Dr. Yang Zhao's Materials and Interfaces for Energy Storage Lab focuses on advanced materials for energy storage devices, including nanomaterials and nanostructure design and fabrication, surface and interface engineering, next-generation batteries, advanced characterization for materials and interfaces.
News
March 2023, We have a few openings for PDF and graduate students in the area of next generation batteries. Read more
Jan 2022, A recent review paper of "Antiperovskite Electrolytes for Solid-State Batteries" is published in Chemical Reviews. Read more
Jan 2022, Parham Pirayesh will continue to MESc starting in Jan. Welcome Xuefeng Tong to join our group for the MEng project.
Jan 2022, Welcome Zhi Liang Dong Join our group as a Ph.D. student! Zhi Liang is co-supervised by Dr. Zhao and Dr. TK Sham in the Department of Chemistry at Western.
Recent Publications
- From Nano-Alloy to Nano-Laminated Interfaces for Highly Stable Alkali Metal Anodes, Advanced Materials, 2023, 2301414
- A Dual Anion Chemistry-Based Superionic Glass Enabling Long Cycling All-Solid-State Sodium-Ion Batteries, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, In press
- Ionic Conductive and Highly-Stable Interface for Alkali Metal Anodes, Small, 2022, 18, 2203045
- Natural SEI-Inspired Dual-Protective Layers via Atomic/Molecular Layer Deposition for Long-life Metallic Lithium Anode, Matter, 2019, 1, 1215
- Anti-Perovskite Electrolytes for Solid-State Batteries, Chemical Reviews, 2022, 122, 3763–381
- Atomic/Molecular Layer Deposition for Energy Storage and Conversion, Chemical Society Reviews, 2021, 50, 3889-3956
- Na Metal Anode for Liquid and Solid-state Na Batteries, Energy & Environmental Science, 2023, In press
