News and Honors

  • 03/2024 Physics Today highlights our recent research in Nature, as “Better batteries for cold weather“.
  • 02/2024 TechXplore highlights our recent research published in Nature Energy, as “A strategy to design lithium anode interlayer design for all-solid-state lithium-metal batteries“.
  • 11/2023   Drs. Ji Chen, Tao Gao, Singyuk Hou, Xiao Ji, Chongying Yang, and Chunsheng Wang are 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list by Clarivate!
  • 11/2023   NBC news highlights our innovation in reducing fire risk from lithium-ion batteries.
  • 06/2023   Prof. Chunsheng Wang has been selected as a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society, Class of 2023! Congratulations on being selected for this honor.
  • 02/2023   American Energy Society, the professional association for energy and sustainability, spotlighted the University of Maryland and CREB in their Battery Spotlight; A Landscape View of the Battery Sector in the US.
  • 01/2022   Prof. Chunsheng Wang shows his ideas in a CNBC-produced short documentary about EV fires.
  • 01/2022   Prof. Chao Luo of George Mason University won the CBET Electrochemical Systems CAREER award. Congratulations.
  • 01/2022   Singyuk Hou was selected for the Graduate School’s Outstanding Research Assistant Award for AY 2021-22.Congratulations.
  • 06/2021   Prof. Chunsheng Wang was selected as the winner of the 2021 Battery Division Research Award by the Electrochemical Society.
  • 04/2021   Prof. Chunsheng Wang and Dr. Chongyin Yang were nominated for and won the 2021 Invention of the Year award. Congratulations.
  • 01/2021   Dr. Chongyin Yang, a former assistant research scientist is named Tesla Canada Research Chair and Assistant Professor of Dalhousie University.
  • 12/2020   Prof. Chunsheng Wang and former assistant research scientist Dr. Xiulin Fan are named 2020 highly cited researchers from Clarivate Web of Science.
  • 07/2020   Former Ph.D. student from our group, Dr. Tao Gao is joining the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah as an assistant professor in the fall of 2020.
  • 07/2020   Our group was awarded a $1,000,000 grant from the Department of Energy for Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research based on Micro-sized Si anode.
  • 07/2020   Tao Deng is listed as one of the winners of the 2020 Dean’s Doctoral Student Research Awards.
  • 06/2020   Prof. Chao Luo of George Mason University, a former Ph.D. student from our group, is awarded an NSF grant for Organic and Polymer Structure Engineering for Na-ion and Multivalent Metal Batteries.
  • 06/2020   Prof. Chunsheng Wang was listed as one of the Top 10 Battery Researchers to Watch by Research Interface (reprinted by the Electrochemical Society).
  • 04/2020   Dr. Ji Chen‘s paper on Nature Energy is covered in the Department’s news at UMD.
  • 03/2020   Tao Deng was awarded Wylie Dissertation Fellowship.
  • 03/2020   Corporation between Dr. Chunsheng Wang and Dr. Binsong Li from Navitas won the Best Poster Award of Battery 500 quarterly meeting. Sufu Liu is the co-first author.
  • 02/2020   Tao Deng has been selected as one of the nominees for the Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
  • 01/2020   Tao Deng has been accepted by the Clark School of Engineering to take part in the Future Faculty Program.
  • 01/2020   Tao Deng has been selected for the Graduate School’s Outstanding Research Assistant Award for AY 2019-20.  (2% of campus Graduate Assistants in a given year).
  • 2019   Prof. Chunsheng Wang is included on the Web of Science Group’s 2019 list of Highly Cited Researchers, a compilation of influential names in science. College News.
  • 2019   ARPA-E Innovation Showcase on Capitol Hill

  • 07/2019   Dr. Fudong Han‘s paper in Nature Energy is commented by Yuguo Guo in Nature Energy ‘The devil is in the electrons
  • 07/2019   Dr. Chongyin Yang‘s paper in Nature is commented by Xianyou Wang and Xiulei Ji in Nature EnergyAqueous batteries get energetic
  • 07/19/2019   Dr. Xiulin Fan‘s paper “High energy-density and reversibility of iron fluoride cathode enabled via an intercalation-extrusion reaction” on Nat Comm is selected as Top 50 in Chemistry and Materials Science in 2018.
  • https://www.nature.com/collections/cfdehgffbj/
  • 06/10/2019    Dr. Chao Luo introduced his research experience to the group. He will join George Mason University as an assistant professor in 2019 Fall.
  • 05/27/2019    Dr. Fudong Han introduced his research experience to the group. He will join Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an assistant professor (Priti and Mukesh Chatter ’82 Career Development Chair) in 2019 Fall.
  • 05/20/2019    Dr. Xiulin Fan introduced his research experience to the group.
  • 5/2019    Ruochen Xu‘s paper ‘Cathode-Supported All-Solid-State Lithium-Sulfur Batteries with High Cell-Level Energy Density’ published in ACS Energy Letters is among the most read articles for the past month. http://pubs.acs.org/action/showMostReadArticles?journalCode=aelccp
  • 11/2018   Dr. Fei Wang‘s paper has been selected as Readers’ Favorite Paper.

  • 11/2018   Prof. Chunsheng Wang has been named a 2018 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate! see the webpage. 
  • 10/2018   Prof. Chunsheng Wang has been awarded the Robert Franklin and Frances Riggs Wright Distinguished Chair in Chemical Engineering.
  • 06/2018   Xiulin Fan‘s Nature Communication paper is featured by the editor, see the webpage.
  • 05/2018   Fudong Han won the ‘2018 ECS Battery Division Student Research Award’
  • 05/2018   Fudong Han won the ‘2018 Dean’s Doctoral Research Award’; Project: Revisiting the Electrochemical Stability Window of Solid Electrolytes
  • 04/2017   Fudong Han won a prestigious gold award during the recent Material Research Society meeting. The award has been announced on the MRS website (http://www.mrs.org/gsa-past).
  • 04/2017  Dr. Xiulin Fan and Dr. Chongyin Yang were promoted to Assistant Research Scientist by ChBE Department due to their outstanding research work and service to the group. Congratulation!
  • Organic Electrode Research Highlighted by Sohu, Cailiaoniu, and ChemistryView.

Recent Posts