Reduction has been published in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society.
Welcome new grad students Wesley Hong, Alex Han and Kelsey Stoerzinger! Also welcome to visiting student from Mark Koper’s group Yuvraj Birdja and visiting postdoc Kei Hasegawa.
Summer 2011
Junhyung Kim, Seung Woo Lee, Christopher Carlton, and Yang Shao-Horn Oxygen Reduction Activity of PtxNi1-x Alloy Nanoparticles in Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes has been published in Electrochemical and Solid State Letters.
A new article by Seung-Woo Lee, Junhyung Kim et al, Synthesis and Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity of Atomic and Nanoparticle Gold on Thiol-Functionalized Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes has been published in Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters.
A review article has been published in the International Journal of Energy research this July: MA Habib, HM Badr, SF Ahmed, R Ben-Mansour, K Mezghani, S Imashuku, GJ la O’, Y Shao-Horn, N Mancini, A Mitsos, P Kirchen and A Ghoneim, entitled A review of recent developments in carbon capture using oxy-fuel combustion in conventional and ion transport membrane systems
Congratulations to Robert Mitchell and Betar Gallant for being featured in MIT news on July 25th, 2011
A new article by Hye Ryung Byon et al, Graphene-based Non-Noble-Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acid, is now posted on the Chemistry of Materials website
A new article by Betar Gallant, Robert Mitchell et al, All-Carbon-Nanofiber Electrodes for High-Energy Rechargeable Li-O2 Batteries has been published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science
Jennifer Sell joins EEL as administrative assistant July 2011. Welcome!
Yang Shao-Horn has been appointed to the Gail E. Kendall Chair in Mechanical Engineering. Congratulations! This article in MIT news contains a brief biography of Gail E. Kendall.
Work by Jin Suntivich et al on Design Principles for Oxygen Reduction Activity on Perovskite Oxide Catalysts for Fuel Cells and Metal-Air Batteries has been featured on Nature Research Highlights.
Kevin May and Jin Suntivich are to present posters at the upcoming Challenges in Renewable Energy conference on “Specific activity of perovskite LaNiO3 catalyst for O2 evolution” and “Design Principles for Oxygen Reduction Activity on Perovskite Oxide Catalysts in Alkaline Environment” respectively.
Pierre Yao and Robert Mitchell present posters at the 4th Symposium on Energy Storage: Beyond Li Ion on The discharge rate capability of rechargeable Li-O2 batteries and All-Carbon-Nanofiber Electrodes for High-Energy Rechargeable Li-O2 Batteries respectively.
Work by Jin Suntivich et al on Design Principles for Oxygen Reduction Activity on Perovskite Oxide Catalysts for Fuel Cells and Metal-Air Batteries has been featured on MIT News. Congratulations!
Spring 2011
Prof. Hui Yang joins EEL as a visiting researcher. Welcome!
A new article by Yi-Chun Lu, David Kwabi, Pierre Yao et al, The discharge rate capability of rechargeable Li-O2 batteries has been accepted for publication in the journal Energy and Environmental Science.
Eva Mutoro has been selected as one of the most promising German young scientists to participate in the “Building Bridges - top level research in Germany - top researchers for Germany” event organized by the German Scholars’ Organization e.V. This four-day event will take place between June 22nd-25th in Berlin and include a career workshop, a conference on strategies for innovative top level research, and an evening reception at Bellevue Palace including a personal meeting with Christian Wulff, the German President. Congratulations!
A new article by Junhyung Kim et al, Pt-Covered Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes for Oxygen Reduction in Fuel Cell Applications has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
A new article by Jin Suntivich et al, Design Principles for Oxygen Reduction Activity on Perovskite Oxide Catalysts for Fuel Cells and Metal-Air Batteries has been accepted for publication in Nature Chemistry
New graduate student Joseph Elias joins EEL. Welcome!
Yang Shao-Horn has been named to the Advisory Board of the journal Energy and Environmental Science. Congratulations!
Yi-Chun Lu wins the E-MRS best graduate student award. Congratulations!
