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Congratulations to Xiaowen

Congratulations to Xiaowen, Dr. Mona Shirpour’s first graduate student at UK, who has just successfully passed his PhD dissertation defense.

Welcome our previous group member, Dr. Yunchao Li, from Intecells, LLC!

Dr. Yunchao Li was invited to give a presentation on his work, Novel Sustainable Tire-Derived Carbon Anodes for Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Batteries, at the ECS/MRS joint seminar today. View Photo1, Photo2

Congratulations to our group members who have been elected to MRS and ECS University of Kentucky Student Chapters (MRS-UK chapter and ECS-UK chapter) as new officers!

Jiazhi Hu: President of MRS-UK chapter Shuang Gao: President of ECS-UK chapter Dingying Dang: Treasure of ECS-UK chapter

Congratulations to Xiaowen Zhan, the winner of the 2018 Outstanding MSE Graduate Student Award!

Mr. Xiaowen Zhan joined the University of Kentucky in 2014 and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Materials Engineering. His research focuses mainly on defect structure, transport properties and electrochemical interfaces of advanced solid-state materials for electrochemical energy storage devices such as Li/Na-ion batteries. Since 2014, Xiaowen has published four articles in peer-reviewed journals and given three oral presentations at professional conferences.

Congratulations to Shuang Gao!

He has successfully passed his qualifying exam.