News and Events04/17/2023 As a member of the NSF PREM team, Dr. Lu and his colleagues won NC A&T’s 2023 Interdisciplinary Team Award. Congratulations!
04/04/2023 Obinna Chiekezi is the recipient of two Spring 2023 Applied Engineering Technology Department scholarships: Aggie Excellence Scholarship and Department Advisory Board Scholarship. Well done, Obinna! 03/24/2023 Jarell Hunter has been selected by DOE's Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) Energy Storage Summer Internship Program. This program is sponsored by the Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office. Congratulations, Jarell! 01/04/2023 Anansi Coleman will join TreadStone Technologies for an internship during the spring semester. Congratulations! 12/07/2022 Dr. Lu was invited for a talk entitled “Li-ion Batteries for Electric Vehicle applications: Status, Challenges, and Perspectives” at the High Point Bar Association’s luncheon. 10/10/2022 Obinna Chiekezi visited our collaborator, TreadStone Technologies, and will work with our collaborator on a research project on flow batteries. 04/29/2022 Obinna Chiekezi will join Dr. Feng Lin's group at Virginia Tech as a summer intern . Well done, Obinna! 04/13/2022 Toyosi Adebisi was awarded with the departmental “Research and Innovation” scholarship for the Spring 2022 semester. Congratulation, Toyosi! 04/05/2022 Jie Molloy will join Dr. Nicholas Rolston's group at Arizona State University for a summer internship. 12/23/2021 Our recent research on solid-state Na battery was published in Nature Nanotechnology. This work is a synergy among N.C. A&T, University of Maryland, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Idaho National Laboratory. The news release can be found HERE. 11/19/2021 Dr. Lu was invited by Dr. Fanxing Li from the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at North Carolina State University and delivered a talk at Dr. Li's group. Dr. Lu also met with Dr. Veronica Augustyn (Materials Science and Engineering Department) and Dr. William Joe Sagues (Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department), and discussed potential collaboration opportunities. 10/10-11/2021 Dr. Lu, Obinna Chiekezi, Toyosi Adebisi, Jie Molloy, and Gianni Ramos-Dawson attended the HBCU/MSI Research Summit at Virginia Tech (VT). Dr. Lu delivered a seminar on solid-state Na batteries at The Electrochemical Society VT Student Chapter hosted by Dr. Feng Lin and Stephanie Spence from the Department of Chemistry at VT. Thanks for the invitation! 04/22/2021 Our undergraduate student, Jie Molloy, will join Dr. Feng Lin's group at Virginia Tech as an intern during this coming summer. Congratulation to Jie! 02/23/2021 Dr. Lu delivered an invited seminar entitled “Li-ion Batteries: Fundamentals, Materials, and Safety Issues" at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 04/23/2020 Oluwatosin Awosika accepted a summer internship from Dell. Congratulation! 04/18/2020 Our second paper entitled “Tuning the anode-electrolyte interface chemistry for garnet-based solid-state Li metal batteries” has been accepted for publication in Advanced Materials. 03/26/2020 Our first paper entitled “Emerging Soluble Organic Redox Materials for Next-Generation Grid Energy Storage Applications” has been accepted for publication in MRS Communications. Many thanks to our collaborators at PNNL. 02/01/2020 Oluwatosin Awosika joined our group as our first graduate student. Oluwatosin, welcome on board! 08/16/2019 The Lu group officially kicked off at North Carolina A&T State University! |
Recent PublicationsO. Chiekezi, X. He, H. Wang, O. Ayodele, T. Deng, D. Reed, C. Wang, X. Lu*, “Highly Conductive PEO-Based Composite Polymer Electrolyte for Na Battery Applications”, ACS Applied Energy Materials, accepted.
M. Sahal, J. Molloy, V. Narayanan, L. Ladani, X. Lu, N. Rolston, “Robust and Manufacturable Lithium Lanthanum Titanate Solid-State Electrolyte Thin Films Deposited in Open-Air”, ACS Omega, accepted. T. Deng, X. Ji, L. Zou, O. Chiekezi, L. Cao, X. Fan, T.R. Adebisi, H.-J. Chang, H. Wang, B. Li, X. Li, C. Wang, D. Reed, J.-G. Zhang, V.L. Sprenkle, C. Wang & X. Lu*, “Interfacial-engineering-enabled practical low-temperature sodium metal battery”, Nature Nanotechnology, accepted. M.M. Li , X. Lu*, X. Zhan, M.H Engelhard, J.F. Bonnett, E. Polikarpov, K. Jung, D.M. Reed, V.L. Sprenkle, G. Li, “High performance sodium-sulfur batteries at low temperature enabled by superior molten Na wettability”, Chemical Communications, accepted. |