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2026

01/22/2026 Our Graduate Student Songtao Yang got Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant.  

01/08/2026  Our Group collaborated with researchers from U-M Mechanical Engineering (ME) | College of Literature, Science, and the Arts | College of Engineering | Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design | School for Environment and Sustainability | Matthaei Botanical Garden team was selected as an Inaugural OVPR  Impact Institute Seed Stage Awardee. #Impact Driven #Leadership Focused #Look to Michigan

THREADS Collaborative for Natural Fiber Futures The Michigan THREADS Collaborative will address the environmental and social harms of society’s dependence on synthetic fiber by developing regionally sourced natural fiber solutions for sustainable textiles, composites and building materials in ways that support local supply chains, uplift material cultures and connect people with the places and systems that sustain them.

Go team! Excellent news to start the new year! 

2025

12/04/2025 Our ME RISE Researcher, Yuliana Garcia, presented at this semester’s ME Undergraduate Research Symposium (MEUS).

12/04/2025 As we approach the end of the semester, our MECHENG 599 — Principles, Materials, Manufacturing, and Devices of Batteries — class gathered for a group photo. Thank you to all students, the ME 599-004 2025 Cohort. #Educating Next Generation of Electrochemist #electrochemistry

11/07/2025 Our Collaborative Research with The Rohini Bala Chandran Group has been published in ACS Materials Letters. Congratulations to the entire team! Link 

09/22/2025 Our Group team up with researchers from U-M Mechanical Engineering (ME), Robotics, and Chemistry has been selected for the 2025 Bold Challenges Boost cohort with a project that aims to develop an autonomous laboratory (Self-Driving Laboratories for Chemistry and Materials Science). The multidisciplinary research team aims to develop an autonomous laboratory guided by digital twin technology to improve processes related to materials discovery. 

09/24/2025 Our invited article "Cellulose Ionic Conductors for Sustainable Ion Transport in Next-Generation Electrochemical Devices" has been accepted by  Journal of Materials Research. Congratulations, Team! Link

We would like to thank Journal of Materials Research Editor-in-Chief Dr. Quanxi Jia and Editor Dr. Xingcheng Xiao for their kind invitation.

05/26/2025 Our Group was selected as a Co-Principal Investigator for the Battery Digital Twin Project and received seed funding support from our own U-M Mechanical Engineering Department.

05/27/2025 Our Group have published our invited article published on MRS Communications. Link

We thank MRS Communications Editor-in-Chief Dr. Rigoberto C. Advincula's kind invitation. 

05/22/2025 Our Group presented our "Solid-State Electrolytes for Next-Generation Batteries" research in  247th ECS Meeting in Montréal Canada.

04/10/2025 Our Group presented our research "Harnessing Nature for Sustainability" in 2025 Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) at California! 

2024

1/19/2024 We convened our first group meeting of the semester, which serves as an excellent starting point! Kudos to our talented students!

2023

12/22/2023 Our graduate student started his project and made our group logo. Happy Holidays!

12/15/2023  Our high school student Cindy Yan Tung Shum from The Lawrenceville School just got accepted into Stanford College! Congratulations, Cindy! 

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