Publications
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Junghwa Lee†, Zhelong Jiang†*, Nicolas B. Liang, Jin Hwan Kwak, Howie Nguyen, Grace M. Busse, Yiseul Yoo, Hari Ramachandran, Kipil Lim, Peter M. Csernica, Tianyi Li, Xin Xu, Kyung Yoon Chung, Kathrin Michel, Joop E. Frerichs, William E. Gent, Raphaële J. Clément, Jungjin Park*, and William C. Chueh*. Eliminating lattice collapse in dopant-free LiNi0.9Mn0.1O2 cathodes via electrochemically induced partial cation disorder. Nat. Energy 11, 87–97 (2026).
Hari Ramachandran†, Edward W. Mu†, Eder G. Lomeli†, Augustin Braun, Masato Goto, Kuan H. Hsu, Jue Liu, Zhelong Jiang, Kipil Lim, Grace M. Busse, Brian Moritz, Joshua J. Kas, John Vinson, John J. Rehr, Jungjin Park, Iwnetim I. Abate, Yuichi Shimakawa, Edward I. Solomon, Wanli Yang, William E. Gent, Thomas P. Devereaux*, and William C. Chueh*. A formal FeIII/V redox couple in an intercalation electrode. Nat. Mater. 25, 91–99 (2026).
Jianbo Wang, Sofia K. Catalina, Xin Xu, Zhelong Jiang, Qin Tracy Zhou, William C. Chueh*, J. Tyler Mefford*. Cu substrate as a bi-directional kinetic promoter for high-efficiency four-electron Sn aqueous batteries. EES Batteries 1, 1557–1568 (2025).
Xueli Zheng†*, Zhichen Xue†*, Hongchang Hao, Yukio Cho, Yuanshun Li, Chanho Kim, Pawel Czaja, Samuel Sanghyun Lee, Sharon Bone, Eleanor Spielman-Sun, Zhelong Jiang, X. Wendy Gu, Johanna Nelson Weker, Guang Yang*, Jagjit Nanda*. Unravelling electro-chemo-mechanical interplay in layered oxide cathode degradation in solid-state batteries. Sci. Adv. 11, eady7189 (2025).T. Cui†*, S. Wang†, S. Lee, E. Barks, J. Cattermull, C. Melamed, Z. Jiang, L. Narun, Y.-K. Tzeng, S. H. Kim, X. Xu, G. McConohy, P. Wallace, A. C. Lee, X. Cui, J.- H. Lee, W. C. Chueh*, X. W. Gu*. Dendrite initiation and deflection in biaxially compressed solid electrolytes. ChemRxiv (2025) DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-33sl7
D. Eum†*, H. Ramachandran†, T. Sun†, Z. Jiang, S. S. Lee, H. Park, K. Jung, N. Liang, J.-H. Lee, Y.-K. Tzeng, Y. Liu*, and W. C. Chueh*. Uniform pore structure enables negligible degradation in undoped and uncoated Ni-rich cathodes. ChemRxiv (2025) DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-pp0x8
Emma Kaeli*, Zhelong Jiang, Xiaomian Yang, Emma P. K. L. Choy, Nicolas B. Liang, Edward Barks, Sunny Wang, Stephen Dongmin Kang*, and William C. Chueh*. Decoupling first-cycle capacity loss mechanisms in sulfide solid-state batteries. Energy Environ. Sci. 18, 1452–1463 (2025).Corson Chao, Shivani Srivastava, Ming Lei, Bachu S. Kumar, Varun Kamboj, Hari Ramachandran, Zhelong Jiang, Anirudh Adavi, Kevin H. Stone, Mark Asta, Lilia S. Xie*, Iwnetim I. Abate*. Electrochemically induced switching from antiferromagnetic spin-chain to frustrated spin-glass state in maple-leaf lattice Na2Mn3O7. arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2301.10399
Jianbo Wang†*, Sofia K. Catalina†, Zhelong Jiang, Xin Xu, Qin Tracy Zhou, William C. Chueh, and J. Tyler Mefford*. A reversible four-electron Sn metal aqueous battery. Joule 8, 3386–3396 (2024).
Grace M. Busse, Peter M. Csernica, Kipil Lim, Junghwa Lee, Zhelong Jiang, Diego F. Rivera, Young Jin Kim, David A. Shapiro, William E. Gent, and William C. Chueh*. Calcination heterogeneity in Li-rich layered oxides: a systematic study of Li2CO3 particle size. Chem. Mater. 35, 10658–10671 (2023).
Yinxing Ma†, Jiayu Wan†, Xin Xu†, Austin D. Sendek, Sarah E. Holmes, Brandi Ransom, Zhelong Jiang, Pu Zhang, Xin Xiao, Wenbo Zhang, Rong Xu, Fang Liu, Yusheng Ye, Emma Kaeli, Evan J. Reed*, William C. Chueh*, and Yi Cui*. Experimental discovery of a fast and stable lithium thioborate solid electrolyte, Li6+2x[B10S18]Sx (x≈1). ACS Energy Lett. 8, 2762–2771 (2023).
Shuqi Lai, Gaurav Chaudhary, Zhelong Jiang, Randy H. Ewoldt, and Paul V. Braun*. Chemical amplification of subthreshold base triggers to drive sol-gel transitions in polymers. ACS Mater. Lett. 4, 1503–1510 (2022).
