11/03/2023
Congratulations
Congratulations to Dr. Lin Wang et al. on their new article entitled “Morphology Evolution in Self-Healing Liquid Gallium-Based Mg-ion Battery Anode” accepted for publication in ACS Energy Letters!
10/14/2023
Congratulations
Regional hydrogen hubs announced. Congratulations to the Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub (MACH2). Penn is among MACH2 partners and our lab is thrilled to contribute to the goals of the MACH2 in collaboration with other partner institutions in the tri-state area (PA, DE, NJ).
06/16/2023
Welcome
Welcome to our new postdocs: Dr Mohamed Hassan and Dr Roxana Family
06/13/2023
Congratulations
Congratulations to Dr Jintao Fu on his successful PhD defense!
06/06/2023
Congratulations
Congratulations to Dr Lin Wang on her successful PhD defense!
04/22/2023
Student Award
Congratulations to Jiaxin on Jo on their SEAS Outstanding Academic and Outstanding Research Awards
03/24/2023
Pictures from TMS 2023 in San Diego
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- Poster presentation Jintao
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- Poster presentation Jintao
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- Poster presentation Alex
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- Group Photo
03/03/2023
Postdoctoral Position Available
We have an opening for a postdoctoral position to work in a team with multiple collaborators (from Penn, Brown, Drexel, UMass, Slac National Laboratory) on a NSF-funded project. The ideal applicant should be familiar with (sodium-ion) battery electrochemistry, synthesis and testing of (sodium-ion) battery cathodes, coin cell and pouch cell battery assembly and testing, etc. Contact the PI for more information.
01/24/2023
Congratulations
Congratulations to Alexander K. Ng and Hyeongjun, recipients of the 2023 MSE Intel Award.
The Intel Graduate Fellowship Award is given to fourth-year PhD students in recognizing their scholarly productivity and scientific leadership.
01/14/2023
Welcome
Welcome to our new undergraduate research assistants Chiara and Julia.
08/12/2022
Master’s Thesis
Congratulations to Mayson on her successful master’s thesis presentation!
08/01/2022
Congratulations
Congratulations to Timothy Lee et al. on their new article entitled “Ultrafine Nanoporous Aluminum by Electrolytic Dealloying of Aluminum-Magnesium Alloys in Glyme-Based Electrolytes with Recovery of Sacrificial Magnesium ” accepted for publication in Scripta Materilia!
07/06/2022
Timothy Lee is PhD
Congratulations to Tim on his successful PhD defense!
07/01/2022
Congratulations
Congratulations to Jintao Fu et al. on their review article entitled “Dealloyed Air- and Water-Sensitive Nanoporous Metals and Metalloids for Emerging Energy Applications” accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials!
06/29/2022
Samuel Welborn is PhD
Congratulations to Sam on his successful PhD defense!
05/24/2022
2022 MRS Spring Meeting in Hawaii
Our group attended the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. Here are some pictures.
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- Oral Presentation Alex
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- Group Lunch
05/17/2022
Promotion
Congratulations to Eric on his promotion to Associate Professor in Materials Science & Engineering.
04/14/2022
Student Award
Congratulations to Yewei Huang on her SEAS Outstanding Research Award!
03/31/2022
Student Award
Lin Wang is the recipient of the 2022 Geoffrey Belton Graduate Fellowship Award for her significant contribution to the field of “self-healing” battery anodes. The Geoffrey Belton Graduate Fellowship Award is given to an MSE PhD student in her/his 3rd year of study who has made superior and significant contributions to her/his field of PhD study. Congratulations!
03/29/2022
New Publication
Congratulations to Dr. John Corsi on his two new papers entitled “Impact of the Gibbs-Thomson Effect on the Lithium Solubility in Silver Used as Alloy Lithium-Ion Battery Anode ” accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials, and “Sacrificial Silver Recovery during Nanoporous Gold Formation by Electrolytic Dealloying of Gold-Silver Alloy” accepted for publication in The Journal of The Electrochemical Society!
11/17/2021
John Corsi is PhD
Congratulations to John on his successful PhD defense!
08/22/2021
Sam’s Departure
Sam moved to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University to work for a year on operando X-ray characterization of 3D nanoporous Li-ion battery composite electrodes with the support of a DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) fellowship.
08/21/2021
New Publication
Congratulations to Tim on his new paper entitled “ Air Stable Nanoporous Aluminum/Lithium Borohydride Fuel Pellets for Onboard Hydrogen Generation by Hydrolysis with Pure Water ” accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials !
08/20/2021
NSF Future Manufacturing Research Grant
Our lab has received a 2021 NSF Future Manufacturing Research Grant (Eric Lead PI). We will work together with Drexel, UMass, Brown, SLAC National Laboratory and Xerion Advanced Battery Corp on the development of scalable 3D sodium-ion batteries.
08/11/2021
Congratulations
Congratulations to Alex on his first 1st. author paper entitled “Time-dependent power law function for the post-dealloying chemical coarsening of nanoporous gold derived using small-angle X-ray scattering” accepted for publication in Scripta Materialia !
07/23/2021
Congratulations
Congratulations to Sam Welborn et al. on their paper on “Effects of Side Reactions on the Kinetics of Nanoporous Gold Formation Revealed by Real-Time X-ray Scattering during Electrolytic Dealloying” accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A !
05/29/2021
Congratulations
Congratulations to Yihui on her PhD qualifying exam, passed with distinction!
05/22/2021
Congratulations
Congratulations to Sam on his DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award. Sam will be moving to the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford.
