06/2024 Summer students Timothy Merrell (ACS SEED), Spencer Smith (NSF REU), and Jazmin Bettancourt (CAES REU) joined EEML. Welcome!
05/2024 High school volunteer Bryan Li joined EEML. Welcome!
05/2024 Our collaborative work with Prof. Chunrong Ma at Qingdao U is published at Chemical Science.
05/2024 Tristan’s work on mechanisms of ion irradiation induced ordering in amorphous oxides is published at the Journal of Nuclear Materials. Congrats!
05/2024 Eric won the Graduate Student of the Year award and Cyrus won the Graduate Student Service Award from MSMSE. Congrats!
05/2024 Eric’s work on interlay cation ordering in layered oxide positive electrodes for sodium ion batteries is published at JACS (Front Cover). Congrats!
04/2024 Dr. Xiong gave a seminar talk at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in UCLA. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Dunn!
04/2024 Dr. Xiong gave a seminar talk at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the University of Alabama. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Pan!
04/2024 Graduate student Sarah received the prestigious NSF GFRP fellowship. Congrats!!!
04/2024 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at ORNL. Thanks for the invite, Dr. Cheng!
4/2024 Dr. Xiong gave a seminar talk at the BATT CAVE center in UNC Charlotte. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Ma!
3/2024 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the ACS Spring 2024 meeting.
01/2024 Alex received the Outstanding Junior Award. Congrats!
1/2024 Our collaborative work with Prof. Feng Lin’s group at Virginia Tech is published at PNAS.
2023
11/2023 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the MRS 2023 Fall meeting.
11/2023 Dr. Xiong co-organized a 2023 NSF Professional Development Workshop in Ceramics in Boston.
11/2023 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk the the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Washington University at St. Louis. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Bai!
11/2023 Our collaborative work with Dr. Bin Li at INL/ORNL and Prof. Yue Qi at Brown University is published at Nature Materials.
Undergraduate Alex Koisch joined EEML. Welcome!
10/2023 Our invited review with Prof. Janelle Wharry at Purdue University on Radiation effects on materials for electrochemical energy storage systems is featured as the front cover in PCCP.
10/2023 Dr. Xiong participated in Voices at Cell Reports Physical Science to share her views on Nanomaterials in the future of energy research. Thanks for the invite, Dr. Emily Edwards!
10/2023 Dr. Xiong attended the Brown University Sustainable Energy Workshop. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Qi!
10/2023 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the The Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) 2023. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Li and Dr. Wong!
09/2023 EEML received a new grant award from AFRL. Thanks for the support!
09/2023 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the 8th International Conference on Sodium Batteries (ICNaB 2023). Thanks for the invite, Prof. Hu!
09/2023 Graduate student Jiacheng Hu joined EEML. Welcome, Jiacheng!
08/2023 EEML received a new grant award from DOE BES. Thanks for the support!
08/2023 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at ACS Fall Meeting. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Mu!
08/2023 Our collaborative work with Dr. Eungje Lee at Argonne National Laboratory is published at ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.
08/2023 URA Sarah Pooley joined EEML as a graduate student. Welcome, Sarah!
07/2023 Our collaborative work with Prof. Feng Lin’s group at Virginia Tech on ion transport in SEI is published at the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. Congrats, Josh!
07/2023 Dr. Xiong is elevated to the Fellow of the American Ceramic Society.
07/2023 Dr. Xiong co-authored an Energy Focus article published at ACS Energy Letters on Nanomaterials and Sustainability to share her perspectives on transition metal oxide electrode materials for energy storage. Thanks for leading the efforts, Drs. Gary P. Wiederrecht anh Renaud Bachelot!
06/2023 Dr. Xiong is selected the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).
06/2023 Undergraduate Sarah started summer internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
06/2023 Dr. Xiong and graduate student Eric traveled to Oak Ridge National Lab to attend the 2023 Neutron Scattering User Meeting. Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the meeting. Thanks for the invitation from the SNS and HFIR User Group (SHUG)!
