Department News

Our group attended the Super Collider 2018 organized by Kentucky NSF EPSCoR at CAER

Our group attended the Super Collider 2018 organized by Kentucky NSF EPSCoR at CAER. Yikai Wang, Xiaowen Zhan, and Shuang Gao presented their posters.

New communication published

The Advanced Energy Materials communication "Mechanical Property Evolution of Silicon Composite Electrodes Studied by Environmental Nanoindentation", by Yikai Wang; Qinglin Zhang, Ph.D; Dawei Li; Jiazhi Hu; Jiagang Xu, Ph.D; Dingying Dang; Xingcheng Xiao, Ph.D; Yang-Tse Cheng, Ph.D, has now been published online. View

Dr. Y.T. Cheng has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

https://uknow.uky.edu/professional-news/uk-professor-named-fellow-national-academy-inventors 

Congratulations to Yikai Wang and Jiazhi Hu!

Congratulations to Yikai Wang and Jiazhi Hu! They successfully passed their qualifying exams.

Welcome our new group member: Andrew Meyer

Jie Pan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis

Jie Pan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Understanding Electrical Conduction in Lithium Ion Batteries through Multi-Scale Modeling”. Congratulations to Dr. Pan!

Qinglin Zhang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis

Qinglin Zhang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Improving the Capacity, Durability and Stability of Lithium-ion Batteries by Interphase Engineering”. Congratulations to Dr. Zhang!

Prof. Y.T. Cheng introduces Kentucky NSF EPSCoR’s work in Electrochemical Energy Storage on Youtube: Link

Welcome our new group members: Yikai Wang, Long Zhang, Jiazhi Hu

Group dinner at Panda Cuisine

Group dinner at Panda Cuisine with our former member Dr. Juchuan Li! Dr. Juchuan Li, now working at Oak Ridge National Lab, gave a ECS Kentucky Student Chapter seminar on “Solid Electrolyte: Towards High-Voltage Lithium-Ion Batteries” in UK (Flyer). Happy holidays!