Recent News

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: 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.