Yijin Liu Lab --- EnergY & Functional MateriaLs
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2024.01.18 Yijin presented a lecture at the Goodenough Energy Storage Lecture Series at UT Austin.
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2024.01.15 We warmly welcome Dr. Tianxiao Sun, previously a postdoc at HZB Germany, to join our group. Tianxiao will focus on battery characterization using synchrotron techniques.
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2024.01.08 We warmly welcome Mr. Wenlong Li from SJTU to join our group as a Ph.D. student.
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2023.12.01 Yijin presented an invited talk titled "Streamlined Data Curation and Mining for Synchrotron Multi-Modal Microscopic Study of Battery Materials" at the MRS fall meeting in Boston.
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2023.10.26 Yijin presented an invited talk at IEEE Electronics Packaging Society, Silicon Valley Chapter.
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2023.09.26-27 Yijin participated in the Roundtable: Battery Manufacturing Science in Accelerating Technology Translation from Lab to Market, Seattle and led the discussion on Industry-Academia collaborations with delegates from DOE, Industry, National Labs, and Universities.
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2023.09.11 Yijin presented an invited talk at SSRL's soft X-ray beamlines review. The use of soft x-ray tools for battery research was highlighted and we look forward to future collaborations.
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2023.08.03-04 Yijin presented an invited talk at the First Experiments Workshop for APS 19-ID ISN and 33-ID PtychoProbe Beamlines, Argonne National Laboratory.
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2023.08.01 Yijin started his new appointment as an Associate Professor at the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
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2023.07.20 Yijin concluded his nearly-15-years-long career as a Scientist at SLAC. It was quite a journey. We are proud of our achievements and look forward to the next steps.
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2023.07.05-10 Zhichen conducted experiments at HXN and FXI of NSLS-II.
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2023.06.06 Yijin presented an ECS webinar entitled "A micro-to-nano zoom through a real-world battery with x-ray vision".
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2023.04.20 We celebrate the 50th anniversary of SSRL at SLAC.
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2023.04.13 We celebrate the launch of SLAC/Stanford Battery Center at Stanford, CA.
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2023.04.12 We hosted Prof. Dave Mitlin at SLAC for his lecture at the Photon Science Seminar, Menlo Park, CA.
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2023.03.20 Yijin presented an invited talk at the Pittcon 2023 conference, Philadelphia, PA.
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2022.12.09 - 12.13 Bo, Dechao, and Zhichen conducted an experiment at NSLS-II of BNL. We had a great time at Long Island.
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2022.11.27 - 12.02 Yijin presented an invited talk at the MRS 2022 Fall Meeting in Boston.
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2022.11.15 Yijin visited Virginia Tech and presented a lecture in the Inorganic Chemistry Class.
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2022.09.26 - 09.28 Yijin participated in DOE's Energy Storage Grand Challenge Summit at Argonne National Lab.
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2022.09.15 Yijin visited Rice University and presented at the MSNE seminar.
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2022.09.12 We warmly welcome Dechao Meng from SJTU to join our group
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2022.07.25 We warmly welcome Bo Su from Zhangjiang Lab to join our group.
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2022.07.18 Yijin presented an invited talk at APS Scientific Computation Seminar Series.
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2022.05.29 - 06.02 Yijin presented three invited talks at the 241st ECS conference in Vancouver
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2022.03.30 Yijin presented an invited talk to the AI-guided Materials Thrust at Virginia Tech
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2022.01.03 We warmly welcome Zhichen Xue from Central South University to join our group.
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2021.11.11 Yijin Presented a virtual Guest lecture in Inorganic Chemistry class at the Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech.
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2021.11.06 Yijin presented a keynote talk at the First International on Energy Materials.
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2021.10.28 Yijin presented an invited talk entitled "A Macro-to-Nano Zoom through the Hierarchy of A Lithium-Ion Battery" at the Dalhousie Physics Department Seminar.