05/2023 Graduate student Cyrus is selected the NASA ISGC Fellow for 2023-2024. Congrats!
05/2023 EEML welcome summer interns (REU, RET) Jake, Robert, Keegan, Sam and Galib’ to conduct summer research.
05/2023 Graduate student Eric and group alumni Dr. Chunrong Ma published a perspective on heterostructure engineering in sodium ion batteries at eScience. Congrats!
05/2023 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk on heterostructure engineering in electrode materials for sodium ion batteries at the ECS Spring meeting in Boston. Thanks for the invite, Dr. Li!
04/2023 EEML members Eric, Allison, Sarah won the annual MSMSE Graduate Research Award, Undergraduate Student of the Year, and Undergraduate Research Award. Congrats!!
04/2023 EEML participated the White Pine Elementary School STEM Night event to showcase materials for energy sustainability.
04/2023 EEML won the campus wide Safety Madness 2023 competition. Thanks to Cyrus, Josh, and Sarah! Go EEML!
04/2023 EEML graduate student Tristan received the DOE SCGSR award. He will be working with Dr. Yongqiang Wang to investigate ion irradiation effect in metal oxides. Congrats!!
04/2023 EEML received a new award from the Office of Naval Research. Thanks for the support, ONR!
O3/2023 Undergraduate student Sarah received a summer internship at Los Alamos National Lab to work with our collaborator Dr. Aiping Chen. Congrats, Sarah!
03/2023 Our collaborative work with Dr. Yuzi Liu at ANL is published at Nanotechnology.
03/2023 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at Pittcon. Thanks for the invitation, Dr. Kim!
02/2023 Dr. Xiong attended the Gordon Research Conference – Nanomaterials for Applications in Energy Technology and hosted a discussion in Materials Chemistry in Energy Storage. Thanks for the invitation, Prof. Matt McDowell!
02/2023 Dr. Xiong joined the Advisory Board of Journal of Materials Chemistry A & Materials Advances (RSC).
01/2023 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at EMA2023. Thanks for the invite, Drs. Yingge Du & Aiping Chen!
2022
12/2022 Dr. Xiong co-organized the CH03-Advances in In Situ and Operando TEM Methods for the Study of Dynamic Processes in Materials symposium with graduate student Josh as the assistant at the MRS Fall 2022 meeting. Both gave talks at the meeting. Dr. Xiong thanks the invite from Dr. Zhou (ANL)!
12/2022 Graduate students Kincaid Graff and Cyrus Kononi presented their outreach activities with the Girl Scouts of Silver Sage on energy sustainability at the Service Learning Exhibition as a “featured submission”. STEM rocks!
10/2022 Our collaborative work with EEML former member Prof. Chunrong Ma on interfacing engineering in MoS2/TiO2 for sodium ion batteries is published at Advanced Science.
09/2022 Dr. Xiong received a funding award from DOE BES to investigate interfacial properties and cation order-disorder in mixed-phase complex sodium metal oxide cathodes for sodium ion batteries. We appreciate the support from the Department of Energy!
08/2022 Our invited perspective with Prof. Janelle Wharry at Purdue University is published at Materials-MDPI. Congrats, Cyrus and Tristan! Thanks for the invitation, Drs. Yongqiang Wang and Khalid Hattar!
08/2022 Our collaborative work with Prof. Weiyang Li at Dartmouth College is published at Nature Communications. Congrats, Min (Haoyu)!
08/2022 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the ACS Fall 2022. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Hui Wang!
04/2022 Undergrad student Allison received the Fall 2022 HERC Research Fellowship. Congrats!
04/2022 Ph.D. student Cyrus received the NASA ISGC Fellowship. Congrats!
04/2022 Ph.D. student Eric received the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award. He will work with ANL staff scientist Dr. Chengjun Sun on the development of in situ/operando X-ray Absorption and X-ray Emission Spectroscopy. Congrats!
04/2022 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the Materials Conference. Thanks for the invite!
03/2022 MSE undergrad student Luke Landsberg joined EEML. Welcome!
