Do you work in Li-ion cell manufacturing? What are the biggest challenges in your day-to-day? My grad student is trying to learn about real-world Li-ion battery manufacturing for an NSF grant focused on innovation. Please help inform an academic about what really matters. :-)

Belated congrats to Nikhila Paranamana from our group. one of four finalists for the international 2023 James Harper Award (tinyurl.com/2t98knf5). Her TED-style talk at AVS 2023 about her battery coating research was excellent. MizzouChemistry, Mizzou Research #roarmore

Congrats to Ryan Gettler for defending his PhD in Chemical Engr. Mizzou in January! His thesis is "ADVANCEMENTS IN ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF CONDUCTIVE POLYMERS: PROCESSING, CHARACTERIZATION, AND APPLICATIONS IN ENERGY STORAGE AND SENSING TECHNOLOGY" #GoMizzou #RoarMore

Thanks to Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering for hosting me for an invited talk as part of their seminar series earlier this semester. Saw some old friends and enjoyed making new connections.

Congrats to our own Anthony Khoury and Amit Datta for winning awards at MOCAP 2024 Spring Summit at Mizzou Engineering in Feb. Thanks Aesir, @EaglePicher, @spear_systems , MO Energy Initiative and @Enersys_Global for attending. Read more here: engineering.missouri.edu/2024/mizzou-en… #roarmore #gomizzou

🚨Abstracts due this Friday for the Fall ECS Meeting in Hawaii🚨 The 20th edition of the annual symposium G01 on "ALD and ALE Applications", will take place at the upcoming PRiME 2024 Meeting in Honolulu, Oct. 6-11, 2024. Submit your abstract by April 12: ecs.confex.com/ecs/prime2024/…

American Vacuum Society (AVS) 70 abstracts are due May 13th, 2024. A group of us are working to build a persistent community for vapor-phase polymer folks. Join us! Submit abstracts to avs70.avs.org/division-tf/

Each year in #Missouri, >$100M of N fertilizer is lost to runoff. To improve it, we need better sensors to measure it. Here, we report a new USGS-funded sensor design with benefits in cost, sensitivity, and selectivity. Go Mizzou, #roarmore, #water, #ag pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited for some recent press for work from our group! Congrats to Ryan Gettler, Shima Mehregan, Henry Koenig, and Andie Kaess for their work, and a big thanks to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for support. showme.missouri.edu/2024/in-search…

Worried about battery fires in electric vehicles? New research toward solid electrolytes (SEs) finds that oxygen migration forms shells 1000x thinner than a human hair to shutoff SEs. Go Mizzou, Mizzou Research, Mizzou Engineering, Mizzou Chemistry; Thanks U.S. National Science Foundation! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ae…

Our recent article was selected to be featured on the back cover of Advanced Energy Materials. I am hopeful this work will help the world create high performance solid state batteries. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ae…

Fellowships are available across all disciplines for incoming graduate students to come to Mizzou to study at the intersection of #Materials research and #MachineLearning - Apply Here: nrt.missouri.edu

Just Accepted for Publication - we used UV light plus gaseous water vapor to create functional groups on MoS2 for patterned atomic layer deposition pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congrats to Shima Mehregan for receiving the Thin Film Division Graduate Student award and for being one of five finalists in the world for the James Harper Award at the American Vacuum society #AVS71 annual meeting in Charlotte, NC this year. #RoarMore #GoMizzou #MizzouChemistry

Congratulations to Mahya Mehregan for a great talk at the American Vacuum Society #AVS71 conference last week. After her talk, we had a group lunch with friends in the vapor synthesis of hybrid organic and polymeric materials (VSHOP) community. Proud of you Mahya!

Had a great time participating in the annual 5K at the #AVS71 conference last week. Lucas Kuehnel left me in the dust, but I still got my personal best time. Big thanks to the conference organizers for putting it on!

Congrats to Lucas Kuehnel for presenting last week at #AVS71 conference in Charlotte, NC. Lucas represented the #NRT at #Mizzou to showcase our groups' machine learning efforts. Proud of Lucas Kuehnel, Campbell Sweet, Anthony Khoury, and Erick Gutierrez Monje for the great work

I had the opportunity to participate in a panel on Machine Learning for Thin Film Materials with co-panelists @ayanguasgil and Michael Nolan at #AVS71. Machine learning has so many opportunities to accelerate innovation and discovery, and I am excited for the future in this space