Betar Gallant and Yi-Chun Lu present talks at the ECS Spring Meeting on “High-Capacity Nanostructured Carbon Electrodes for Lithium-Air Batteries” and “Oxygen reduction reaction for Li-air batteries” respectively.
Yaqing Huang joins EEL as a visiting researcher. Welcome!
Reza Kavian joins EEL as a visiting student. Welcome!
Eva Mutoro will be giving an invited talk at the upcoming ASC meeting on the topic “Enhancing Electrode Kinetics of SOFC Cathode Materials by Structural or Compositional Surface Modification.”
Yang Shao-Horn will be giving the May 2nd APS plenary talk on electrochemical energy conversion and storage.
Eva Mutoro and Yi-Chun Lu will be giving invited talks at the upcoming European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) conference.
Betar Gallant has been named Martin Fellow for the year 2011-2012. Congratulations!
A new article by Eva Mutoro et al, Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Activity on Surface-Decorated Perovskite Thin Films for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells has been accepted for publication in the August issue of Energy and Environmental Science.
A new article by Yi-chun Lu et al, Method Development to Evaluate the Oxygen Reduction Activity of High-Surface-Area Catalysts for Li-Air Batteries has been accepted for publication in the March 21st issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology.
Winter 2010
Professor George Marnellos joins EEL from Univeristy of Macedonia, Greece as a Visiting Researcher. Welcome!
A recent article by Seung Woo Lee et al, Nanostructured carbon-based electrodes: bridging the gap between thin-film lithium-ion batteries and electrochemical capacitors has been featured on the Energy and Environmental Science blog.
A new article by Yi-chun Lu et al has been accepted for publication in Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters Method Development to Evaluate the Oxygen Reduction Activity of High-Surface-Area Catalysts for Li-Air Batteries
A new article by Naoaki Yabuuchi et al has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Electrochemical Society The Influence of Heat-Treatment Temperature on the Cation Distribution of LiNi0.5Mn0.5O2 and Its Rate Capability in Lithium Rechargeable Batteries
A new article by Seung Woo Lee et al has been accepted for publication in Energy and Environmental Science, Nanostructured carbon-based electrodes: bridging the gap between thin-film lithium-ion batteries and electrochemical capacitors
EEL’s work was featured in the autumn issue of MIT’s Energy Initiative Newsletter A Promising Lightweight Battery for Electric Cars: New Catalysts Push Up Lagging Efficiency
Ethan, Eva, Dongkyu, Susumu, Chris C, Zhichuan, Yi-Chun, Jonathon, and Youngmin attended the fall meeting of Material Research Society at Boston.
Lei Wang joins EEL as a Postdoctoral Associate. Welcome!
Fall 2010
EEL’s work is featured in C&EN Science & Technology News (November 22nd, 2010) “ Rechargeable Metal-Air Batteries ” MIT News Team takes first atomic-scale compositional images of fuel-cell nanoparticles
“ High-power multi-walled carbon nanotube(MWNT)-based electrode
technology ” (Lee et al. Nature Nanotechnology 2010) has been
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A new article of M A Habib et al has been accepted in International Journal of Energy Research, “ A Review of Recent Developments in Carbon Capture Utilizing Oxy-fuel Combustion in Conventional and Ion Transport Membrane Systems”
Yi-Chun, Jin, Seung Woo and Hye Ryung presented at the 218th Electrochemical Society meeting at Las Vegas. Yi-Chun is the 2010 winner of the Battery Division Student Research Award.
Jonathon and Yi-Chun attended the conference at ONRL, “ Energy Storage Beyond Lithium Ion: Materials Perspectives ”
Andreas joins EEL as a Postdoctoral Associate. Welcome!
A new article of Ethan Crumlin et al is accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, “ Oxygen Reduction Kinetics Enhancement on a Hetero-Structured Oxide Surface for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells ”
A new article of Hye Ryung Byon et al is accepted in Carbon “Thin Films of Carbon Nanotubes and Chemically Reduced Graphenes for Electrochemical Micro-Capacitors”
New graduate students, Pierre, David, Chris, and Kevin, join EEL. Welcome!
