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Our group received support from The Welch Foundation for a research project titled “Exploring Links between Vibrational and Configurational Entropies in Complex Oxides via First-Principles and Machine Learning.” This is a significant achievement, particularly during these uncertain times for federal funding.

The Welch Foundation supports fundamental chemical research at educational institutions within the state of Texas. A research grant provides a minimum of $100,000 per year in funding to support research in chemistry by a full-time regular faculty member with tenure or on tenure-track who serves as principal investigator. Applications are restricted to universities, colleges, or other educational institutions located within the state of Texas and also listed as an educational institution by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

Our research reacently published in, “Obtaining V₂(PO₄)₃ by sodium extraction from single-phase Na_x(V₂(PO₄)₃(1<x<3) positive electrode materials. Nat. Mater. 24, 234-242 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02023-7 research toghether with LRCS in Amiens, France and ICMCB, Université de Bordeaux, France, was featured in Science Move over lithium: Sodium batteries could one day power a green economy

A PDF of this article can be found here.

Our group is excited to share with you that Piero has been named ACS Materials Au Rising Star in Materials Science!

Piero has been featured among the 17 early career materials researchers from around the world, who are pushing scientific boundaries, conducting impactful research at the forefront of fundamental or applied research, and interfacing with other disciplines.

More info can be found in this link.

On December 1^st the PhD studente Eshaan Patheria from the research group of Kim See at Caltech visited our laboratory.

Eshaan seemed to enjoy a rainy science discussion with Jerry and Ziliang.

The group of Prof. Palacín at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, Spain could reproduce our predictions in Lu W., Wang J., Gautam G. S., Canepa P.; Chem. Mater., 33, 5809-5821 (2021) on CaV₂O₄ as cathode material for Ca-ion batteries.

More information about the novel experimental findings by the Palacín’s group can be found in Energy Storage Materials, 47, 354-364 (2022).

Today, July 30^th, Baltej Singh published the exciting results of our research lead by our collaborator Dr. Dipan Kundu in the School of Chemical Engineering at UNSW, Australia.

The manuscript investigates the fundamental electro-chemo-mechanical stabilities of Lithium-Indium and Lithium-Tin alloys of varied Li stoichiometries with sulfide electrolyte based SSBs. The intermetallic electrodes developed through a controlled synthesis and fabrication technique display impressive (electro)chemical stability with Li₆PS₅Cl as the solid electrolyte and maintain nearly perfect interfacial contact during the electrochemical Li insertion/de-insertion under an optimal stack pressure.

The manuscript can be found here

Big congratulations to Baltej for his achievement!

On July 15^th, Mr. Ziliang Wang has passed successfully the most important exam towards the fulfillment of his Phd in Materials Science and Engineeing at NUS. Big congratulations Ziliang towards your PhD achievements and success in science.

Most importantly, Ziliang salary now will be increased, which will allow him to pay your dinner.

On April 12^th, 2021, the research work of Mr. Tara P. Mishra entitled Unlocking the Origin of Compositional Fluctuations in InGaN Light Emitting Diodes and developed by NUS and SMART was has received some press in a number of new outlets, which are:

• The science behind varying performance of different colored LEDs on phys.org
• New Method may Lead to More Efficient LEDs by AZO Optics
• SMART discovers the science behind varying performance of different colored LEDs by ScienceDaily’s
• Researchers discover the science behind varying performance of different colored LEDs published on www.nanowerk.com
• New method observes compositional fluctuations in high-indium-content InGaN LEDs by Semiconductor Today

The full manuscript can be found here.