Jungwoo Wins the On-campus Entrepreneur Chanllenge Competition
Jungwoo pitched in the on-campus Entrepreneur Chanllenge competition at South 8 Technologies and won $2,000! She was awesome up there!! Congratulations!
Battery experts (including Prof. Shirley Meng) explain the needs and challenge for better batteries
More detail see http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/super-battery.html
Our paper on Zn-based aqueous battery had been selected as the PCCP front cover
Our work on Zn-based aqueous battery had been selected as the PCCP front cover. Congrats Jae! J.W. Shin, J.-M. You, J. Z. Lee, R. Kumar, L. Yin, J. Wang, and Y.…
Professor Meng Talks Energy Storage on ECS
Professor Meng talks energy storage on ECS. She shows the future of batteries. More information see link.
LESC is part of the new Battery500 consortium
LESC is part of the new Battery500 consortium led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) aiming to almost triple the energy packed in electric car batteries and make them smaller,…
Improve performance of cathode material by controlling oxygen activity
Our research 'Gas–solid interfacial modification of oxygen activity in layered oxide cathodes for lithium-ion batteries' was published on Nature Communication. See news report on this link.
“Ceramics for Energy” Workshop
“Ceramics for Energy” Workshop will be hold on June 3rd (Fri) and 4th (Sat half-day), 2016 in San Diego, California More details see link.
Moses Kodur Received Best Presentation Award
Moses Kodur, an undergraduate student in Prof. Shirley Meng’s group at Department of NanoEngineering, UC San Diego was awarded a prize for Best Presentation - Energy at the Gulf Coast…
Smart People is funded by Benefunder
Dr. Meng is featured in an article about Benefunder that was posted on Panet Experts. See link. Shirley Meng of UCSD is finding innovative ways to store and convert renewable energy.…
Diagnosis lithium ion battery using Bragg coherent diffractive imaging
By using Bragg coherent diffractive imaging, our collaborators and us developted the operando characterization of the topological defects in the cathode nanoparticles of lithium ion battery. Based on this technique, three-dimensional…