Zhelong Jiang*, Jai Sharma, John S. Okasinski, Haiyan Chen, and Daniel P. Shoemaker*. In situ energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction of local phase dynamics during solvothermal growth of Cu4O3. J. Appl. Cryst. 54, 42–53 (2021).
Jai Sharma†, Zhelong Jiang†, Ankita Bhutani, Piush Behera, and Daniel P. Shoemaker*. A unique copper coordination structure with both mono- and bi-dentate ethylenediamine ligands. CrystEngComm 21, 2718–2726 (2019).
Pengcheng Sun†*, Jerome Davis III†, Luoxia Cao, Zhelong Jiang, John B. Cook, Hailong Ning, Jinyun Liu, Sanghyeon Kim, Feifei Fan, Ralph G. Nuzzo, and Paul V. Braun*. High capacity 3D structured tin-based electroplated Li-ion battery anodes. Energy Storage Mater. 17, 151–156 (2019).
Elizabeth A. Pogue*, Andre Sutrisno, Nicole E. Johnson, Melissa B. Goetter, Zhelong Jiang, Nicole E. Johnson, Daniel P. Shoemaker, and Angus A. Rockett. Phase stability and structural comparison of phases in the Cu-Zn-Sn-S system using solid-state NMR. Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 190, 37–48 (2019).
Insung Han, Zhelong Jiang, Clarina dela Cruz, Hong Zhang, Huaping Sheng, Ankita Bhutani, Dean J. Miller, and Daniel P. Shoemaker*. Accessing magnetic chalcogenides with solvothermal synthesis: KFeS2 and KFe2S3. J. Solid State Chem. 260, 1–6 (2018).
Zhelong Jiang, Arun Ramanathan, and Daniel P. Shoemaker*. In situ identification of kinetic factors that expedite inorganic crystal formation and discovery. J. Mater. Chem. C 5, 5709–5717 (2017).
Tsung-Han Tsai, Mohammad A. Ali, Zhelong Jiang, and Paul V. Braun*. Dynamic gradient directed molecular transport and concentration in hydrogel films. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 5001–5006 (2017).
Zhelong Jiang, Shiliang Tian, Shuqi Lai, Rebecca D. McAuliffe, Steven P. Rogers, Moonsub Shim, and Daniel P. Shoemaker*. Capturing phase evolution during solvothermal synthesis of metastable Cu4O3. Chem. Mater. 28, 3080–3089 (2016).
Yanyan Zhang, Zhelong Jiang, Jianying Huang, Linda Y. Lim, Wenlong Li, Jiyang Deng, Dangguo Gong, Yuxin Tang*, Yuekun Lai*, and Zhong Chen*. Titanate and titania nanostructured materials for environmental and energy applications: a review. RSC Adv. 5, 79479–79510 (2015).
Zhelong Jiang†, Yuxin Tang†*, Qiuling Tay, Yanyan Zhang, Oleksandr I. Malyi, Danping Wang, Jiyang Deng, Yuekun Lai, Huanfu Zhou, Xiaodong Chen, Zhili Dong, and Zhong Chen*. Understanding the role of nanostructures for efficient hydrogen generation on immobilized photocatalysts. Adv. Energy Mater. 3, 1368–1380 (2013).
Qiuling Tay, Xinfeng Liu, Yuxin Tang, Zhelong Jiang, Tze Chien Sum*, and Zhong Chen*. Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen production with synergistic two-phase anatase/brookite TiO2 nanostructures. J. Phys. Chem. C 117, 14973–14982 (2013).
Yuxin Tang†, Zhelong Jiang†, Guichuan Xing, Anran Li, Pushkar D. kanhere, Yanyan Zhang, Tze Chien Sum*, Shuzhou Li*, Xiaodong Chen, Zhili Dong*, and Zhong Chen*. Efficient Ag@AgCl cubic cage photocatalysts profit from ultrafast plasmon-induced electron transfer processes. Adv. Funct. Mater. 23, 2932–2940 (2013).
Sijing Xiong, Yuxin Tang, Huiyun Sheena Ng, Xinxin Zhao, Zhelong Jiang, Zhong Chen, Kee Woei Ng, and Say Chye Joachim Loo*. Specific surface area of titanium dioxide (TiO2) particles influences cyto- and photo-toxicity. Toxicology 304, 132–140 (2013).
Yuxin Tang†, Zhelong Jiang†, Qiuling Tay, Jiyang Deng, Yuekun Lai, Dangguo Gong, Zhili Dong*, and Zhong Chen*. Visible-light plasmonic photocatalyst anchored on titanate nanotubes: a novel nanohybrid with synergistic effects of adsorption and degradation. RSC Adv. 2, 9406–9414 (2012).
Yuxin Tang, Zhelong Jiang, Jiyang Deng, Dangguo Gong, Yuekun Lai, Han Teng Tay, Ivor Tan Kian Joo, Teck Hua Lau, Zhili Dong*, and Zhong Chen*. Synthesis of nanostructured silver/silver halides on titanium surfaces and their visible-light photocatalytic performance. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 4, 438–446 (2012).