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2021.10.27 Yijin hosted Dr. Xuekun Lu's lecture entitled "Multiscale microstructural design and engineering of lithium-ion battery electrodes" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.09.24 Workshop on Synchrotron and Neutron Investigations of Deep subsurface Energy Systems, LCLS/SSRL Annual Users’ Meeting & Workshops, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
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2021.09.20 Workshop on Scientific Opportunities for Remote Access to User Facilities, LCLS/SSRL Annual Users’ Meeting & Workshops, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
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2021.08.25 Yijin hosted Dr. Gang Wan's lecture entitled "Dynamic Transformation To Tailor The Conversion Pathway" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.08.04 Yijin hosted Dr. Liyang Cui's lecture entitled "Mitochondrial copper depletion reprograms the metabolism of triple-negative breast cancer" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021. 07.28 Yijin hosted Prof. Feng Lin's lecture entitled "Nickel/cobalt-free battery chemistries" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.07.07 Yijin hosted Prof. Monica So's lecture entitled "Programmable Nanosponges for Next-Generation Solar Energy Conversion Technologies" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.06.11 Yijin presented an invited talk entitled "Multi-modal imaging of battery materials" at the CHEX workshop: energy storage and conversion at Advanced Photon Source.
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2021.06.09 Yijin hosted Prof. Kelsey Hatzell's lecture entitled "Synchrotron Characterization of Solid State Batteries" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.06.03 Yijin presented an invited talk at Symposium L08 - Electrochemical Studies by Synchrotron Techniques at the 239th ECS Meeting.
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2021.06.02 Yijin hosted Prof. Andrej Singer's lecture entitled "Non-equilibrium dynamics in functional materials" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.05.18 Yijin presented an invited talk entitled "An integrated Multi-modal X-ray Microscopy for a Macro-to-Nano Zoom through the hierarchy of Energy Materials" at PNNL. I thank Dr. Jie Xiao and Dr. Xiaolin Li for the invitation and look forward to future collaborations.
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2021.05.14 Yijin presented an invited talk at the workshop on Multi-scale X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy Imaging Using Multiple APS Beamlines at the 2021 APS/CNM users meeting.
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2021.05.12 Yijin hosted Prof. Yifei Mo's lecture entitled "Computation Accelerated Design of Materials and Interfaces for Solid-State Batteries" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.05.05 Yijin hosted Prof. Liangzhong Xiang's lecture entitled "X-ray induced acoustic computed tomography (XACT)" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.04.30 Yijin presented an invited talk entitled "A macro-to-nano zoom through the hierarchy of a lithium-ion battery" at the MSNE Seminar Series at the MSNE Department at Rice University.
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2021.04.28 Yijin hosted Prof. Xin Li's lecture entitled "Mechanical Constriction Design for Advanced Performance of Solid-state Batteries" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.04.23 Yijin presented an invited talk entitled "A macro-to-nano zoom through the hierarchy of a lithium-ion battery and beyond" at the “Highlands in Chemistry” seminar series at the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Tech.
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2021.04.21 Yijin presented an invited talk entitled "Cationic and Anionic Redox Heterogeneity in Layered Battery Cathode" at the Symposium ST05—Mechanics of Energy Storage Materials at the 2021 Virtual MRS Spring Meeting.
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2021.04.21 Yijin hosted Prof. Yan Yao's lecture entitled "All-solid-state lithium batteries: materials, processing and diagnosis" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.04.14 Yijin hosted Prof. Iryna Zenyuk's lecture entitled "Understanding the Birth of the Catalyst during Pyrolysis Using Synchrotron X-rays" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.03.31 Yijin hosted Prof. Jordi Cabana's lecture entitled "Does Mg2+ reversibly intercalate into transition metal oxides?" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.03.25 Yijin hosted Dr. Xiaolin Li's lecture entitled "Understanding the bulk and Interphase structure in advanced Li-ion batteries and beyond" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.03.18 Yijin presented a talk entitled "From cross-beamline/facility multi-modal imaging to TXM ghost imaging and beyond" at the SSRL Staff Scientist Seminar.
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2021.03.17 Yijin hosted Prof. Yiyang Li's lecture entitled "Electrochemical memory for low-energy computing" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.03.10 Yijin hosted Prof. Matt McDowell's lecture entitled "Operando X-ray Tomography of Solid-State Batteries" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.03.08 Guannan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Single-crystal Ni-rich layered oxide cathode materials: synthesis, failure analysis, and structural modifications". Congratulations!
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2021.03.03 Yijin hosted Prof. Yuan Yang's lecture entitled "Material Characterizations and Designs for Energy Storage and Thermal Management" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2021.02.23 Yijin presented a talk entitled "System control and data reduction for nano-resolution spectro-tomography at SSRL" at the Virtual workshop on X-ray Tomography at Synchrotron Facilities - Pipeline for data acquisition and reduction.
