PH.D. students to start in 2018 Fall and visiting student to start in 2018 are encouraged to contact Dr. Chen directly.
Dec 14, 2018, Xuetian at the commencement.
Dec 11, 2018, Xuetian passed her Ph.D defense! Congrats, Dr. Ma! And thanks to the committee members!
2018 Nov, Xuetian’s JACS paper now is online: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.8b11029
2018 Nov, Zhantao and Dr. Chen attended the MRS meeting in Boston. Zhantao presented a poster on solid electrolyte. Dr. Chen gave an invited talk on Na cathode and a talk on solid electrolyte.
2018 Nov, Xuetian’s paper was accepted for publication in JACS! Congrats, Xuetian! And thanks to our collaborators!
2018 Nov, Lufeng, Yifan, and Dr. Chen went to Standford, for our first beam time trip at SSRL. Thanks for the help, Chris, Donata and Mike!
2018 Sept, Shan went to ORNL to perform neutron scattering experiments. It’s our first granted neutron beam time!
2018 July, Yifan’s first beam time trip to NSLS II, together with Xuetian, Lufeng and Zhantao.
2018 July, Yifan Ma jointed the group at the Ph.D student starting in 2019 fall!
2018 June, Dr. Chen gave an invited seminar at Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
2018 March, Shan, Lufeng and Dr. Chen attended the 254th ACS meeting in New Orleans, LA. Shan and Lufeng presented their works on solid electrolyte and Na cathode, respectively.
2018 Jan. Lufeng and Dr. Chen’s review paper (in collaboration with UMD) on sodium ion batteries was accepted for publication in Advanced Energy Materials. Congrats, Lufeng!
2018 Jan. Dr. Chen gave an invited talk at the Nature Conference on Materials Electrochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications, in Shenzhen, China
2017 Dec. Lufeng’s paper on high energy cathode for sodium ion batteries was accepted for publication in Journal of Power Sources, Congrats!
2017 Nov. Dr. Chen gave a talk at the MRS fall meeting in Boston.
2017 Oct. Dr. Chen gave a talk at the fall meeting of the Electrochemical Society in National Harbor, Washington DC
2017 Sept., Changhao successfully finished his summer research and returned to his home institute. He will pursue a Ph.D. degree there after graduation. We wish you the best luck in your future career, Changhao! Stefan Whittaker-Lee joined the group as a Master’s student. Stefan gradated from Brown University in 2017 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Welcome, Stefan!!
2017 August, Dr. Chen gave an invited presentation at the biannual national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington DC.
2017 July 27, Dr. Chen gave an invited presentation at the 3rd National Conference of Energy Storage Technologies in Zhejiang, China
2017 June, we were awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to work on the cathode materials of sodium ion batteries.
2017 June, Changhao Chen, junior student from the department of Materials Science and Engineering of Tsinghua University joined us for a two-month summer research program. Welcome, Changhao!
2017 March, Xuetian’s paper “NaAlTi3O8, a novel anode material for sodium ion battery” is published in Scientific Reports. Congrats!
2017 Feb. Jacqueline won a second place award in the Peach State STEM Innovators Conference for her research work done in 2016 summer in our lab under the support of SURE program. Congrats, Jacqueline!
2017 Feb. Our lab 220 is undergoing a renovation! It is supposed to be done in mid-Feb.
2017 Jan. 09 Haibo Rong joined us as a visiting phd student. Haibo is from South China University of Technology and he is in his second year of phd. Welcome, Haibo!
2016 Oct 15. Hai successfully completed his work at GT as a visiting ph.d student and is heading back to China to defend his thesis. Hai will be much missed as a hard working colleague who is always willing to help and always brings pleasures to the lab! We wish him the best of luck with his new career after ph.d.!
2016 Aug 31. Bo Nan finished his internship with us and headed back to SCUST to continue his undergraduate study. Best of luck, Bo!
2016 Aug 21. Will Disser and Yangyang Li joined us as undergraduate researchers. Both of them will be working on the battery recycling project. Jacqueline will continue to work with us as an undergraduate research as well, after she finished the SURE summer program. She will continue her work on anodes for sodium batteries. Welcome Will, Yangyang and Jacqueline.
2016 Aug 12. Zhantao Liu joined our group as a ph.d student. Zhantao has BS degree in MS&E from Beihang University and MS degree from HKUST. Welcome, Zhantao!
2016 June 19-24. Xuetian and Shan are attending the 18th International Meeting on Lithium Batteries (IMLB 2016) and presenting their work on sodium ion battery anode and solid state electrolyte, respectively. IMLB is a prestigious international conference that is held every two years around the world. This year the meeting is held in Chicago.
2016 June. Jon is awarded Georgia Tech Presidential Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for 2016 fall for his research on mechanochemical synthesis. Congratulations, Jon!!
2016 June Awad Latifa is visiting our group for 3 weeks to finish her teaching plan, supported by CREATE program of GT.
2016 May. Jacqueline Baidoo joined us as a summer student supported by the SURE program of GT. Welcome!
2016 May, we were awarded a research grant by the National Science Foundation to work on the recycling of spent Li-ion batteries!
2016 April. D8 advance is finally repaired after a two month down time. We’ll be rocking with a variety of in situ experiments in the summer!
2016 Jan. Lufeng Yang joined us as a visiting student. Welcome Lufeng!
2016 Jan. Zoe Holderness and Jake Thiemann joined us as undergraduate research assistants, Welcome Zoe and Jake!
2015 Dec. Malte successfully defended his thesis and received his Master’s degree. Congratulations Malte! And thanks for your excellent work at GT!
2015 Dec. Aijie received Georgia Tech Presidential Undergraduate Research Award for 2016 Spring. Congratulations, Aijie!
2015 Nov. Xuetian and Shan passed their ph.d qualifier exams with excellent performances!! They passed all three qualifiers at once and with top grades. Congratulations, Xuetian and Shan!
2015 Nov. Hai Wang joined us as a visiting student. Welcome Hai!
2015 Aug. Jon Payne joined as as undergraduate research assistant. Welcome, Jon!
2015 Aug. Xuetian, Shan, Malte and Dr. Chen went to APS for synchrotron experiments.
2015 June. Xuetian and Shan presented the work on novel titanates as anode material for Na-ion batteries at the 8th Beyond Lithium Ion international conference hosted at Oak Ridge National Lab.
2015 March. Chen Lab officially moved from the temporary labs to Love building 220 and 221.
2014 Nov. Mbraun glove box was installed!
2014 Oct. Bruker D8 diffractometer was installed!
2014 May. We were awarded a research grant by the National Science Foundation to work on cathode materials for sodium ion batteries, in collaboration with Dr. Ting Zhu at GT.