News

Congratulations to our former group member, Dr. Jiagang Xu

Congratulations to our former group member, Dr. Jiagang Xu, for his new position at Amperex Technology Limited (ATL) as a Senior Engineer II!

Exciting news from our former group member, Dr. Rutooj Deshpande!

Exciting news from our former group member, Dr. Rutooj Deshpande! Rutooj recently becomes the CEO of the startup, GoVidyouth Mobility, after working at Ford Motor Company for 6 years. He is also a Deputy General Manager for Sterling & Wilson. Here comes the very first entrepreneur from our group!

Dingying, Ming, and Andrew attended the 236th ECS Meeting (October 13-17, 2019) at Atlanta

Dingying, Ming, and Andrew attended the 236th ECS Meeting (October 13-17, 2019) at Atlanta, GA. Hurrah for not only their broadened horizons, but their attendance representing the ECS-UK chapter (with Udari from our Department of Chemistry), reunion with our former group member, Dr. Jiazhi Hu at General Motors, and connection with the 2019 Nobel Prize winner, Dr. M. Stanley Whittingham, in Chemistry!

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019

It is a breathtaking moment that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 was awarded jointly to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries!" (source)

Congratulations to Ming and Andrew

Congratulations to Ming and Andrew, who won the respective 2nd and 3rd place of the Poster Presentation Award of the Kentucky Materials Networking Day! The Kentucky Materials Networking Day is held by the local MRS student chapter and funded by the Materials Research Society Foundation.

Group lunch at Panda Cuisine to send Yikai and Jiazhi off and welcome Ryan

Welcome our new group member: Ryan Hill

Celebration for Dr. Jiazhi Hu at J2C

Congratulations to Jiazhi who successfully passed her PhD exam!

We now have a new brand new AFM assembled inside a glovebox!

We had substantial training provided by Dr. Igor Titushkin with graduate students from Dr. Doo Young Kim's lab.