Yunxun Ren

Dr. Yuxun Ren
Post Doctorate Associate
yren1235@umd.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, 2019
  • B.Eng in New Energy Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, 2015

Research Interests

  • Lithium/Sodium-Metal Batteries
  • Solid-State Batteries

Publications

  1. Y. X. Ren, W. Shin, A. Manthiram*, Operating high-energy lithium-metal pouch cells with reduced stack pressure through a rational lithium-host design, Advanced Energy Materials, 2022, 202200190.
  2. Y. X. Ren, Z. H. Cui, A. Barghav, J. R. He, A. Manthiram*, A self-healable sulfide/polymer composite electrolyte for long-life, low-lithium-excess lithium-metal batteries, Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32, 202106680.
  3. Y. X. Ren, N. M. Hortance, J. R. McBride, K. B. Hatzell*, Sodium-sulfur batteries enabled by a protected inorganic/organic hybrid solid electrolyte”, ACS Energy Letters, 2020, 6, 345-353.
  4. Y. X. Ren, L. Zeng, H. R. Jiang, Q. Chen*, T. S. Zhao*, Rational design of spontaneous reactions for protecting porous Li electrodes in lithium-sulfur batteries, Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 3249.
  5. Y. X. Ren, T. S. Zhao*, M. Liu, P. Tan, Y. K. Zeng, Modeling of lithium-sulfur batteries incorporating the effect of Li2S precipitation”, Journal of Power Sources, 2016, 336, 115–125.

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