IMEE Research Areas:
• Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs): High-nickel-content NCM cathode materials, phosphate-based cathode materials, carbon anode materials, niobium- and vanadium-based anode materials, titanium-based anode materials, silicon- and tin-based anode materials, flexible electrode materials
• Sodium-ion batteries (NIBs): NASICON-type cathode materials, Prussian Blue-type cathode materials, polyanion-type cathode materials, hard carbon anode materials
• Aqueous secondary batteries and hybrid capacitors: transition metal based electrode materials, porous carbon materials, zinc ion battery cathode materials, zinc anode stability issues
• Electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide (eRCO2): Design and study of new electrolyzers, copper-based catalysts, mechanism and kinetics of eRCO2
• Environmental and energy catalysis: catalytic purification of air pollutants, catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide, environmentally friendly catalyst for replacing mercury catalyst used in vinyl chloride synthesis, catalytic combustion of methane, photocatalysis and photo-electrical conversion, electrolysis of water, metal-air batteries
• Multifunctional materials: wave-absorbing and screening materials, flexible wave-absorbing materials, high-entropy materials
• Computational simulations and calculations: structural properties of heterogeneous catalysts and energy storage materials, interfacial electron structures and rational design, mechanism of organic pollutant conversion