03/27/2021
Congratulations
Congratulations to John Corsi et al. on their paper on “Insights into the Degradation Mechanism of Nanoporous Alloy-Type Li-Ion Battery Anodes” accepted for publication in ACS Energy Letters !
03/26/2021
Congratulations
Congratulations to Sam Welborn et al. on their paper on “Chelation-Mediated Synthesis of Nanoporous Gold at Near-Neutral pH and Room Temperature by Free Corrosion Dealloying of Gold-Copper Alloy Driven by Oxygen Reduction” accepted for publication in Scripta Materialia !
03/20/2021
Congratulations
Congratulations to Eric on The S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award for his efforts in mentoring and guiding Penn Engineering undergraduate students.
02/20/2021
Congratulations
Congratulations to Sam Welborn et al. on their paper on “Using X-ray Scattering to Elucidate the Microstructural Instability of 3D Bicontinuous Nanoporous Metal Scaffolds for Use in Aperiodic 3D Tricontinuous Conductor-Insulator-Conductor Nanocapacitor” published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces !
06/01/2021
Congratulations
Congratulations to Jintao Fu et al. on their paper on “Eco-Friendly Synthesis of Nanoporous Magnesium by Air-Free Electrolytic Dealloying with Recovery of Sacrificial Element for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications” published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.!
12/22/2020
Congratulations
Our lab has been awarded a NSF CAREER grant. Congratulations!
11/07/2020
Congratulations
Congratulations to Manni Li et al. on their paper on “Impact of Hierarchical Nanoporous Architectures on Sodium Storage in Antimony-Based Sodium-Ion Battery Anodes” published in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
06/18/2020
Congratulations
Congratulations to Rishubh Palaniappan and Akshat Jain on their Masters Scholar Awards!
05/22/2020
Congratulations
Congratulations to Angela Kumira and Randy Chen on their Jumpstart for Juniors awards
04/16/2020
Congratulations
Tim Lee is the recipient of the 2020 Geoffrey Belton Graduate Fellowship Award. The Geoffrey Belton Graduate Fellowship Award is given to an MSE PhD student in their 3rd year of study who has made superior and significant contributions to their field of PhD study. Congratulations!
02/15/2020
Congratulations
Congratulations to Tim Lee et al. on their paper on “Activated alumina as value-added byproduct from the hydrolysis of hierarchical nanoporous aluminum with pure water to generate hydrogen fuel” published in Renewable Energy.
12/15/2019
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- Oral presentation Jintao
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- Poster presentation John
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- Oral presentation Sam
20/11/2019
Congratulations
08/28/2019
Welcome
08/25/2019
Some pictures of the MetFoam 2019 conference in Michigan, during which the graduate students Sam and John gave oral talks.
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- Oral presentation Sam
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- Oral presentation John
08/23/2019
Some pictures from the 2019 AAAFM conference in LA, during which the graduate students Sam, John, Jintao and Lin gave oral talks.
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- Jintao, Lin, John and Sam
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- Oral presentation Lin
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- Oral presentation Sam
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- Oral presentation Jintao
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- Oral presentation John
07/17/2019
Congratulations
Congratulations to Sam Welborn on his Graduate Fellowship awarded by the Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology (VIEST).
05/04/2019
Congratulations
Congrats to Olivia, Christina and Narelli (the Buble Stix Team) on winning the 3rd Prize of the 2019 SEAS Senior Design Projects Competition. Project Title: On-Demand Hydrogen Production System
04/09/2019
Congratulations
Congrats to Tim Lee on his NSF GRFP Award!
03/20/2019
Congratulations
Congrats to our former labmate Grant Shao on his new job as Lab Operations Engineer at the Stanford Nano Shared Facilities.
03/11/2019
Picture from TMS in San Antonio, Texas
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- B&B (delicious meal – self cook)
03/10/2019
Hydropore
A novel ultrafine and oxide-free nanoporous aluminum developped by John Corsi et al. may play a key role in large-scale sustainable hydrogen production by Hydropore, a Penn startup.
03/01/2019
Welcome
Welcome to Martijn van der Pluijm, visiting student from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
02/23/2019
Third International Symposium on Nanoporous Materials by Alloy Corrosion
Philadelphia will be hosting the 3rd International Symposium on Nanoporous Materials by Alloy Corrosion on February 24-28, 2019
Organizers: Joshua Snyder (Drexel University), Ian McCue (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab), Haijun Jin (Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Conference Website: http://www.chemeng.drexel.edu/snyderlab/symposium/index.html
02/20/2019
Congratulations
Congratulations to et al. on their manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society
02/17/2019
Congratulations
Congratulations to Jinta Fu et al. on their manuscript accepted for publication in JOM, The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
01/21/2019
Congratulations
Congratulations to Manni Li et al. on their manuscript accepted for publication in Scripta Materialia.
12/15/2018
Some Pictures MRS Fall Meeting
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- Poster presentation, Olivia
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- Poster presentation, Jintao
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- Poster presentation, John
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- Poster presentation, Manni
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- Oral presentation, Zeyu
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- Oral presentation, Sam
11/25/2018
MRS Fall Meeting
08/31/2018
Welcome
07/23/2018
Congratulations
07/02/2018
Congratulations
06/14/2018
Congratulations
06/13/2018
Congratulations
05/18/2018
Congratulations
05/06/2018
Welcome
04/08/2018
Congratulations
03/09/2018
Congratulations
Congratulations to Heng Wei on his Masters Scholar Award!
02/01/2018
Welcome
Welcome to our new master student researcher: Heng Wei!
01/10/2018
Congratulations
Congratulations to Hooman Yaghoobnejad Asl et al on their manuscript accepted for publication in Chemistry of Materials.