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2021.02.11 Yijin presented a talk entitled "Improving Batteries from the Atoms Up" at SLAC's Public Lecture series.
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2021.01.27 We proudly present our paper entitled "Understanding the Mesoscale Degradation in Nickel-Rich Cathode Materials through Machine-Learning-Revealed Strain–Redox Decoupling", which is now published in ACS Energy Letters. Congrats to all our co-authors!
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2020.12.11 We proudly present our paper entitled "Depth-dependent valence stratification driven by oxygen redox in lithium-rich layered oxide", which is now published in Nature Communications. Congrats to all our co-authors!
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2020.12.03 We proudly present our paper entitled "Operando tailoring of defects and strains in corrugated β-Ni(OH)2 nanosheets for stable and high-rate energy storage", which is now published in Advanced Materials. Congrats to all our co-authors!
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2020.10.30 Yijin presented an invited webinar to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston. We thank Prof. Shuo Chen for the invitation.
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2020.10.29 Yijin participated in the Advanced Light Source's 2020 RIXS group retreat outreach forum: Imaging Spectroscopy. We thank Dr. Wanli Yang for the invitation.
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2020.10.26 Yijin presented an invited talk to our colleagues at Enovix Corporation.
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2020.10.22 Yijin presented a guest lecture to Prof. Feng Lin's class at Virginia Tech.
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2020.10.09 Yijin presented an invited talk entitled "Cationic and anionic redox stratification in lithium-rich battery cathode" at the workshop on Resonant Elastic and Inelastic X-ray Scattering applications for Quantum and Energy Materials: Transition-Edge-Sensor (TES) Applications during the SSRL/LCLS Users Meeting 2020.
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2020.10.08 Yijin organized the virtual Functional X-ray Imaging Workshop during the SSRL/LCLS Users Meeting 2020. We thank our speakers, including Dr. Peter Cloetens, Dr. David Shapiro, Prof. Huolin Xin, Dr. Dula Parkinson, Dr. Sharon Bone, Dr. Junjing Deng, Dr. Esther Tai, and Dr. Tiffany Victor, for participating.
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2020.09.16 Yijin hosted Dr. Junjing Deng's lecture entitled "Towards high-speed high-resolution X-ray ptychography" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2020.09.07 We proudly present our paper entitled "Mutual modulation between surface chemistry and bulk microstructure within individual secondary particles of Nickel-rich layered oxides," which is now published in Nat. Commun. Congrats to all our co-authors! We are thankful for being highlighted by SLAC and featured by Nature Communications Editors’ Highlights of recent research on Energy Materials.
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2020.08.29 Yijin presented an invited talk at the YOSIA webinar organized by the Future Forum. Here is the recorded video of the entire webinar, including a roundtable discussion and a Q&A session. Yijin enjoyed the discussion with Dr. Hua Zhou (ANL), Prof. Hong Wang (SJTU), Prof. Jiamian Hu (UW–Madison), Dr. Miao Liu (IOP), Prof. Wanjian Yin (Soochow University) with a focused theme on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in material science.
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2020.08.25 Yijin now serves on the Proposal Review Committee (PRC) of the Canadian Light Source.
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2020.08.11 We proudly present our paper entitled "Hierarchical Defect Engineering for LiCoO2 through Low-Solubility Trace Element Doping," which is not published in Chem. Congrats to all our co-authors! We look forward to continuing our productive collaboration with our colleagues at IOP and BNL.
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2020.07.15 Yijin hosted Dr. Yu Lin's lecture entitled "Facile Diamond Synthesis From Diamondoids" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2020.06.23 Chenxi defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled "Research on X-ray Spectro-microscopy and its applications on Li-ion batteries". Congratulations!
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2020.05.28 Zhisen defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Research on Synchrotron-based X-ray Imaging Technologies and Their Applications on Lithium-ion Batteries". Congratulations!
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2020.05.27 Shaofeng defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Structure Regulation and Electrochemical Performance of Carbon Coupled Nickel-Based Materials" online via Zoom. Congratulations!
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2020.05.20 Yijin hosted Dr. Donal Finegan's lecture entitled "High-speed X-ray diagnostics of Li-ion batteries" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2020.05.08 We proudly present our paper entitled "Machine-learning-revealed statistics of the particle-carbon/binder detachment in lithium-ion battery cathodes", which is now published in Nature Communications. Congrats to all our co-authors! We are thankful for being highlighted jointly by SLAC and ESRF. This paper is also chosen as the Nature Communication Editors’ Highlights on recent research on Energy Materials.