03/2022 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the ACS Spring 2022 meeting. Thanks for the invitation, Prof. Tao Gao!
03/2022 Postdoc Dewen’s working on in situ heating analysis of P2‑Na0.67Ni0.33Mn0.67O2 cathode materials is published at the Journal of Materials Research. Congrats!
02/2022 Ph.D. student Eric’s review on multiphase layered transition metal oxide positive electrodes for sodium ion batteries is published at Energy Science & Engineering (Wiley). Congrats!
02/2022 Our collaborative work with Prof. Janelle Wharry (Purdue U) on in situ ion irradiation of amorphous TiO2 nanotubes is published at The Journal of Materials Research. Congrats!
2021
12/2021 Dr. Xiong gave a virtual seminar at Zhengzhou University, College of Chemistry. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Chen!
12/2021 Undergrad student Allison is the 2022 Top Boise State Junior recognized by the Idaho Society of Professional Engineers. Congrats!
10/2021 Dr. Haoyu Zhou’s work on understanding formation and evolution of solid electrolyte interphase at graphitic electrodes with and without defects is published at Small. Congrats!
10/2021 Dr. Dewen Hou’s review “Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Sodium-Ion Batteries” is published as the Cover of Issue 11 (Vol 6) at ACS Energy Letters. Congrats!
10/2021 Graduate student Kincaid is accepted to attend the (virtual) total scattering school organized by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
10/2021 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk on layered transition metal oxide cathode materials at the 240th ECS meeting. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Jianhua Tong!
10/2021 Group alumni Pete won the Distinguished Doctoral Scholarship from the Graduate College, Boise State. Congrats, Pete!
09/2021 Dr. Xiong gave a virtual seminar at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Utah University. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Gao!
09/2021 Dr. Pete Barnes joined Idaho National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Fellow. All the best!
08/2021 Graduate student Eric Gabriel successfully defended his thesis proposal. Congrats!
06/2021 Former postdoc Yingying Xie’s work on the role of lithium for P2 layered oxide cathode materials is published at Chemistry of Materials. Congrats!
05/2021 Graduate student Kincaid Graff was accepted to attend the APS/IIT Virtual Summer XAFS School 2021.
05/2021 REU student Stephanie McCallum and high school student Will Wang joined EEML for summer research. Welcome!
05/2021 Undergraduate students Angel Conrado, Allison Muenzer, Dylan Melander, Sarah Pooley joined EEML. Welcome!
05/2021 Kincaid started graduate studies in EEML. Let’s have more fun!
05/2021 URA Kincaid Graff and Max Cook graduated! Congrats!
04/2021 Dr. Xiong co-organized and chaired sessions for the symposium “EN03: Intercalation energy storage materials and systems for beyond Li-ion batteries” at the Virtual Spring 2021 MRS Meeting.
03/2021 Dr. Xiong co-organized and chaired sessions for the symposium “ENFL006:Advances in Materials Synthesis & Characterization of Li-ion, Na-ion & Multi-Valent Batteries” at the Virtual Spring 2021 ACS Meeting.
02/2021 Ph.D. student Pete Barnes successfully defended. Congratulations, Dr. Barnes!
01/2021 Dr. Xiong successfully organized the Virtual EMA2021 meeting as the lead meeting organizer. Thanks for the support of co-organizers, symposium organizers, and ACerS staff! Ph.D. student Eric Gabriel gave a talk on the irreversibility of layered oxide positive electrode materials for sodium ion batteries at the meeting.
2020
11/2020 Former Ph.D. student Changjian’s work on origins of irreversibility of layered oxide positive electrode materials for sodium ion batteries is published at ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congrats!
11/2020 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at MS&T20 Virtual. Thanks for the invitation, Prof. Lan Li!
10/2020 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the special symposium A01 In Honor of Nobel Laureate Prof. M. Stanely Whittingham in ECS PRiME2020. Thanks for the invitation, Dr. Jie Xiao! Very honored to present our work.
08/2020 PhD student Josh Russel joined EEML. Welcome!
06/2020 Graduate student Eric Gabriel was accepted to attend 2020 National School on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering.
