News

2024

05/09/2024

Dr. Mu gave an invited talk on the APS user meeting.

04/23/2024

Dr. Mu gave an talk on the interfacial chemistry and degradation pathway of layered oxide cathode during the 2024 MRS spring meeting.

02/09/2024

Dr. Mu hosted the MaterAIZ Seminar presented by Dr. Kang Xu on “Electrolytes, Interfaces and Interphases”! Great historical review on electrochemistry field!

01/11/2024

Our paper entitled “Interfacial degradation of the NMC/Li6PS5Cl composite cathode in all-solid-state batteries” has been accepted by Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Congrads to all the co-authors!

2023

12/11/2023

Matthew Jacobs is awarded the FURI (https://em.engineering.asu.edu/cases/energy-inquiry-fulton-undergraduate-research-initiative-furi) funding to study the interfacial chemistry of NMC cathode materials with us for 2024 spring. Big congrads!

12/01/2023

Dr. Mu hosted the MaterAIZ Seminar presented by Prof. Yan-Yan Hu on “NMR/MRI studies of ion transport, interface chemistry, and microstructure formation in solid-state batteries”.

11/17/2023

Dr. Mu hosted the MaterAIZ Seminar presented by Dr. Enyuan Hu on “Developing electrolyte and characterizing interphase for lithium metal batteries”.

09/29/2023

Dr. Mu has organized a half day workshop of SSRL/LCLS User’s Meeting “Fundamental Studies of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage using Synchrotron X-ray Probes”.

09/15/2023

Dr. Mu hosted the MaterAIZ Seminar and the campus visit by Dr. David Mitlin from UT Austin!

08/18/2023

Dr. Mu has organized a two-day symposium of “Women in Battery Research” at ACS Fall meeting in San Francisco.

06/25/2023

Our review paper “Fundamentals and perspectives of electrolyte additives for non- aqueous Na-ion batteries” has been accepted by the Journal Energy Materials, congratulations on Nicholas Antrasian and Vijayendra Soni!

https://f.oaes.cc/xmlpdf/30caa1ee-dd04-4fda-a1cc-dc765ffe2987/em3022.pdf

02/24/2023

We were thrilled to host the Nobel Prize Winner “M. Stanley Whittingham” on ASU campus, he shared their advanced research results with our undergraduate, graduate, and many other faculty members.

01/24/2023

Mu lab welcomes Yuwei Zhu, he is interested in working on interfacial chemistry in solid-state batteries!

2022

12/05/2022

Mu Lab welcomes Parker Ferguson and Jonathan McGill, they will work on 3D printing batteries!

10/11/2022

Mu gave an talk in ECS Atlanta “Resolving charge distribution for compositionally heterogeneous battery cathode materials”.

9/12/2022

Mu’s co-author paper “Rigid-Rod Sulfonated Polyamide as an Aqueous-Processable Binder for Li-Ion Battery Electrodes” has been accepted by ACS Applied Energy Materials!

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsaem.2c02173

9/9/2022

Welcome Miranda Gonzalez and Drishya Priya Saji!

9/8/2022

Welcome Roman DeCaro, Matthew Jacobs, and Nicholas Antrasian join Mu Lab!

08/20/2022

Welcome MS Zishuo Zhao, Vijayendra Soni, and Aman Saketh Bolem join Mu Lab!