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The fundamental pillars of research at the Jiang group are
- inorganic materials synthesis and processing
- advanced characterization of materials
- materials for battery and other energy-related applications
The specific research interests include: (1) the production, processing, and recovery of functional or critical materials using approaches including solid-state, hydro/solvothermal, hydrometallurgical, and electrochemical methods; (2) understand and control chemical processes using in situ, operando, and in-line characterization methods; (3) develop analytical methods to unravel the atomic structure of materials and its correlation with the physical and chemical properties, with a particular focus on X-ray-based methods; (4) materials for battery and energy-related applications, in particular electrodes for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries, solid-state electrolytes, and other emerging battery technology and electrochemical systems; (5) rapid and semi-automated materials prediction and discovery by combining rapid synthesis, in situ characterization, computational materials science, and AI-integration.
Please contact the group for the latest active project topics and position openings.
Highlights
By adjusting the heating process when making lithium-ion cathodes, the team created batteries that retained nearly 93% of their energy after 500 cycles.
By instigating atomic disorder in lithium-ion battery materials, researchers created more stable materials that don’t expand, contract and degrade like traditional materials do.
Researchers have created a more energy dense storage material for iron-based batteries. The breakthrough could also improve applications in MRI technology and magnetic levitation.
