“Three-Dimensional Operando Photoacoustic Microscopy Reveals Hidden Patterns in the Complex Electrochemical Plating Process of Lithium Metal” is published in JACS. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c11702

Welcome Haolin Xie and Hainan Jiang to join the group as graduate student.

“Nonambient Thermodynamics in Solid-State Batteries” is published in ACS Energy Letters. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c01704

Congrats Prof. Shou-Hang Bo for winning First Price of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Teaching Achievement Award.

“Real 2D galvanostatic model: Encoding physicochemical heterogeneity into a full battery.” is published in Physical Review Letters. https://doi.org/10.1103/4783-dkt8

“Revealing the optimal cycling intervals and atomic-scale mechanisms of alkaline alloy anodes for solid-state batteries.” is published in Nano Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.111227

Welcome Yifan Wu to join the group as Assistant Research Professor.

Congrats Jingying Zhou for winning Best Poster Award of the International Symposium on AI for Electrochemistry.

“Regulating Amine Substitution in Fluorosulfonyl-Based Flame-Retardant Electrolytes for Energy-Dense Lithium Metal Batteries.” is published in Journal of the American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c03606

“Chemomechanical Pairing of Alloy Anodes and Solid-State Electrolytes.” is published in ACS Energy Letters. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.4c01983

Welcome Jincheng Zhong and Shangyuan Li to join the group as graduate student.

Welcome Hainan Jiang to join the group as Research Assistant.

Congrats Ping Li for successfully defending her Doctoral thesis “Cell and electrode design for high practical energy density of Mg-S Battery.”

“The Debate over Hard Carbon and Alloy Anodes Continues for Solid-State Sodium Batteries.” is published in ACS Energy Letters. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.4c01686

Congrats Zhe-Tao Sun for winning Outstanding Youth Academic Presentation Award of Chinese Material Conferenece 2024.

Congrats Jingying Zhou for winning Outstanding Oral Presentation Award of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Chemical Society.

“Optimizing lithium-silver alloy phases for enhanced energy density and electrochemical performance.” is published in Energy Storage Materials. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxmate.2024.100188

“Stacking pressure homogenizes the electrochemical lithiation reaction of silicon anode in solid-state batteries.” is published in Energy Storage Materials. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2024.103246

Intercalation–Conversion and Displacement–Conversion Strategies in Magnesium–Sulfur Batteries.” is published in ACS Applied Energy Materials. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.3c03239

Our group project is funded by CATL

Our project on interface mechanism research in all-solid-state batteries is funded by NSFC.

Our project, in collaboration with Prof. Fuqiang Huang of School of Material Science and Technology, is funded by Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality.

Our project, in collaboration with Prof. Yanming Wang of UM-SJTU Joint Institute, is funded by Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality.

Welcome Rushan Ren to join the group as graduate students

Our project on Fast-CT techniques in solid-state batteries is funded by SSRF.

“The Current Status and Challenges of All-solid-state Batteries: Characterisation Techniques and Mechanistic Understandings Drive Battery Innovations.” is published in Bulletin of National Natural Science Foundation of China. https://www.nsfc.gov.cn/csc/20345/20348/pdf/2023/202302-199-208.pdf

Welcome Chengyin Yang to join the group as graduate students

“Correlate phonon modes with ion transport via isotope substitution.” is published in the Science China Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-022-1488-9

Welcome Xunlu Li to join the group as researcher professor

Our project on multifield coupling in solid-state batteries wins excellent youth scholar award from Natural Science Foundation of China.

“Mapping and modeling physicochemical fields in solid-state batteries. ” is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letter. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02800

“Interfacial behavior of a thio-LISICON solid-state electrolyte under external pressure” is published in the ACS Applied Energy Materials. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.2c02285

“Positioning solid-state sodium batteries in future transportation and energy storage” is published in the Science Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2022.10.014

Welcome Huamei Li, Jie Wei, and Yuping Huang to join the group as graduate students

Our project, in collaboration with Prof. Yunlong Guo of UM-SJTU Joint Institute, is funded by CATL.

“Overpotential-Regulated stable cycling of a thin magnesium metal anode” is published in the ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c07893

“Rapid 3D nondestructive imaging technology for batteries: Photoacoustic microscopy” is published in the Journal of Materials Research. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-022-00615-0

“Design and characterization of host frameworks for facile magnesium transport” is published on Annual Review of Materials Research. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-matsci-081420-041617

“3D stress mapping reveals the origin of lithium-deposition heterogeneity in solid-state lithium-metal batteries” is published on Cell Reports Physical Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.100938

Congrats Yifan Wu for successfully defending his Doctoral thesis “Degradation mechanisms at interfaces between emerging anodes and electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries .”

“Understanding electro-mechanical-thermal coupling in solid-state lithium metal batteries via phase-field modeling” is published on Journal of Materials Research. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-022-00558-6

Congrats Jinhua Hu for successfully defending his Master thesis “Understanding the coupling between lithium dendrite growth and stress evolution in solid-state batteries.”

Yifan Wu receives Ph.D. Development Scholarship.

Our project on solid-state lithium metal batteries is funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, China, as a National Key R&D program.

“Ultrathin salt-free polymer-in-ceramic electrolyte for solid-state sodium batteries” is published on eScience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esci.2021.12.001

Congrats on Yifan Wu and Jinhua Hu for being awarded as the excellent graduates in SJTU.

“Miniature non-contact photoacoustic probe based on fiber-optic photoacoustic remote sensing microscopy” is published on Optics Letters. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.444889

Prof. Bo serves on the Early Career Advisory Board of Materials Today Energy.

Congrats Yirong Gao for receiving the KLA-Tencor scholarship.

“Accelerated growth of electrically isolated lithium metal during battery cycling” is published on ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.1c08944