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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.”
Apr 09, 2019
FY20 TIER 1 Award Recipients
25 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY20 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different projects representing up to $900K dollars of investment in research.
Jun 08, 2018
Ultrastable 2D Metallic and Ion Transport Nanotube Highlighted as Cover Paper in Advanced Energy Materials
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu’s research on “Lithium‐Ion Batteries: Ion Transport Nanotube Assembled with Vertically Aligned Metallic MoS2 for High Rate Lithium‐Ion Batteries” was featured on the inside back cover of Advanced Energy Materials.
Oct 25, 2017
Zhu on Cover of Advanced Functional Materials
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu’s research on “Batteries: Freestanding Metallic 1T MoS2 with Dual Ion Diffusion Paths as High Rate Anode for Sodium-Ion Batteries” was featured on the cover of Advanced Functional Materials.
Oct 05, 2017
Zhu's Research Featured on Inside Cover of Nanoscale
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu’s research on “Ultralight, highly thermally insulating and fire resistant aerogel by encapsulating cellulose nanofibers with two-dimensional MoS2” was featured on the inside cover of the Nanoscale journal.
Jun 28, 2017
Young Scholar Program Provides Experience-Based Learning for Future Scientists and Engineers
The Center for STEM Education kicked off its 2017 Young Scholars Program on June 26, 2017, with 26 budding scientists and engineers from high schools at a variety of cities and towns in the Greater Boston area.