01/2020 Former PhD student Changjian’s work on crystallinity effect of TiO2 mesoporous nanoparticle electrode for Li ion batteries is published at J. Mater. Chem. A. Congrats.
01/2020 PhD student Tristan Olsen joined EEML. Welcome!
2019
11/2019 Our collaborative paper on characterization of zirconium oxide has been published at Nuclear Materials & Energy. Congrats, Corey!
11/2019 PhD student Pete’s paper on Na electrolyte degradation study is published at the Journal of Power Sources. Congrats!
10/2019 Dr. Dewen Hou joined EEML as a postdoc. Welcome!
9/2019 Previous PhD student Kassi’s paper on the Journal of Materials Science has be highlighted as the editor’s pick. Material rocks!
8/2019 Previous PhD student Changjian’s work of amorphou and crystalline TiO2 nanoparticle electrodes in sodium ion battery has been published at Electrochimica Acta. Congrats!
7/2019 Previous PhD student Kassi’s work of proton irradiation effect on anatase TiO2 nanotube electrode is published at the Journal of Materials Science. Congrats!
6/2019 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the ICMAT2019 international conference. Thanks for the invitation, Dr. Yao!
5/2019 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the annual CNM/APS User Meeting 2019. Thanks for the invite, Dr. Yuzi Liu!
4/2019 Undergraduate student Paige received the Student of the Year award and graduate student Changjian received the MSE Graduate Student Research Award from our school. Congrats!
3/2019 Undergraduate student Jorge Perez joined EEML. Welcome!
2/2019 Undergraduate student Julie Pipkin joined EEML. Welcome!
2/2019 MS student Andreas’s PCCP paper was selected by PCCP editors and featured in the 2018 HOT articles collection. Congrats!
2/2019 Xiong group participated the annual Engineering & Science Festival to showcase energy materials. STEM is FUN!
1/2019 Undergraduate students Paige and Chris presented their work at the EMA 2019 meeting. Dr. Xiong co-organized and chaired sessions for the Ion Conducting Ceramics symposium at the meeting.
1/2019 Dr. Xiong is featured in an article at ACerS.
1/2019 MS student Michael Reynolds (co-advised by Dr. Mike Hurley) joined the group. Welcome!
1/2019 Visiting graduate student Chunrong’s work on Coaxial Carbon Nanotube Supported TiO2@MoO2@Carbon Core–Shell Anode for Sodium-ion batteries is published at ACS Nano. Congrats!
2018
12/2018 Visiting graduate student Chunrong’s work on MoP anode for lithium-ion batteries is published at ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congrats!
12/2018 Ph.D. student Changjian successfully defended his thesis. Congrats, Dr. Deng!
11/2018 Postdoc Dr. Haoyu (Min) Zhu joined the group. Welcome!
10/2018 Ph.D. student Changjian’s work on Li-Substituted Layered Spinel Cathode for Sodium-ion batteries is published at Chemistry of Materials. Congrats!
10/2018 Visiting scholar Yingying Xie joined the group. Welcome!
10/2018 Visiting graduate student Chunrong’s work on N,P-doped porous carbon framework anode for lithium-ion batteries is published at ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congrats!
10/2018 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the MS&T18 Meeting in Columbus. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Lan Li!
10/2018 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the AiMES meeting, Cancun, Mexico. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Feng Lin!
9/2018 Dr. Xiong received a DOE-EPSCoR lab partnership award to research on intergrowth cathode materials for sodium ion batteries.
09/2018 Visiting graduate student Chunrong’s work on FeP anode for sodium-ion batteries is published at Chemical Communications. Congrats!
08/2018 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the ACS Presidential Symposium at the 256th ACS National Meeting in Boston. Thanks for the invite, Dr. Tijana Rajh!
08/2018 Graduate students Eric Gabriel and Chris Bonner joined the group. Welcome!
08/2018 MS student Andreas’s work on defect generation of TiO2 nanotube vis heat treatment under various atmospheres is accepted for publication at Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Congrats!
