Recent News
08/2022: Prof. Teng has received an NSF-DMR grant to study anion-hosting materials.
08/2022: Prof. Teng has received an NSF EAGER grant to study iron redox process.
08/2022: Congratulations to Xiaoqiang Shan and SaeWon Kim for their work "Local structure and ion storage properties of vanadate cathode materials regulated by the pre-alkalization" which has been accepted as an article in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
07/2022: Dr. Teng's research grup moved to Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
06/2022: Congratulations to Fenghua Guo for his work "Revitalizing Iron Redox by Anion-Insertion-Assisted Ferro- and Ferri-Hydroxides Conversion at Low Alkalinity" has been accepted as a communication for the Journal of the American Chemical Society with a supplementary front cover!
10/2021: Congratulations to Fenghua Guo for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. Well done, Dr. Guo!
10/2021: Congratulations to Xiaoqiang Shan and SaeWon Kim for their work "Exemption of Lattice Collapse in Ni-MnO2 Birnessite Regulated by the Structural Water Mobility" which has been accepted as communication in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
05/2021: Prof. Teng has been invited to serve on the 3-year review panel on High Energy Diffraction Proposal at the National Synchrotron Light Source-II at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
04/2021: Prof. Teng has been invited to serve as a panelist in NH Energy Week New & Emerging Technology event
04/2021: Congratulations to Dan Charles, Fenghua Guo, Xiaoqiang Shan, and SaeWon Kim for their collaborative work "Dual-stage K-ion intercalation in V2O5-conductive polymer composites" has been accepted as a full article in Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and their artwork has been selected as a Back-Cover.
03/2021: Dr. Teng is named the "Innovation of the Month".
02/2021: Congratulations to SaeWon Kim and Xiaoqiang Shan for the work "High-Capacity Aqueous Storage in Vanadate Cathodes Promoted by the Zn-Ion and Proton Intercalation and Conversion–Intercalation of Vanadyl Ions" has been accepted as a full article in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, and their artwork has been selected as a Supplementary Front Cover.
12/2020: Congratulations to Xiaoqiang Shan and SaeWon Kim for the work "Potentiodynamics of the Zinc and Proton Storage in Disordered Sodium Vanadate for Aqueous Zn-Ion Batteries" has been accepted as a full article in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, and their artwork has been selected as a Front Cover.
10/2020: Prof. Teng gives an invited talk at the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern Florida.
09/2020: Prof. Teng has received UNH Research Office Collaborative Research Excellence (CORE) Award for studying Zinc-ion batteries.
09/2020: Prof. Teng gives an invited talk at the School of Chemical Engineering at the Oklahoma State University
04/2020: Prof. Teng has taken the position of the Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department.
04/2020: Prof. Teng gives an invited talk at the Department of Chemistry at University of North Texas.
10/2019: Congratulations to Xiaoqiang Shan, Fenghua Guo and Daniel Charles for their work "Structural Water and Disordered Structure Promote Aqueous Sodium-Ion Energy Storage in Sodium-Birnessite" has been published in Nature Communications.
10/2019: Congratulations to Xiaoqiang Shan and Fenghua Guo for the work "Framework Doping of Ni Enhances Pseudocapacitive Na-ion Storage of (Ni)MnO2 Layered Birnessite" has been accepted as a full article in Chemistry of Materials.
06/2019: Daniel Charles, Fenghua Guo, Tongxin Zhou and SaeWon Kim did poster presentations at 2019 Neutron Scattering User Meeting at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
05/2019: Congratulations to Guangxing Yang for his work "Conversion of Ethanol via C-C Splitting on Noble Metal Surfaces in Room-temperature Liquid-phase" has been accepted as a communication for the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
05/2019: We welcome Adithi Jagannadhan, a Chemical Engineering Junior from University of Michigan, joined our group for the summer research.
05/2019: SaeWon Kim and Tongxin Zhou delivered a jointed presentation at the UNH Advanced Manufacturing Day on our prototyping aqueous battery research.
05/2019: Daniel Charles and Fenghua Guo did poster presentations at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-ll) and Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) Users' Meeting at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
02/2019: Our group has conducted the first x-ray absorptioin experiment at the newly developed XAS beamline (6-BM-B) at National Synchrotron Light Source II at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
11/2018: Our group has conducted the first x-ray scattering experiment at the newly developed PDF beamline (ID-28-1) at National Synchrotron Light Source II at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
10/2018: Dr. Teng gave an invited talk at AIChE Meeting 2018 at Pittsburgh, PA on the electro-oxidation of ethanol.
