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Feb 19, 2020
Improving the Efficiency of Vanadium Flow Batteries Using Cellulose
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu is using cellulose from wood to store renewable energy in batteries.
Feb 13, 2020
Zhu Awarded $1M DOE Grant to Work on Printing Batteries
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli (Julie) Zhu was awarded a $1M grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office to work on Enabling Advanced Electrode Architecture through Printing Technique.
Nov 15, 2019
Zhu Featured on Cover of Advanced Materials
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu lab’s research on “Solid‐State Batteries: Sulfide‐Based Solid‐State Electrolytes: Synthesis, Stability, and Potential for All‐Solid‐State Batteries” is featured on the inside front cover of Advanced Materials.
Nov 15, 2019
Zhu Featured on Cover of Advanced Functional Materials
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu lab’s research on “Aqueous Flow Batteries: Mass Transfer and Reaction Kinetic Enhanced Electrode for High‐Performance Aqueous Flow Batteries” featured on the inside front cover of Advanced Functional Materials.
Nov 15, 2019
Zhu Awarded NSF EAGER Grant in Collaboration with Penn State University
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu awarded an NSF Eager grant to work on “fully water-soluble bioelectronics with skin-conforming galactomannan” in collaboration with Penn State University.
Nov 15, 2019
Rogers Corporation Grant to Explore Hybrid Solid State Electrolyte
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu awarded $180K from the Rogers Corporation for “Advanced Electrolytes to Enable High Energy High Power Li-ion Batteries”.
Jul 18, 2019
NSF Award to Improve Domestic Energy Security with Solid-State Batteries
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu and ChE Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway were awarded a $480K NSF grant for “Engineering the Metal Sulfide Interface in All Solid-State Batteries through Operando Study”.
Jul 01, 2019
NSF Award for Roll-to-Roll Printing of Multi-layer Flexible Substrate Electronics
MIE Assistant Professors Xiaoning “Sarah” Jin and Hongli Zhu were awarded a $544K NSF grant for “Manufacturing USA: Precision Alignment of Roll-to-Roll Printing of Flexible Paper Electronics Through Modeling and Virtual Sensor-based Control.”