07/2018 Undergraduate students Paige Skinner, Kiev Dixon, Chris Jones, Sam Frisone and high school SEED student Eric Storch gave poster presentations at the annual ICUR conference
06/2018 EEML welcomed visiting scholar Dr. Wenpo Li from Chonqing University.
06/2018 EEML welcomed summer students Sam Frisone (REU), Eric Storch (SEED), and Quinn White (Boise High) to conduct summer research.
06/2018 PhD Student Kassi successfully defended her thesis. Congrats, Dr. Smith!
05/2018 Graduate student Pete gave a talk on nanostructured niobium oxide electrode at the ECS spring meeting in Seattle.
05/2018 Graduate student Kassi won the department Graduate Student of the Year Award. Graduate student Pete won the department Service Award. Congrats!
04/2018 Graduate students Pete and Andreas’s work on electropolishing of Ti and Nb metals is accepted for publication at Surface & Coatings Technology. Congrats!
04/2018 MS student Andreas successfully defended his thesis. Congrats!
04/2018 Dr. Xiong and graduate student Andreas gave talks at the MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix.
03/2018 Dr. Xiong gave a seminar at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Florida. Thanks for the invitation, Prof. Jennifer Andrew!
03/2018 Graduate student Kassi’s work of ion irradiation effect on rutile TiO2 single crystal is accepted for publication at the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. Congrats!
02/2018 Xiong group participated the Science & Engineering Festival. STEM is FUN!
01/2018 Graduate student Kassi presented her work on irradiation effect of electroceramic materials at the 2018 Conference on Electronic and Advanced Materials and won the second place in student oral presentation award. Congrats!
2017
11/2017 Students in Xiong’s class (MSE497/597 Materials for Energy Sustainability) and her group hosted a STEM workshop for the Girl Scouts at Silver Sage. STEM is FUN!
10/2017 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the IUPAC NMS-XIII Conference. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Yuping Wu!
10/2017 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the Chemistry Department of University of Pittsburgh. It’s great to be back at her alma mater! Thanks for the invite, Prof. Shigeru Amemiya!
10/2017 Graduate student Kassi, Changjian and undergraduate student Andy presented their work at the 232nd ECS Meeting, National Harbor, MD
10/2017 Graduate student Kassi received the ECS travel grant to present her work at the 232nd ECS Meeting, National Harbor, MD
09/2017 Graduate student Kassi presented her work of irradiation effect on ceramic electrode materials at the annual CINT user meeting at the La Fonda on the Plaza hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. As the only student poster presenter among all other scientist presenters she was the runner up for the poster competition in the overall judging. Good job!
08/2017 Dr. Xiong gave a talk at the CAES Materials Initiative working meeting, Boise, ID
07/2017 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the College of Energy, Nanjing Tech University. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Yuping Wu!
06/2017 Graduate student Changjian and undergraduate Andy’s paper on boron electrode is accepted by Nanoscale. Congrats!
06/2017 Dr. Xiong visited Shanghai Jiaotong University and gave invited talks at State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites and Department of Chemical Engineering. Thanks for the invites, Profs. Di Zhang and Zifeng Ma!
06/2017 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the Beijing University of Technology. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Zaicheng Sun!
06/2017 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the School of Material Science and Technology at China University of Geosciences (Beijing). Thanks for the invite, Prof. Meitang Liu!
06/2017 Xiong group gave a demo on electrolytes to local high school girls at the e-Girls 2017.
05/2017 REU student Devin Krasowski and RET teacher Hailey Bull joined our group to conduct research in summer. Welcome!
05/2017 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the 2017 NSF Career Development Workshop in Ceramics and a technical talk at the PacRim12 Meeting at the Big Island, HI.
04/2017 Our previous REU student Jack Lewis is accepted to enter graduate school in MSE at Georgia Tech. Congrats!
03/2017 Dr. Xiong visited UC-Riverside and gave an invited talk at Department of Chemistry. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Yadong Yin!
03/2017 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at TMS 2017 meeting. Thanks for the invite, Prof. Lei Zhang!
