Research Interest

1. Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials

- Li- and Na- ion batteries

- All-Soild-state batteries

- Electrochemical Capacitors (or Supercapacitors)

2. Advanced In situ Characterization of Energy Materials under operando conditions

- Synchrotron based X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (EXAFS/XANES) technique

- High resolution powder diffraction (HRPD) with Rietveld refinement

- X-ray total scattering (i.e., Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis)

- Scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM)

- Tender x-ray absorption & fluorescence spectro-microscopy (at S, P and Cl K-edges)