Group News Update
April 2025: Congratulation to Yizhi for another great work that published in J. Energy Storage! Check this out for details: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2025.116577
March 2025 Together with Prof. Koratkar (RPI) and Prof. Meng (Univ. of Arkansas), we have initiated a special issue for 10th Anniversary of Batteries: Interface Science in Batteries (MDPI): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/batteries/special_issues/I2ZPZZS57L
Hope it is well-received!
Feb 2025: Welcome to Ken to join our group for his MS study!
Feb 2025: Congratulation to Yizhi for Ovshinsky Student Travel Awards from APS Division of Materials Physics! We are proud of you!
Jan 2025: Welcome to James to join our group for his MS study in Sandia's project!
Dec 2024: Congratulation to Linda for her BS research that published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interface! Thanks to Joe and his group members for the wonderful experimental works!
Sept 2024: Congratulation to Yizhi for your another new publication in Nanoscale! Great job!
July 2024: Congratulation to Yizhi for your new publication in Matter! Thanks to our experimental collaborators from UCLA, Drexel University, and LBNL!
June 2024: Congratulation to Jake for his MS Thesis defense!
May 2024: Congratulation to Zafer for his official staff position at LANL! We are proud of you!
March 2024: Congratulation to Jake for being accepted to PhD study in ASU! All the best!
Feb 2024: Congratulation to Yizhi for your 2nd publication (Int. J. Hydrogen Energy)!
Jan 2024: Congratulation to Yizhi for your 1st publication (iScience) in DOE project! Thanks to our collaborators from SRNL!
Nov 2023: Congratulation to Phu for his MS Thesis defense! All the best!
Sept 2023: Congratulation to Zafer and Phu for their publication in CNN and DNN model in viscosity prediction of ILs! Great job!
April 2023: Congratulation to Jake for his 2nd paper in batteries research! Well done!
Jan 2023: Wellcome to Yizhi to join our group for his PhD study in DOE project!
Dec 2022: Congratulation to Zafer for his MS Thesis defense!
Sept 2022: TMI group received grant from DOE for 2023-2025, we will be part of the team led by SRNL!
July 2022: Another paper from TMI group in Li-O2 Battery published in ACS Energy Lett.! Thanks to our collaborators from Argonne National Lab!
June 2022: Congratulation to Phu for his 2nd paper published in J. Phys. Chem C.! Thanks to our collaborators from the Ohio State University, especially Prof. Wu!
March 2022: Congratulation to Zafer for being accepted to PhD study in MTU! Good luck!
Feb 2022: Congratulation to Zafer for his paper in Machine-Learning Simulation in Ionic Liquids! Great job!
Jan 2022: Congratulation to Jake for his first paper in ALD coating in Li-S battery!
Oct 2021: Congratulation to Phu for his paper in low melting point alkali metal salts! Thanks to our collaborators from the Ohio State University, especially Prof. Wu!
Sept 2021: TMI group received a grant for a new CPU/GPU hybrid computing cluster! Thanks to NSF and PIs from CSUN!
August 2021: Our latest paper in X-ray adsorption spectra prediction for Li-S solids (sulfides and polysulfides) has been accepted and will published soon in RSC Materials Advances (open access journal)! Hopefully our prediction will soon be verified by experiments! Congratulation to Qing for his another latest paper from our group!
August 2021: Our group latest work in Molecular Layer Deposiiton (MLD) has been accepted in Energy Material Advances (AAAS journal)! Thanks to the collaborators from University of Arkansas especially Prof. Meng!
July 2021: Congratulation to Qing for his latest paper in potassium-based battery that published in a high-impact journal: Energy Storage Materials! Thanks to our long-term external collaborator: Prof. Zhai from Tsinghua University to involve us in his work!
May 2021: Congratulation to Qing for his upcoming postdoc position at Washington State University at Pullman. Good luck!
April 2021: Congratulation to Qing for his latest publication (ACS Applied Nano Materials) in novel anticorrosion surface coating for Uranium metal during his work as Summer Research Student Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory during 2020. Thanks to Dr. Ping Yang and her group members from LANL!
Feb 2021: Congratulation to Qing for his successful PhD. defense! Excellent, Dr. Qing!
Jan 2021: Congratulation to Qing for his latest works been accepted & published in J. Phys. Chem. C! Hopefully our prediction on mechanical and electronic properties of polysulfides solids can help the experimentalists improve the design of Li-S battery cathodes!
August 2020: Great news! Prof. Lau just received a small collaborative grant from RCSA! Thanks all the PIs whom involved in this project!
June 2020: Another collaborative work in computational OER/ORR in Li-O2 battery just got accepted in Surface Science! Thanks to our new collaborators, Prof. Kara and his group from University of Central Florida!
Feb 2020: Great news! Prof. Lau just received Cottrell Scholar Awards from RCSA this year! Thanks the supports of RCSA, anonymous reviewers, and group members to make it possible.
Jan 2020: Prof. Lau served as a Poster Judge in 7th Annual Portola Highly Gifted Magnet (HGM) Science Fair on 24 Jan. 2020. Great jobs, all the students!
Nov 2019: Congratulation to Qing for his 3rd paper been accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C! Hopefully our prediction of the novel Li2S3 solid will confirmed by experiments in the future!
Oct 2019: Another collaborative work in Li-O2 battery just got accepted in J. Phys. Chem. A! Thanks to our long term collaborators from Argonne National Laboratory for their persistent efforts in Li-O2 battery research!
Sept 2019: Our group's latest paper in CO2 reduction just got accepted in Nature Energy! Thanks to all collaborators from Argonne National Laboratory especially Prof. Yimin Wu from University of Waterloo!
Sept 2019: Our collaborative work in Potassium based battery just got accepted and is online now at Advanced Energy Materials! Thanks again for our long term collaborators from Tsinghua University (China), especially Prof. Dengyun Zhai and his group members!
August 2019: Welcome to our new group member, Jake! Hopefully you will enjoy the research experiences with us!
August 2019: Farewell to our group first data-mining and machine learning veteran: Bryan Dinh! We all enjoy the Vietnamese cuisine you introduced! Good luck to your PhD study at USC!
June 2019: Welcome to our new group member, Linda! Hopefully you will like the research experiences with us!
May 2019: Welcome Qing to visit us at LA from Michigan. Qing will stay at LA working with us for his PhD thesis study throughout the summer. Hopefully you will enjoy the sunny weather at California!
April 2019: Congratulation to Bryan for his MS thesis defense! Excellent talk and research works done!
April 2019: Congratulation to Qing for his second paper published in J. Mater. Chem. C! Thanks to our new collaborators from ORNL, MIT and National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)!
March 2019: Congratulation to Alex for his first paper published in J. Phys. Chem. C in collaboration with Prof. Gao at CSUN.
Feb 2019: Congratulation to Qing for his first paper published in J. Phys. Chem. C in collaboration with Prof. Pandey at MTU.
Jan 2019: Great news! We just obtained a grant from Alfred A Sloan Foundation in collaboration with Utah State University and Columbia University in redox flow battery research! Let's do it!