09/28/2025: Congratulations on Shuguo's manuscript accepted by the Journal of Energy Chemsitry (IF=14.9)! This is our first paper working primarily on thermal hazards of batteries! Keep up the good work!
09/21/2025: Congratulations Jun on being included in the Top 2% Scientists worldwide list! This year, Jun ranked 29,133/236,314 (Top 12.32%) worldwide in all discplines within the entire Top 2% list, compared with previous years ranking 39,154/223,153 (Top 17.55%), 52,757/210,199 (Top 25.10%), 65,064/200,197 (Top 32.50%), 66,829/190,064 (Top 35.16%) in previous years.
08/01/2025: After thorough consideration, Xijun has decided to pursue biomedical engineering research. We wish Xijun all the best in the future!
07/23/2025: Sihui and Keming successfully landed USA and started their research journey at EMSLab! Look forward to working with these talented students!
05/16/2025: Congratulations on Shuguo's new paper by the Journal of Materials Chemistry A (IF=10.7)! This is a joint work with GM!
03/24/2025: Congratulations on Bo's first paper accepted by the Journal of Materials Chemistry A (IF=10.7)! This is a great starting point for Bo's future research work. Nice job!
01/15/2025: Congratulations on Xijun's first paper accepted by the Journal of Energy Chemistry (IF=14)! This is a really good starting point for Xijun! Very importantly, Nathan Zeng, a senior student in high school who did summer research in our lab and made a great contribution to the work
11/15/2024: Congratulations on Shuguo's first paper accepted by Energy Materials and Devices! Very fast acceptance due to the high quality of the manuscript!
10/29/2024: Congratulations on Jun's elevation to the Fellow grade of ASME after 14 years of membership with ASME:-) This indicates a prestigious status of Jun's achievement in the ASME society regrading his battery research.
10/21/2024: Congratulations on Xiang's leave from the group and he now starts his PI career as an Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University! We wish him every success in his future career!
08/09/2024: Congratulations on Jun's elevation to the Senior Member grade of IEEE after 4 months he joined IEEE:-) This indicates a senior status of Jun's achievement in the IEEE society regrading his battery research.
08/05/2024: Xiang, Shuguo and Jun attended the BSW 2024 in Columbia SC and Xiang made a wonderful talk! Thanks Xinyu's great hospitality and outstanding leadership to make the workshop such a wonderful event!
07/21/2024: Congratulations on Yikai's new paper on the prestigious journal AEM talking about the thermal front propagation within the cell for the first time! This is the third AEM paper for Yikai and big cons for his hat-trick!
04/16/2024: Congratulations on Xiang's first Advanced Science paper! In this paper, we initiated our research journey to battery manufacturing regarding the binder gradient.
04/10/2024: Congratulations on Xudong's second prestigious AEM paper! In this paper, we proposed a phase-separation based model which can basically describe the electrochemical behaviors of the batteries upon various charging/discharging rates.
03/27/2024: Congratulations on Jiani's successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis work! Jiani started her Ph.D. during pandemic and she overcome so many challenges and finally finished her Ph.D. We wish her every success in her future endeavors!
02/20/2024: Congratulations Xijun Tan will join our group in the next Fall. Welcome Xijun!
12/12/2023: A very interestingly conceived topic by combining LFP and NMC particle together to mitigate the volume change during cycling for solid state batteries has been accepted by the prestigious energy journal -- Nano Energy. This work is a quick study of Chunhao when he was still a postdoc at our group. It turned out to be a very excellent quaility paper. Congratulations Chunhao!
12/07/2023: A new paper on describing lithium plating behavior by considering detailed inner cell structure has been directly accepted (without any revision) by the prestigious energy journal -- Energy and Environmental Materials (IF=15.1). This work is a collaboration with Binghe's group. Congratulations!
11/30/2023: Our group name has been changed to "Energy Mechanics and Sustainability Laboratory" (EMSLab)! With this new name, the group has entered a transformative stage, and gained the momentum needed to propel our group forward! Go EMSLaber!
10/08/2023: Congratulations! Jun is included in the World Top 2% Scientist List in both Single year (2023) and Career (all years) based on citations.
(Details: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6)
Jun is ranked as World Top 0.190% and 0.185% Scientist in fields of Mechanical Engineering & Transports, and Energy, respectively.
Also, our previous Ph.D. student, Prof. Binghe Liu is also included in the World Top 2% Scientist List in Single year (2023), congratulations Binghe!
08/27/2023: VESL Group's new website has bee established.