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2020.05.01 Yijin is now a Lead Scientist at SLAC. We will continue to pursue frontier research in energy material science, dynamic science, and data science.
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2020.04.30 Our paper entitled “High-voltage Charging Induced Strain, Heterogeneity, and Micro-cracks in Secondary Particles of a Nickel-rich Layered Cathode Material” is recognized as a top-downloaded paper 2018-2019 in Adv. Func. Mater., Wiley. Congrats to all our co-authors.
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2020.04.29 Yijin hosted Prof. Kejie Zhao's lecture entitled "Mechanical reliability of Li-ion batteries: Operando experiments and theoretical modeling" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2020.04.22 Yijin presented an invited talk at the MRS webinar, featuring the April 2020 issue of MRS Bulletin with a focused theme on nanoscale tomography using x-rays and electrons.
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2020.04.22 Yijin hosted Dr. Enyuan Hu's lecture entitled "Advancing lithium-ion battery with insight from synchrotron characterization" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar.
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2020.04.17 Yijin presented a lecture in our joint group meeting with Prof. Feng Lin's team at Virginia Tech and Prof. Kejie Zhao's team at Purdue.
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2020.04.15 Yijin hosted Dr. Xiaojing Huang's lecture entitled "Multi-modal and multi-scale imaging with nano-focus X-rays" at SLAC's online Photon Science Seminar
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2020.04.09 We proudly present our review article entitled "High-dimensional and high-resolution x-ray tomography for energy materials science", which is now published in MRS bulletin. Congrats to all our co-authors!
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2020.04.07 Our manuscript entitled "Hybrid real- and reciprocal-space full-field imaging with coherent illumination" is now live on arXiv. Congrats to all our co-authors!
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2020.04.03 Prof. Kejie Zhao presented a lecture in our joint group meeting with Prof. Feng Lin's team at Virginia Tech and Prof. Kejie Zhao's team at Purdue.
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2020.03.18 Juanjuan concluded her 4-months project with us at SSRL and returned to the Technische Universität München (TUM). We wish her all the best in her future career pursuits. We also look forward to continuing our collaboration on the development of the spectro-imaging capability for an inverse Compton source.
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2020.02.24 Zhisen concluded his 18-months project with us at SSRL and returned to Sichuan University. We are proud of his achievements and wish him all the best in his future career pursuits.
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2020.02.19 We proudly present our paper entitled "Operando revealing dynamic reconstruction of NiCo carbonate hydroxide for high-rate energy storage", which is now published in Joule. Congrats to all our co-authors!
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2020.02.14 Yijin and Piero visited Dr. Wenbing Yun at the Sigray Inc.
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2020.02.06 Our work entitled "Quantification of Heterogeneous Degradation in Li‐Ion Batteries" [Adv. Energy Mater. 1900674, (2019)] is selected as ESRF highlights 2019. We look forward to continuing our work at ESRF, in particular with the exciting EBS upgrade!
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2020.01.08 We proudly present our paper entitled "Charge distribution guided by grain crystallographic orientations in polycrystalline battery materials", which is now published in Nature Communications. Congrats to all our co-authors!
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2019.12.25 We proudly present our paper entitled "Revealing the Inhomogeneous Surface Chemistry on the Spherical Layered Oxide Polycrystalline Cathode Particles", which is now published in Chinese Physics B. Congrats to all our co-authors!
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2019.12.24 We proudly present our paper entitled "Thermal stress-induced charge and structure heterogeneity in emerging cathode materials", which is now published in Materials Today. Congrats to all our co-authors!
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2019.12.12 Yijin presented an invited talk entitled "An integrated multi-modal x-ray microscopy for energy material science" at the Electrochemical Society San Francisco Section meeting. The team also visited the Advanced Light Source and the Energy Technologies Area at LBL. We are thankful to Drs. Gao Liu and Wanli Yang for hosting our group at LBL.
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2019.12.03 Shaofeng presented an invited talk at the symposium on the Chemomechanical and Interfacial Challenges in Energy Storage and Conversion—Batteries and Fuel Cells at the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston.
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2019.12.02 We warmly welcome Ms. Juanjuan Huang and Mr. Guannan Qian to join our group.
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2019.11.28 Yijin presented an invited talk at the International Symposium on Synchrotron Application in the Materials Industry - Next Generation Battery at Pohang Accelerator Laboratory.
