Join Sam Tawfick and I in our Materials Research Society (MRS) conversation with experts on Materials for Powering Miniature Robots on February 21. Hear from Aimy Wissa at Princeton Engineering, Marc Miskin at Penn Engineering and Minshen Zhu at tu-chemnitz.de mrs.digitellinc.com/live/1344/page…

Happy to be the guest editor for special collection of GCCCD annual meeting. Feel free to reach out for submission!

Collaborated with Prof. Kai Zhang Uni Göttingen @AdvSciNews , we show the sustainability of batteries starting with raw materials. Glucose can be made into a polymer to enhance zinc battery stability. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sm…

At #EMRS spring meeting. Will give an invited talk on Micro-Origami MXene at Symposium J tomorrow 14:30. Looking forward to discussions.

Hornored to be a part of Early Career Forum 2024 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces We shared our progress in using micro-origami technology to create tiny energy storage devices and hope more colleagues will join to crack the dimension limit of batteries pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Today marks a monumental achievement! My PhD student, Zhe Qu, defended her thesis. A big thank you to Olfa Kanoun , Prof. Kai Zhang at University of Göttingen, and Minghao Yu@TUD for your insights. Zhe Qu will join Jinhua Sun’s group in Chalmers University of Technology soon.

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Kang Xu (许康) Before we also discussed the overpublishing phenomenon. nature.com/articles/s4156… Too many low quality papers. Just too many. In electrocatalysis and batteries, finding a really good study is getting quite hard unless you know where to look for. In AI, quantum comp, etc, it’s way

Hot off the press! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad… Favourite recent article. We studied how confined space at the micrometer scale and capillary forces can be used to access active ions in soil for energy storage. Many open questions, many possibilities. Advanced Portfolio News European Research Council (ERC)

These experiments show the development of an “ion harvester” battery that, when used in soil, generates energy through capillary action driven by these mini Swiss Rolls. Minshen Zhu@TU Chemnitz European Research Council (ERC) Find out more: ow.ly/fJE650U14Ln

I hated writing—until I learned there’s a science to it | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

A great pleasure to host Yujia — engaging discussions and exciting new opportunities ahead!

Delighted to host Leiting! Many thanks to Leiting, Profs. Nianjun Yang, Oliver Schmidt, Olfa Kanoun for their contributions to a successful PhD defense—my first Summa cum laude graduate! A truly exciting milestone and great discussions ahead!