03/2017 Kassi’s paper is accepted by Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Congrats!
02/2017 Xiong group participated the Science & Engineering Festival. STEM is FUN!
02/2017 MSE undergraduate student Sterling Croft joined our group. Welcome!
01/2017 Dr. Xiong co-organized the Ion Conducting Ceramics symposium at EMA2017.
01/2017 Graduate student Kassi gave a talk at EMA2017.
01/2017 ME undergraduate student Laura Rill and MSE undergraduate student Paige Skinner joined our group. Welcome!
10/2016 Graduate student Kassi presented two talks on her works of disordered 3D multi-layer graphene and proton irradiated TiO2 electrode at MS&T 2015.
08/2016 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the XXV International Materials Research Congress. Thanks for the invite, Dr. Bin Li!
07/2016 Xiong group gave a hands-on workshop on Energy Storage to the Idaho Science and Aerospace Scholars (ISAS)
07/2016 Undergraduate student Devan, REU students Jack Lewis and Ainsley St Clair presented their summer research at ICUR.
06/2016 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the Department of Chemistry in Zhejiang University. Thanks for the invitation, Prof. Peng Wang and Yi Yuan!
04/2016 Graduate student Kassi’s paper was accepted by ChemSusChem! Congrats, Kassi!
03/2016 Dr. Xiong co-organized the Batteries and Supercapacitors symposium and gave an invited talk at 251st ACS Meeting.
02/2016 Xiong group participated the Engineering and Science Festival 2016. Go STEM!
01/2016 Dr. Xiong co-organized the Ion-conducting Ceramics symposium at EMA2016. Graduate student Kassi presented her work on irradiation effect of metal oxide electrodes in the meeting.
01/2016 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the Chemistry Department of Drexel University. Thanks for the invitation, Profs. Sohlberg and Ji.
2015
12/2015 Undergraduate Devan Karsann was selected to receive a Summer Research Fellowship from the Student Research Program at Boise State to conduct research on chemically treated TiO2 nanotube electrode for sodium-ion batteries. Congrats!
10/2015 Xiong group started a MSE program at the Boys & Girls club at Ada County. Kids are learning materials, force, and energy, and most importantly — having FUN!
10/2015 Dr. Xiong gave in invited talk at the Chemical Engineering Department at University of New Hampshire. Thanks for your invitation, Prof. Xiaowei Teng!
10/2015 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the 2nd International Sodium Battery Conference. Thanks for the invite, Dr. Chris Johnson!
09/2015 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the Pacific Northwest National Lab. Thanks for the invite, Dr. Xiaolin Li!
09/2015 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk University of North Carolina- Charlotte. Thanks for your invitation, Prof. Haitao Zhang!
09/2015 Dr. Xiong is featured in an online article in ACerS Bulletin (American Ceramic Society) for her NSF CAREER award.
08/2015 Graduate student Pete Barnes joined the group. Welcome!
07/2015 REU students, Amaris and Andreas attended the Idaho Conference on Undergraduate Research (ICUR) to present their summer research on nanostructured metal oxide electrodes for sodium-ion batteries.
06/2015 Graduate student Richard Cutler successfully defended his master thesis entitled “Electrolyte Optimization Study for TiO2 Nanotube Electrode in Sodium Ion Batteries”. Congrats, Richard!
05/2015 Summer REU students, Amaris Rodriguez (Francis Univ.) and Andreas Savva (NJIT), started summer research in sodium-ion batteries in Xiong group. Welcome!
05/2015 Undergraduate students, Devan Karsann (MSE) and Andy Lau (MBE), joined the group. Welcome!
04/2015 Prof. Xiong co-organized the Symposium G: Next Generation Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Systems ─ Synthesis, Processing, Characterization and Manufacturing at 2015 MRS Spring Meeting — San Francisco, CA
04/2015 Graduate student, Kassi, served as the graduate assistant for Symposium G and presented a poster at the 2015 MRS Spring Meeting on the work of porous organic framework cathode for sodium-ion batteries. Undergraduate Jason and graduate students Changjian and Richard have contributed to this work. The work is a collaborative effort with Prof. Jian Zhang at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln.
04/2015 Visiting graduate student, Michael Dahl, from Yin group (UC- Riverside), joined Xiong group. Welcome!
03/2015 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the 57th Idaho Academy of Sciences and Engineering Annual Meeting and Symposium, Boise, ID. Thanks for the invitation, Prof. Dave Estrada.
03/2015 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk in the symposium of “Nanostructured Materials for Rechargeable Batteries and for Supercapacitors III” at the 2015 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Orlando, FL. Thanks for the invitation, Prof. Yan Yao.
02/2015 Dr. Xiong received the NSF CAREER award. Xiong group has openings for graduate students and postdoctoral fellow. Highly motivated students and postdocs are encouraged to apply and send your CV and a cover letter to Dr. Xiong.
02/2015 Xiong group participated the STEM EXPLORATION DAY on campus. STEM is FUN!!
02/2015 Dr. Xiong gave an invited seminar at the Chemistry Department in Boise State. Thanks for the invitation, Prof. Kevin Ausman.
02/2015 Dr. Xiong visited University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, and gave an invited at the Department of Physics. Thanks very much for your invitation, Prof. You Qiang!
01/2015 Dr. Xiong participated the Meet and Greet Event with the new partner in CAES – University of Wyoming at Idaho Falls, ID.
2014
12/2014 Dr. Xiong’s collaborative work entitled “Evolution of Self –Assembled ZnTe Magic Sized Nanoclusters” is accepted for publication at Journal of the American Chemical Society
10/2014 Two of Dr. Xiong’s papers on Sodium-ion battery and Lithium-ion battery have be ranked by Essential Science Indicator as Highly Cited Paper.
10/2014 Dr. Xiong visited the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, and gave an invited talk at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Thanks very much for your invitation, Prof. Anne Co!
10/2014 Dr. Xiong visited NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH and gave an invited talk in the Electrochemistry Branch. Thanks very much for your kind invitation, Dr. James Wu!
10/2014 Dr. Xiong attended and gave a talk at the 2014 MS&T Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
10/2014 Dr. Xiong received an Idaho NASA EPSCoR Research Initiation Grant to initiate collaborative work with NASA scientist on nanoarchitectured metal and alloy electrodes for Lithium-ion batteries.
09/2014 Undergraduate Riley Parrish won the first place in the poster competition at the 25th annual symposium of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of AVS/PREMIER network. Congrats!
09/2014 Dr. Xiong visited the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland Washington to give an invited talk at the 25th annual symposium of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of AVS/PREMIER network. Thanks very much for your invitation Drs. Mark Engelhard and Chongmin Wang!
09/2014 Dr. Xiong co-organized a CAES workshop on Energy Storage and Ion Conducting Materials and Modeling at Boise, Idaho
08/2014 Dr. Xiong received a NSF award (DMR) to study the irradiation effect on the electrochemical properties of nanostructured metal oxide electrodes for Lithium-ion batteries.
08/2014 Graduate students Kassiopeia Smith, Changjian Deng and Lance Patten joined the group. Welcome!
08/2014 Prof. Xiong co-organized and gave a talk in the Battery and Fuel Cell Technologies Symposium (ENFL Division of Energy and Fuel) at ACS 248th Meeting — San Francisco, CA.
07/2014 Undergraduate Jayson Mok, REU students Aaron Forde and Michael Reinisch participated the Idaho Conference on Undergraduate Research (ICUR) to showcase their summer research on sodium layered oxide and funtionalized titanium dioxide nanotube electrodes for sodium-ion batteries. Their research was supported by NSF ID STEP and NSF REU-Materials for Energy & Sustainability grants.
06/2014 Xiong group participated the e-Girl camp. Go girls!
06/2014 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the Department of Chemistry in Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. Thanks for the invitation, Prof. Yun Lu!