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2019.11.13 Shaofeng presented a poster at the Bay Area Battery Summit 2019 at SLAC.
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2019.11.06 Yijin participated in the "CAMERA Workshop: Algorithms and Software for Tomographic Reconstruction for Beamlines" at LBL.
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2019.10.18 Yijin organized the Symposium on Frontiers in Synchrotron Science at SLAC. Over 80 researchers attended this event and celebrated Prof. Piero Pianetta's 70th birthday and his broad contribution to synchrotron science and technology.
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2019.10.09 Yijin conducted an FEL experiment at SACLA with Drs. Jun-Sik Lee (SSRL), Hoyong Jang (PAL-XFEL), Sanghoon Song (LCLS), as well as Prof. Nojiri sensei of Tohoku University.
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2019.10.03 Yijin presented an invited talk at the workshop entitled "Challenges and Opportunities for Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy of Interfaces and Bulk Materials for Energy Applications" at the Advanced Light Source 2019 User Meeting.
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2019.09.25 We warmly welcome Ms. Jin Zhang to join our group. We look forward to strengthening our collaboration with Dr. Qingxi Yuan of BSRF/IHEP.
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2019.09.23-28 Shaofeng, Zhisen, and Yijin conducted a hard x-ray nanoprobe experiment at the HXN beamline of NSLS-II at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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2019.09.22 Chenxi concluded her 2-years project with us at SSRL and returned to USTC. We wish her all the best in her future career pursuits.
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2019.09.19 Yijin Presented a talk entitled "An Integrated Synchrotron Imaging Approach for Energy Material Science" at the SSRL Staff Scientist Seminar.
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2019.09.01 We warmly welcome Mr. Guibin Zan to join our group. We look forward to strengthening our collaboration with Dr. Wenbin Yun of Sigray Inc. through this opportunity.
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2019.08.22 Yanshuai concluded his 3-months project with us at SSRL and returned to IOP. We wish him all the best in his future career pursuits.
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2019.08.16 We warmly welcome Dr. Chaonan Wang to join our group.
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2019.08.12 We warmly welcome Dr. Xiaoqian Fu joining our group.
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2019.07.30 Yijin Presented an invited talk entitled "Multi-Modal Correlative X-Ray Microscopy for Energy Science" at the 2019 Gordon Research Conference (X-Ray Science).
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2019.07.09 We proudly present our paper entitled "Surface-to-bulk redox coupling through thermally-driven Li redistribution in Li- and Mn-rich layered cathode materials", which is now published in JACS. We highlight the synergistic effort from the x-ray team, battery team, and TES detector team.
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2019.07.05 Yijin presented a talk entitled "Thermally-driven oxygen evolution in anion-active battery cathode revealed by TES RIXS" at the VUVX 19 conference.
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2019.06.17 We proudly present our paper entitled "Trace doping of multiple elements enables stable battery cycling of LiCoO2 at 4.6 V", which is now published in Nature Energy. We gratefully thank all the co-authors for their contributions. We also highlight the leadership of Prof. Hong Li and Prof. Xiqian Yu of IOP in this collaborative effort.
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2019.06.03 Yijin presented a talk at the workshop on "Time- and Space-Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) at SSRL: Analysis of Large Data Sets"
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2019.06.01 Yijin presented a keynote speech entitled "Information mining in synchrotron microscopy for energy science" at the 9th Annual Conference of Stanford Chinese Visiting Scholars.
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2019.05.28 We proudly present our paper entitled "Quantification of Heterogeneous Degradation in Li-ion Batteries", which is now published in Advanced Energy Materials. Congrats to all authors. We are also grateful to the communication team for featuring our research jointly at SSRL, SLAC, Purdue, Virginia Tech, and ESRF.
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2019.05.27 Shaofeng, Yanshuai, Chenxi, and Zhisen conducted a soft x-ray nanoprobe experiment at beamline 13-1 of SSRL.
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2019.05.25 We set up our website for the first time.
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2019.05.22 We warmly welcome Mr. Yanshuai Hong to join our group. We look forward to strengthening our collaboration with Dr. Xiqian Yu's group at IOP.
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2019.05.21 Yijin presented an invited talk at the workshop entitled "Data Challenges and Frontier of Analysis Techniques in X-ray Microscopy" at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Yijin enjoyed the fruitful discussions with Drs. Xiao-Qing Yang, Enyuan Hu, and Xianghui Xiao.