Summer 2010
A new article by Wenchao Sheng et al has been accepted in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society “Hydrogen Oxidation and Evolution Reaction Kinetics on Platinum: Acid vs Alkaline Elecrolytes”
Hye Ryung Byon gets an offer from RIKEN in Japan. Congratulations!
Youngmin joins EEL as a Postdoctoral Associate. Welcome!
Sungjin Ahn gets an offer from Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in South Korea and will leave EEL in August. Congratulations!
A new article of Naoaki Yabuuchi et al is accepted in Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters “The Influence of Surface Chemistry on the Rate Capability of LiNi0.5Mn0.5O2 for Lithium Rechargeable Batteries”
A new article by Zhichuan Xu, et al has been accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, “Direct Colloidal Route for Pt-Covered AuPt Bimetallic Nanoparticles”
Yi-Chun’s paper decorated the cover of the Journal of the Amerian Chemical Society. Congratulations!
Robert McGuire Jr’s paper is highlighted at RSC Publishing Blogs Home.
Ethan Crumlin won the Best Poster Award on the 2010 Gordon Research Conference. Congratulations!
A new article by Robert McGuire Jr. et al is accepted in Chemical Science, “Oxygen Reduction Reactivity of Cobalt(II) Hangman Porphyrins”
EEL’s work in MIT News: Thin films show surprising reactivity June 24th 2010
EEL’s work in MIT news (June 21st, 2010) and MIT media relations (June 21st,2010) “Enhancing the power of batteries” MIT News June 18th, 2010 Enhancing the power of batteries
MIT News October 2nd, 2008 Team takes first atomic-scale compositional images of fuel-cell nanoparticles
A new article of Yi-Chun Lu et al is accepted in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society “Electrocatalytic Activity Studies of Select Metal Surfaces and Implications in Li-Air Batteries”
A new article of Seung Woo Leeet al is accepted in Nano, Carbon Nanotube/Manganese Oxide Ultrathin Film Electrodes for Electrochemical Capacitors“
EEL’s work is featured in MIT Technology Review (June 9th, 2010) Record efficiency for Li-air batteries”
Spring 2010
Seung Woo and Wenchao get Ph.D. degrees! Betar gets an M.S. degree! Big Congratulations!
A new article of Jin Suntivich et al is accepted in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society “Electrocatalytic Measurement Methodology of Oxide Catalysts Using a Thin-Film Rotating Disk Electrode”
A new article of Yi-Chun Lu et alis accepted in the Journal of the Amerian Chemical Society “ Platinum-Gold Nanoparticles: A Highly Active Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Rechargeable Lithium-Air Batteries ”
A new article of Gerardo Jose la O’ and Sung-Jin Ahn et al is accepted in Angewandte Chemie International Edition “Catalytic Activity Enhancement for Oxygen Reduction on Epitaxial Perovskite Thin Films for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells”
A new article of Seung Woo Leeet al has been accepted in Nature Nanotechnology“ High-Power Lithium Batteries from Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Electrodes ”
Junhyung has a baby boy, Christopher. Congratulations!
Yi-Chun is the 2010 winner of the Battery Division Student Research Award in the Electrochemical Society. Her award will be presented a the Fall meeting of the society in Las Vegas at the Battery Division Luncheon. Congratulations!
Li-air battery work is presented in The New York Times. Will Lithium-Air Battery Rescue Electric Car Drivers From ‘Range Anxiety’?
EEL’s work is in the MIT news (April 2nd, 2010) and MIT media relations (April 2nd, 2010) Staff Materials Scientist A step toward lighter batteries
A new article by Yi-Chun Lu et al is accepted in Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters “ The Influence of Catalysts on Discharge and Charge Voltages of Rechargeable Li-Oxygen Batteries”
A new article by Seung Woo Lee et al is accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters Roles of Surface Steps of Pt Nanoparticles on the Electrochemical Activity of Oxygen Reduction
A new article by S. Chen et all is accepted in Journal of the Electrochemical SocietyPlatinum-Alloy Cathode Catalyst Degradation in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Nanometer-Scale Compositional and Morphological Changes
A new article of M. Asoro et al is accepted in Nanotechnology Coalescence and sintering of Pt nanoparticles: in situ observation by aberration-corrected HAADF STEM