08/2018: Prof. Teng has received a $200,000 Partnerships for Innovation-Technology Translation (PFI-TT) grant from NSF for prototyping and commercialization of vanadium oxide based aqueous eletrochemical energy storage technology.
08/2018: Welcome two 1st year Ph.D students SaeWon Kim and Tongxin Zhou joining Prof. Teng's research group.
07/2018: Prof. Teng has received a three-year DOE grant to study the electrode-electrolyte interphase for aqueous eletrochemical energy storage. This project is supported by Basic Energy Sciences Core Program in Material Chemistry.
07/2018: Congratulations to Daniel Charles who has successfully finished his Ph.D thesis defense on the studies of hydrated and disordered vanadium oxide materials for aqueous K-ion electrochemical energy storage.
06/2018: Prof. Teng has been promoted to Full Professor.
06/2018: Congratulations to Xiaoqiang Shan who has successfully finished his Ph.D thesis defense on the studies of manganese oxide materials for aqueous Na-ion electrochemical energy storage.
05/2018: Prof. Teng gives an invited talk at 2018 American Conference on Neutron Scattering titled: "Neutron and X-Ray Studies of Bi-phase Cobalt-Manganese Oxide for Aqueous Sodium-Ion Electrochemical Energy Storage".
05/2018: Congratulations to Guangxing Yang who has won Best Poster Award for his work on electro-kinetic study of ethanol oxidation in New England Catalysis Society Meeting.
04/2018: Congratulations to Guangxing Yang who has successfully finished his Ph.D thesis defense on kinetic studies of electro-oxidation of ethanol using Pt/Rh/Sn catalysts.
01/2018: Congratulations to Fenghua Guo for his work "Enhancing pseudocapacitive process for energy storage devices: analyzing the charge transport using electro-kinetic study and numerical modelling" has been accepted for the publication as a book chapter. The focus of this work is on the numerical modelling of charge-storage process for pseudocapactive materials. This is a collaborative work with Dr. Niva Gupta.
01/2018: Dr. Teng gave an invited talk at South China University of Technology at Guangzhuo, China.
01/2018: Dr. Teng gave an invited talk at "Nature Confernce-Materials Electrochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications" at Shenzhen, China on "Understanding the Atomic Interaction between Electrode and Electrolyte for Aqueous Electrochemical Energy Storage".
11/2017: Congratulations to Xiaoqiang Shan for being awarded "Best Poster Award" in Material Research Society (MRS) 2017 Fall Meeting at Boston. The title of his poster is "Bivalence Mn5O8 with Hydroxylated Interphase for High-Voltage Aqueous Sodium-Ion Storage".
10/2017: Our work on "Bi-phase Cobalt-Manganese Oxide with High Capacity and Rate Performance for Aqueous Sodium-ion Electrochemical Energy Storage" has been published in Advanced Functional Materials as a full-paper. Congratulations to Xiaoqiang Shan & Daniel Charles.
08/2017: Dr. Teng gave an invited talk at American Chemical Society Meeting 2017 at Washington DC on "Enhancing the C-C splitting kinetics during the electro-oxidation of ethanol"
08/2017: Guangxing Yang gave an oral presentation and a poster presentation at American Chemical Society Meeting 2017 at Washington DC on ethanol oxidation reaction and ethanol aqueous conversion.
08/2017: Dr. Teng gave an oral presentation at Advanced Functional Materials 2017 Meeting at UCLA.
7/2017: Our work on "Influence of *OH adsorbates on the potentiodynamics of the CO2 generation during the electro-oxidation of ethanol" has been accepted for the publication in Journal of Catalysis as a full-paper. Congratulations to Guangxing Yang.
06/2017: Congratulation to Fenghua Guo, who has successfully passed the PhD qualification written exam.
06/2017: Our research traveled to Worcester Polytech Institute for Energy Research Forum. Several group memembers have made oral and poster presentations
05/2017: Daniel Charles, Xiaoqiang Shan and Guangxing Yang each gave a poster presentation at National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS)/Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) 2017 User Meeting at the Brookhave National Laboratory.
05/2017: Dr. Teng received a three-year NSF grant to study the electrochemical reforming of ethanol for hydrogen production.