05/2014 Our paper of “In Silico Based Rank-Order Determination and Experiments on Non-Aqueous Electrolytes for Sodium Ion Battery Applications” is accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
04/2014 Dr. Xiong was invited to participate the CLS 2014 ACerS Future Leaders Program at the 4th Ceramic Leadership Summit at Baltimore, MD.
03/2014 Our very own Riley Parrish has won the Undergraduate Student Poster Award at the 56th Idaho Academy of Science Annual Meeting and Symposium for his poster of “Utilization of Cu6Sn5 Nanoparticles as Anodes in Sodium-ion Batteries”. Congrats!
02/2014 Undergrad Riley Parrish is honored the Outstanding Junior Level Engineering Student Award from the Idaho Society of Professional Engineers (ISPE). Congrats!
02/2014 Xiong Group participated the STEM Exploration Day at BSU. STEM is FUN!
02/2014 MSE undergraduate students Cullen Hapner and Riley Hunt joined the group. Welcome!
01/2014 Dr. Xiong received the support from GRC PUI fund to attend the GRC-Electrochemistry at Ventura, CA. Dr. Xiong presented a poster on “Electrode-electrolyte Interactions between Amorphous TiO2 Nanotube Electrode and Nonaqueous Electrolyte for Sodium-ion Batteries” as well as a 5-min talk in the Hot Topics Session on ” Defect-driven Titanium Dioxide Nanotube-based Anodes for Lithium-ion Batteries”. The support from GRC is gratefully appreciated.
2013
12/2013 Dr. Xiong is awarded affiliate status for academic year 2013-2014 in the Center for Advanced Energy Studies.
11/2013 Dr. Xiong chaired the Session: Sodium-ion Batteries – Anode 2 (B2: Battery Chemistry Beyond Lithium Ion) at 224th ECS Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
11/2013 Dr. Xiong received a ECS Battery Division Early Career Faculty Travel Grant to give a talk on “Electrode-electrolyte Solution Interactions between TiO2 Nanotube Electrode and Nonaqueous Electrolytes for Sodium-ion Batteries” in the 224th ECS Meeting at San Francisco, CA.
09/2013 Dr. Xiong attended the Institute for Recovery, Reuse, Recycling and Remanufacturing (R4-I) Planning workshop by INL – Denver, CO.
09/2013 Dr. Xiong co-organized the Hydrogen Energy Symposium (ENFL Division of Energy and Fuel) at ACS 246th Meeting>— Indianapolis, IN.
08/2013 ECE undergraduate student, Carl Barcroft, joined the group, welcome!
08/2013 MS student, Josh Huether, found a job at Plexus Manufacturing Solutions, Congrats!
08/2013 ECE undergraduate student, Jayson Mok, joined the group, welcome!
08/2013 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk at the CNM DOE Triennial Review in Argonne National Lab
07/2013 High school student, Bethany Williford, from Idaho Virtual Academy, started summer research in Xiong group, welcome!
06/2013 Dr. Xiong attended 2013 ACerS-NSF Ceramic PI Workshop at Arlington, VA
04/2013 Dr. Xiong gave an invited talk in the Advances in Materials for Batteries Symposium (ENFL Division of Energy and Fuel) at ACS 245th Meeting — New Orleans, LA.
04/2013 Dr. Xiong chaired the Session: Catalysts for Energy Conversion and Storage (Division of Energy and Fuels) at 245th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, USA
03/2013 MSE undergraduate student, Riley Parrish, joined the group, welcome!
01/2013 Dr Xiong’s work on compressive behavior of cubic Titania nanotube electrode under high pressure is published in Physical Review Lettersand highlighted in research at Center for Nanoscale Materials (Argonne)
01/2013 MSE graduate student, Josh Huether, joined the group, welcome!
2012
12/2012 Dr. Xiong was invited to give a talk at the College of Materials Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
11/2012 Dr. Xiong’s work on TiO2 nanotube anode for Li-ion batteries is recently highlighted in science at Argonne
11/2012 MSE graduate student, Richard Cutler, joined the group, welcome!
09/2012 Dr. Claire Xiong arrived at Boise State to start a new group!