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Haoxuan Yan successfully defended his PhD thesis on August 2, 2023!
We congratulate Haoxuan Yan from the Pal Lab for successfully defending his PhD thesis titled “SOLID OXIDE MEMBRANE ELECTROLYSIS OF METAL OXIDES FOR ADVANCED ENERGY APPLICATIONS”. Great job Dr. Yan! We wish you the best on your future professional endeavors.
Zhaoyi successfully defended his MS thesis!
We congratulate Zhaoyi Zheng for successfully defending his MS thesis titled “TWO-COMPONENT ELECTROCHEMICAL COUPLING REACTION FOR END-GROUP ASSISTED ELECTRODEPOSITION OF ULTRATHIN POLYMER FILMS”. Great job Zhaoyi and we are looking forward to your continued research progress as a PhD student in the Werner Lab!
New NSF Funding to study Electrodeposition Stability
Prof. Emily Ryan just received funding from NSF to study electrodeposition stability in collaboration with researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
BU paper wins LMD/EPD Energy Best Paper Award – Professional Award
A paper titled “Quantifying the relationship between microstructure and performance in gadolinium-doped ceria infiltrated Ni/YSZ symmetric cells” by Jillian Rix Mulligan, Srikanth Gopalan, Uday Pal, and Soumendra Basu, published in JOM, 74, 4527–4532 (2022), won the TMS LMD/EPD Best Paper Award – Professional.
2012 BU Alum Eric Gratz, CTO and Co-founder of Ascend Elements
Ascend Elements CTO Eric Gratz, Ph.D. was recently recognized by Business Insider as an EV industry “Power Player.” The annual list recognizes the 30 most influential leaders in the electric vehicle and Li-ion battery industries.
“Gratz helped cofound and invent Ascend’s technological process for this potentially critical part of the EV-battery supply chain. He has also played a role in Ascend developing a process to recover 98% of the critical raw materials in used lithium-ion batteries and manufacturing scrap. His technology can minimize the need for mining, which is harmful to the environment and the communities in which it operates.”
Ascend Elements was also Named to Fast Company's Annual List of the World's Most Innovative Companies for 2023
ROXY turns Moon dust into Oxygen
An international team led by Airbus Defense and Space (Friedrichshafen, Germany) with scientists from Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM (Dresden, Germany), Boston University (Uday Pal) and Abengoa Innovación (Seville, Spain) has successfully demonstrated the production of oxygen and metals from simulated lunar dust (regolith) with the Airbus-invented process named ROXY (Regolith to Oxygen and Metals Conversion). Airbus believes ROXY could revolutionize human space exploration. Currently the project is funded by the European Space Agency.
Symposium in Honor of Prof. Uday Pal – TMS 2024
Honorary Symposia (TMS 2024, Orlando, Florida, (March 3-7, 2024)
High Temperature Electrochemistry: An FMD Symposium Honoring Uday B. Pal
This symposium will cover fundamentals and applications of high-temperature electrochemistry, including using I-V, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS), and Distribution of Relaxation Times (DRT) data to understand polarization losses, reaction mechanisms, and device degradation; electrochemical behavior of solid oxide fuel cells and electrolyzers; green engineering as applied to energy conversion and primary production of materials; solid-oxide-membrane based electrolytic cells for converting waste to hydrogen; hydrogen storage materials; devices based on mixed-ion-electron-conducting (MIEC) oxide membranes for generating and separating pure hydrogen from hydrocarbons enabling CO2 sequestration; and electrochemical processes for recovery of critical materials.
ECS Best Presentation Award to Madison Morey
Madison Morey won the best presentation award for her section of the Battery Student Slam at the 243rd Electrochemical Society Meeting.
New NSF Funding to investigate interfacial transport in batteries
Emily Ryan awarded new NSF grant on understanding interfacial phenomena in batteries in collaboration with Daniel Sharon at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem