Congrats to Katherine Michelmore on this amazing and well-deserved recognition!

If you’re heading to ECS in Hawaii, our group has 5 talks this week! First up on Sunday: 1) stress-corrosion cracking of NaSICON in aqueous electrolytes (A09, 10:40); and 2) mitigating stack pressure inhomogeneity in anode-free SSBs (A08, 17:40). Hope to see you there!

Neil is giving an invited talk at ECS #PRiME2024 tomorrow (Tuesday) at 8 AM in session L05 entitled “Operando visualization of Li Metal Anodes: From Liquid to Solid Electrolytes”, hope to see you there!

New paper “Understanding Process–Structure Relationships during Lamination of Halide Perovskite Interfaces” in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces with Fenning Research Group. We show that temperature is the key parameter to control diffusion bonding of PSCs, giving high bonded area, PL, and Jsc pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited for our new paper with Partha P. Mukherjee in Advanced Portfolio News on the role of stack pressure on rate capability of composite cathodes for solid-state batteries! Deep dive into the chemo-mechanics of these fascinating systems. Thanks to DOE Office of Science for support under MUSIC EFRC (DOE-BES)

New paper “Gas-Phase Photocatalytic CO2Methanation over Ru/TiO2: Effects of Pressure, Temperature, and Illumination” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry. We study CO2 reduction in the gas phase at elevated pressures, showing that light affects surface intermediate coverage pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Tunable Growth of Layered Double Hydroxide Nanosheets through Hydrothermal Conversion of Atomic Layer Deposition Seed Layers By Dasgupta Research Group University of Michigan Read the paper 👉 go.acs.org/buT

Our group members have three talks at AVS #AVS70 this week. Check them out for the latest on spatial ALD, modeling ALD infiltration into ultrahigh-aspect-ratio aerogels, and conversion of ALD films into tunable nanostructures via solution conversion chemistry!

Join us! We have postdoc positions open in the areas of battery materials and manufacturing, with topics spanning solid-state batteries, sodium batteries, and battery recycling. Interested candidates please send Prof. Dasgupta an email with your CV and cover letter.

Group photo 2024. It’s such a joy to learn, work, and grow together as a team!

New paper “Eliminating chemo-mechanical degradation of lithium solid-state battery cathodes during >4.5 V cycling using amorphous Nb2O5 coatings” in Nature Communications. #ALDep coatings enable stable 4.7V cycling of NMC cathodes! DOE Office of Science funded MUSIC EFRC (DOE-BES) nature.com/articles/s4146…

If you’re at #F24MRS, Neil is giving an invited talk on Li Metal Anodes at 1:30 pm (CH04), and Aslam is speaking at 2:15 on lamination as an alternative manufacturing platform for perovskite solar cells (EL04). Hope to see you there!

Congrats to our latest Ph.D. Graduate, Dr. Alondra Ortiz-Ortiz! So proud and honored to have served as your advisor. Go Blue! University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering

New paper “Tuning the Selectivity of Bimetallic Cu Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction Using Atomic Layer Deposition” in Chemical Communications. Even single-cycle #ALDep modifications can have profound impact on selectivity of Cu-based catalysts for CO2 reduction. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Congrats to ECS University of Michigan Student Chapter on being named an ECS Chapter of Excellence! Great job team!

New from Neil Dasgupta, Charles Roberts and colleagues from University of Michigan and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) 'Tuning the selectivity of bimetallic Cu electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction using atomic layer deposition' Dasgupta Research Group #OpenAccess 🔓 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Our new paper in Nature Materials “Electro-Chemo-Mechanics of Anode-Free Solid-State Batteries “ is out! Collab from our MUSIC EFRC (DOE-BES) team with @McDowell_Lab Partha P. Mukherjee Sakamoto Research Group Kelsey B. Hatzell, and more, led by Stephanie Sandoval and Catherine Haslam! DOE Office of Science funded

New paper "Controlling Stack Pressure Inhomogeneity in Anode-free Solid-State Batteries using Elastomeric Interlayers" in Matter_CP. We quantify the impacts of non-uniform stack pressure in SSBs, compensated by interlayers. MUSIC EFRC (DOE-BES) DOE Office of Science funded sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Join us at ECS Meeting in Chicago (Oct 12–16, 2025). where 21 research talks from MUSIC EFRC (DOE-BES) (a DOE-BES EFRC) will highlight cutting-edge advances in #electro_mechanics of #solid_ion_conductors. Explore #electrochemical_mechanical coupling in solid electrolyte systems". U.S. Department of Energy