Group News 2017
171201 Our flow battery research was featured as a top story in Logan Herald Journal News.
https://news.hjnews.com/education/usu-professor-works-to-improve-battery-efficiency-for-applications
171201 Bo's paper entitled "Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction Catalyzed by Nitrogenase MoFe and FeFe Proteins", was accepted by Bioelectrochemistry. Congratulations! This is a collaborative article with Lance's group.
171130 Bo's JMCA and Cam's Chem papers were featured in Utah State Today, "Don't Resist! USU Chemists Advance Emerging Battery Technology".
Check it out: https://www.usu.edu/today/index.cfm?id=57258
171122 Jian's paper entitled "A π-Conjugation Extended Viologen as Novel Two-Electron Storage Anolyte for Total Organic Aqueous Redox Flow Battery" was accepted by Angewandte. Congratulations! A perfect Thanksgiving gift to the group!
171122 Cam and Bo's Chem article was pusblised online. Cheers! The article was also featured on the homepage of the Chem journal website!
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2017.11.001
http://www.cell.com/chem/home
171104 Leo attended the 2017 Scialog Conference on Advanced Energy Storage in Tucson, AZ. It was a great pleasure to meet old friends and make new fiends. First time to see giant cactuses!
171030 Bo's paper entitled "Boosting Energy Efficiency and Power performance of Neutral Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries" was featured as the front cover story in JMCA. Congratulations!
171028 Yujin's paper entitled "Chemistry and Electrochemical Performance of Mg Electrolytes for Rechargeable Mg Batteries: A Study of Mg Powder Scavenger", was accepted by ECS Trans. Congratulations!
171026 Jian's paper "Unraveling pH Dependent Cycling Stability of Ferricyanide/Ferrocyanide in Redox Flow Batteries", was accepted by Nano Energy. Congratulations!
Doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.10.057
170929 Cam got Chem! What a wonderful and timely wedding gift for Cam! Congratulations!
170829 Bo's paper entitled "Boosting Energy Efficiency and Power performance of Neutral Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries" was accepted by Journal of the Materials Chemistry A. Congratulations!
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/ta/c7ta06573f#!divAbstract
170810 Professor Bing Yuan from Qingdao University of Science and Technology joined us as a visiting scholar. Welcome!
170801 Bo received the Utah Energy Research Triangle Student Award from the Office of Energy of the Utah State government to support his research on redox flow batteries. Good job and congratulations!
170801 Leo received the Utah Energy Research Triangle Faculty Award from the Office of Energy of the Utah State government to support our research on new cathode materials for Li ion batteries. We appreciate very much for the opportunity! Congratulations!
http://energy.utah.gov/utah-energy-research-triangle/
170718 Our group attended the inaugural UU/USU Energy Workshop at University of Utah. What a fruitful meeting!
170601 Leo was selected as the 2017 Scialog Fellow on Advanced Energy Storage by Research Corporation. Thanks for the honor!
http://rescorp.org/scialog/advanced-energy-storage
170518 Our research on Mg batteries was highlighted by Utah State Today, check it out!
http://www.usu.edu/today/index.cfm?id=56761&nl=522
170515 Two Native American freshmen students, Travis Davis and Darnell Eskeets, from the USU Blanding campus joined us for one week research adventure! Welcome!
170515 Grant Grover from Weber State University joined us for his summer research internship ! Welcome!
170504 Leo gave an invited presentation on grid scale energy storage at the 2017 Governor's Energy Summit".
170425 Our paper on Mg electrolytes entitled "Tertiary Mg/MgCl2/AlCl3 Inorganic Mg2+ Electrolytes with Unprecedented Electrochemical Performance for Reversible Mg Deposition", a sister paper to the early JMCA paper , was accepted by ACS Energy Letters. Congratulations to Jian and ShuiJian. [DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b0026]
170412 Cam gave an USU Ignite talk on his redox flow battery project. Great job! Check out this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3cm4Yxugyk
170408 Our paper on Mg electrolytes entitled "MgCl2/AlCl3 Electrolytes for Reversible Mg Deposition/Stripping: Electrochemical Conditioning or not?" was accepted by Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Congratulations to Shujian and Jian. [DOI: 10.1039/C7TA01769C]
170402 Our JACS paper [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b10984] on the FcNCl/MV AORFB was highlighted in an ACIE highlight article. Check it out! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201701254/abstract
170402 Leo attended the ACS Spring meeting in San Fransisco. Nice to meet old friends. Congratulations to Marcetta's ACS Organometallics Award!
170228 Leo gave a department seminar in the department of chemistry at Washington State University. It was nice to meet up old friends. Also, thanks for the lecture gift!
170225 Our undergraduate researchers, Zayn and Creighton will attend graduate school at University of Utah (Shelly Minteer group) and Washington State University (Qiang Zhang group), respectively. Congratulations and keep rocking!
170124 Our undergraduate research was featured on Utah State Today! www.usu.edu/today/?id=56445
170118 Leo delivered a webinar lecture for the USU SELECT center.
170116 USTAR director, Ivy Estabrooke, and energy sector manager, Andrew Sweeney, visited our lab. Thanks being our sponsor!
