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#Faraday2023. I’m presenting a poster at the Faraday Institution Conference 2023. 11-13 September, University of Birmingham. Driving towards sustainable electrification of the UK. Faraday Institution Uni of Birmingham

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.

The very first work from my PhD project UoBChemistry is now online ACSEnergyLett. Monitoring the Local Coordination Evolutions in Li-Rich Cathode Materials via In Situ Raman Spectroscopy | ACS Energy Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Thrilled to say that I have just passed my PhD viva UoBChemistry! Thanks to the great examiners Armstrong Group and Peter Slater for instructive discussions! Thanks to my supervisors Dr Phoebe Allan, Josh Makepeace and also advisors SUSTech 南方科技大学 during this journey!

ET7 has been my dream car for a while. Need to get one some day😁

First and really nice RIXS experience at I21 Diamond Light Source with Dominic Gardner and Dr Wilgner (Will). Appreciated for the great support from Dr Sahil Tippireddy.

Join us and our amazing speakers for the Birmingham Sustainability and Mechanochemistry Symposium (UoBChemistry) from May 20th-22nd. Registration is free! 🥳 Resonant Acoustic Mixing workshop from Resodyn Acoustic Mixers! Register your poster before 10th May! uobsustmech.weebly.com/registration.h…

We're hiring! If you're interested in applying your skills in battery science and solid state chemistry to an exciting new family of solid electrolyte materials, we'd love to hear from you. jobs.ac.uk/job/DHH579/res…

Excited to share our recent work out in The Journal of Physical Chemistry letters demonstrating how F-dopants in a Li-rich cathode can suppress the structural degradation. UoBChemistry SUSTech 南方科技大学 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Collecting neutron PDF at CSNS again after 4 years. Great to see more beamlines available for battery users.

How to suppress structural degradation of battery materials? Yanfang Wang et al. demonstrate that fluorine doping is effective in mitigating strain accumulation in an archetypal lithium rich cathode material Li2RuO3. SUSTech 南方科技大学 UoBChemistry go.acs.org/9S3

Great honor to hear the excellent talk by Prof @KangXu_Echem at SUSTech 南方科技大学. One of the major takeaways for me is that although solid state batteries are popular nowadays, liquid electrolyte will dominate in the following years if not forever.

Officially graduated from UoBChemistry and deeply honored to be the first PhD in Allan group.

No proposal or manuscript is ever perfect, but to be effective, it does eventually need to be finished. Nothing we submit will ever be as good as it *could* be and just recognizing that can be an important step forward. Perfection is not the goal. Finished is the goal.

How to stabilize oxygen redox in Li-ion batteries? Online now Angewandte Chemie We report a lithium-rich and cobalt free cathode with a metastable R-3m structure (O6-type), which exhibits reversible oxygen redox and superb cycling stablity. UoBChemistry doi.org/10.1002/ange.2…

A Metastable Oxygen Redox Cathode for Lithium-Ion Batteries (Zhouguang Lu and co-workers) Yanfang Wang UoBChemistry #battchat #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Machine learning-assisted design and prediction of materials for batteries based on alkali metals pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

“As a PHD student, your job is not publishing a paper every quarter. Focus on a problem in deep understanding and solve it in years under the protect of your adviser” from Russ Tedrake #RSS2025

Excited to share our latest work (also the final chapter of my PhD thesis UoBChemistry) published in Angewandte Chemie now. "Spinel-Layered Heterostructure Enables Reversible Oxygen Redox in Lithium Manganese Oxide" doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…