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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.

A farewell group dinner for Yan

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Our group have finished the Cleveland tour attending the SYMPOSIUM ON ENERGY STORAGE BEYOND LITHIUM ION XI (July 24-26)

Xiaowen won the 1st place of the poster award! View Photo1, Photo2

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.