170113 We received the competitive USTAR UTAG award to develop Mg batteries! Congratulations!
ustar.org/ustar-announces-20-utag-awardees-from-five-utah-universities/
utahpulse.com/index.php/features/technology/4853-ustar-announces-20-utag-awardees-from-five-utah-universities
https://news.hjnews.com/education/usu-professor-works-to-improve-battery-efficiency-for-applications
171201 Bo's paper entitled "Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction Catalyzed by Nitrogenase MoFe and FeFe Proteins", was accepted by Bioelectrochemistry. Congratulations! This is a collaborative article with Lance's group.
171130 Bo's JMCA and Cam's Chem papers were featured in Utah State Today, "Don't Resist! USU Chemists Advance Emerging Battery Technology".
Check it out: https://www.usu.edu/today/index.cfm?id=57258
171122 Jian's paper entitled "A π-Conjugation Extended Viologen as Novel Two-Electron Storage Anolyte for Total Organic Aqueous Redox Flow Battery" was accepted by Angewandte. Congratulations! A perfect Thanksgiving gift to the group!
171122 Cam and Bo's Chem article was pusblised online. Cheers! The article was also featured on the homepage of the Chem journal website!
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2017.11.001
http://www.cell.com/chem/home
171104 Leo attended the 2017 Scialog Conference on Advanced Energy Storage in Tucson, AZ. It was a great pleasure to meet old friends and make new fiends. First time to see giant cactuses!
171030 Bo's paper entitled "Boosting Energy Efficiency and Power performance of Neutral Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries" was featured as the front cover story in JMCA. Congratulations!
171028 Yujin's paper entitled "Chemistry and Electrochemical Performance of Mg Electrolytes for Rechargeable Mg Batteries: A Study of Mg Powder Scavenger", was accepted by ECS Trans. Congratulations!
171026 Jian's paper "Unraveling pH Dependent Cycling Stability of Ferricyanide/Ferrocyanide in Redox Flow Batteries", was accepted by Nano Energy. Congratulations!
Doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.10.057
170929 Cam got Chem! What a wonderful and timely wedding gift for Cam! Congratulations!
170829 Bo's paper entitled "Boosting Energy Efficiency and Power performance of Neutral Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries" was accepted by Journal of the Materials Chemistry A. Congratulations!
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/ta/c7ta06573f#!divAbstract
170810 Professor Bing Yuan from Qingdao University of Science and Technology joined us as a visiting scholar. Welcome!
170801 Bo received the Utah Energy Research Triangle Student Award from the Office of Energy of the Utah State government to support his research on redox flow batteries. Good job and congratulations!
170801 Leo received the Utah Energy Research Triangle Faculty Award from the Office of Energy of the Utah State government to support our research on new cathode materials for Li ion batteries. We appreciate very much for the opportunity! Congratulations!
http://energy.utah.gov/utah-energy-research-triangle/
170718 Our group attended the inaugural UU/USU Energy Workshop at University of Utah. What a fruitful meeting!
170601 Leo was selected as the 2017 Scialog Fellow on Advanced Energy Storage by Research Corporation. Thanks for the honor!
http://rescorp.org/scialog/advanced-energy-storage
170518 Our research on Mg batteries was highlighted by Utah State Today, check it out!
http://www.usu.edu/today/index.cfm?id=56761&nl=522
170515 Two Native American freshmen students, Travis Davis and Darnell Eskeets, from the USU Blanding campus joined us for one week research adventure! Welcome!
170515 Grant Grover from Weber State University joined us for his summer research internship ! Welcome!
170504 Leo gave an invited presentation on grid scale energy storage at the 2017 Governor's Energy Summit".
170425 Our paper on Mg electrolytes entitled "Tertiary Mg/MgCl2/AlCl3 Inorganic Mg2+ Electrolytes with Unprecedented Electrochemical Performance for Reversible Mg Deposition", a sister paper to the early JMCA paper , was accepted by ACS Energy Letters. Congratulations to Jian and ShuiJian. [DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b0026]
170412 Cam gave an USU Ignite talk on his redox flow battery project. Great job! Check out this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3cm4Yxugyk
170408 Our paper on Mg electrolytes entitled "MgCl2/AlCl3 Electrolytes for Reversible Mg Deposition/Stripping: Electrochemical Conditioning or not?" was accepted by Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Congratulations to Shujian and Jian. [DOI: 10.1039/C7TA01769C]
170402 Our JACS paper [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b10984] on the FcNCl/MV AORFB was highlighted in an ACIE highlight article. Check it out! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201701254/abstract
170402 Leo attended the ACS Spring meeting in San Fransisco. Nice to meet old friends. Congratulations to Marcetta's ACS Organometallics Award!
170228 Leo gave a department seminar in the department of chemistry at Washington State University. It was nice to meet up old friends. Also, thanks for the lecture gift!
170225 Our undergraduate researchers, Zayn and Creighton will attend graduate school at University of Utah (Shelly Minteer group) and Washington State University (Qiang Zhang group), respectively. Congratulations and keep rocking!
170124 Our undergraduate research was featured on Utah State Today! www.usu.edu/today/?id=56445
170118 Leo delivered a webinar lecture for the USU SELECT center.
170116 USTAR director, Ivy Estabrooke, and energy sector manager, Andrew Sweeney, visited our lab. Thanks being our sponsor!
170113 We received the competitive USTAR UTAG award to develop Mg batteries! Congratulations!
ustar.org/ustar-announces-20-utag-awardees-from-five-utah-universities/
utahpulse.com/index.php/features/technology/4853-ustar-announces-20-utag-awardees-from-five-utah-universities
