News
- 11/13/2025 We host Dr. Kang Xu’s visit at NTU
We were delighted to host Dr. Kang Xu (SES AI) at NTU EEE for his seminar “Electrolytes, Interfaces, Interphases, and AI4Batteries.”
He delivered an insightful lecture covering electrolyte history, and interface/interphase design. A memorable highlight was his reflection on Svante Arrhenius, whose PhD thesis on spontaneous ionic dissociation was graded “barely satisfactory,” yet later became foundational to electrochemistry and earned the Nobel Prize.
Kang also provided a live demonstration of the Molecular Universe SES AI platform, showing how AI can accelerate materials discovery and expand chemical design space.
After the seminar, we held a short interaction session and shared signed copies of Kang’s new book with several participants.
- 11/09/2025 The IBA 2025 meeting in Singapore! We were delighted to reconnect with friends and colleagues from around the world.
The International Battery Materials Associate IBA2025 meeting was successfully held in Singapore. It is exciting to see the growing momentum in electrochemistry and batteries in Singapore, and to be part of such a vibrant community in energy and materials.
- 10/27/2025 The E2ESR group start!
Weiran moved from University of Maryland to Nanyang Technological University. Will miss everyone there!!!
- 10/12/2025 248th ECS meeting in Chicago!
Weiran delivered two talks at the 248th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Chicago:
“Electrolyte and Interface Design for High-Performance All-Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries” by Dr. Weiran Zhang
“Aqueous Electrolyte Design to Achieve High Energy Batteries” on behalf of Prof. Chunsheng Wang
- 01/2025 Prof. Wang and Dr. Weiran Zhang developed a breakthrough solid-state battery chemistry, published in Nature Materials, enabling stable, high-performance all-solid-state lithium metal batteries operation under practical conditions.
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- 01/2024 TechXplore highlights our recent research published in Nature Energy!
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