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2022

April 21, 2022

• Congratulations to Xiaozhang Yao on passing his Ph.D. comprehensive smoothly.

April 20, 2022

• Congratulations to Yi Guan on passing his Ph.D. comprehensive smoothly.

April 19, 2022

• Congratulations to Jinjin Ma on passing her Ph.D. comprehensive smoothly.

April 18, 2022

• Congratulations to Sixu Deng on passing his Ph.D. defense smoothly.

January 12, 2022

• Congratulations to Jing Luo on passing her Ph.D. defense smoothly.

2021

December 9, 2021

• Congratulations to Matthew Zheng on passing his Ph.D. comprehensive smoothly.

December 8, 2021

• Congratulations to Yipeng Sun on passing his Ph.D. defense smoothly.

September 30, 2021

• Congratulations to Xiaoge Hao on passing her Ph.D. comprehensive successfully.

September 21, 2021

• Congratulations to Weihan Li on passing his Ph.D. comprehensive successfully.

August 16, 2021

• Congratulations to Minsi Li on passing her Ph.D. defense smoothly.

August 12, 2021

• Congratulations to Keegan Adair on passing his Ph.D. defense smoothly.

August 10, 2021

• Congratulations to Xuejie Gao on passing her Ph.D. defense smoothly.

August 5, 2021

• Congratulations to Junjie Li on passing his Ph.D. defense smoothly.

August 3, 2021

• Congratulations to Feipeng Zhao on passing his Ph.D. defense smoothly.

April 6, 2021

• Congratulations to Matt Zheng on receiving NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s program.

April 6, 2021

• Congratulations to Sixu Deng on receiving ACS Student Poster Award at the conference of ACS Spring 2021 sponsored by the ACS Energy and Fuels Division (ENFL).

January 1, 2021

• Welcome new graduate students to join our group: Matt, Fanny, Xiaoge, Jinjin, Xiaozhang and Yi.

2020

December 20, 2020

• [Carbon Energy News]: An exclusive interview with Dr. Sun [details]

August 19, 2020

• [CTV News] Dr. Sun's group memebers, Weihan Li and Minsi Li are highlighted by CTV News for their research on the low-cost synthesis of black phosphorus and its application on the high-performance batteries. [more]

August 18, 2020

• Congratulations to Xiaoting Lin on passing her Ph.D. defense smoothly.

August 17, 2020

•  Canadian Light Source (CLS) highlights the recent study from Dr. Sun's group using synchrotron techniques. This work, conducted by Weihan Li, demonstrates the promise of phosphorene in electronics. [more]

January 22, 2020

• Congratulations to Changhong Wang on passing his Ph.D. defense smoothly.

2019

December 13, 2019

•  Congratulations to Kieran Doyle Davis on smoothly passing his Ph.D. comprehensive exam.

December 11, 2019

•  Congratulations to Shuming zhang on smoothly passing her Ph.D. comprehensive exam.

October 30, 2019

•  Congratulations to Fei Sun on passing her Ph.D. defense smoothly.

October 30, 2019

•  Congratulations to Jiwei Wang on passing his Ph.D. defense smoothly.

June 3, 2019

•  Synchrotron Radiation for Materials Analysis Satellite Meeting at the 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference was co-organized by Prof. Yang Song, Prof. Zhifeng Ding and Prof. Xueliang (Andy) Sun at Western University. [more]

May 5, 2019

•  Congratulations to Yang on receiving the 2018 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.

April 24, 2019

•  Congratulations to Erica on smoothly passing her Ph.D. comprehensive exam.

April 10, 2019

[Global NEWS] Western University partners with a Chinese company to research alternative batteries for electric vehicles. [more]

April 10, 2019

[Western NEWS] On Wednesday, Western Engineering professor Andy Sun welcomed to campus members of the China Automotive Battery Research Institute Co. Ltd (CABRI), including its president, Baiqing Xiong, to celebrate the opening of GLABAT Solid-State Battery Inc., located in the Western Research Park. [more]

April 10, 2019

• CTV reported opening ceremony of GLABAT solid-state battery inc.  [more]

February 1, 2019

• CTV reported our recent progress on Li-S batteries. [more] 

January 24, 2019

Xueliang (Andy) Sun, Western’s Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion, and his collaborators from Western Engineering, Western’s Department of Chemistry and Canadian Light Source have developed a new solid-phase conversion mechanism between sulphur and lithium sulphide which would enable universal application of sulphur cathodes in carbonate-based electrolytes, meaning sulphur – which is highly abundant in Canada and as a result, relatively inexpensive – could be used in lithium batteries as opposed to cobalt, which is a rarer and far more expensive chemical element than sulphur. [more]

2018

December 18th, 2018

•  Congratulations to Yang Zhao on passing his Ph.D. defense smoothly.  

December 7th, 2018

• Prof. Sun visiting Tamkang University in Taiwan. Please find details here [link]. 

November 13th, 2018
• Congratulations to Xuejie Gao on smoothly passing her Ph.D. comprehensive exam.

November 8th, 2018
•  Congratulations to Feipeng Zhao and Junjie Li on smoothly passing their Ph.D. comprehensive exam.

September 14th, 2018
•  Congratulations to Zhongxin Song on smoothly passing her Ph.D. defense.

September 1st, 2018
•  Welcome Shumin Zhang to join our group as a Ph.D. student.

April 26th, 2018
•  Congratulations to both Keegan and Yipeng for their successfully passing their comprehensive exam and directly transferring to the Ph.D. study.  

April 1st, 2018
•  Congratulations to Keegan R. Adair for receiving the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (NSERC CGSD).  

April 1st, 2018
•  Congratulations to Alicia Koo for receiving the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (NSERC CGSM).  

April 1st, 2018
•  Congratulations to Feipeng Zhao for receiving the Ontario Trillium Scholarships, which is the best scholarship award in Ontario.  

March 29th, 2018

•  We had a farewell party for Dr. Hossein Yadegari, who is going to do PDF in the U.S., In last four years, Hossein worked as a Ph.D. and post-doctorate in our group focusing on Na-O₂ batteries. With his great contribution, our group is one of the top research groups in Na-O₂ batteries over the world. Roughly, 1/3 papers in Na-O₂ batteries are published by our group. Also, Hossein had close collaboration with other group members and helped others a lot. He is a great team player. We all sincerely wish him a bright future.

March 1st, 2018
•  Welcome Dr. Changtai Zhao to join our group as a post-doctoral fellow.  

January 6th, 2018
•  Welcome Jing Luo to join our group as a Ph.D. student.

2017

 December 12th, 2017
•  Congratulations to Xiaoting Lin on passing her Ph.D. comprehensive successfully.   

Dember 5th, 2017
•  Congratulations to Changhong Wang on passing his Ph.D. comprehensive successfully.   

October 20th, 2017
•  Congratulations to Biqiong Wang on passing her Ph.D. defense. Her defense Chair said: "I can understand what she explained to the examiners although my background is nursing".   

October 13th, 2017
•  Congratulations to Yulong Liu on passing his Ph.D. defense.   Prof. Keryn Lian, one of committee members, commended his experimental results, and his confidence in both presentation and defense.    

October 6, 2017
•  Congratulations to Ali Fathalla Abdulla on passing his Master degree defense.    

October 3, 2017
•  Congratulations to Wei Xiao on passing his Ph.D. defense.    

September 6th, 2017
• Welcome Dr. Jianwen Liang and Dr. Xiaona Li to join our group as Post-doctoral fellows.  

September 6th, 2017
• Welcome Alicia Koo to join our group as a Master Students.  

September 1st, 2017
• Welcome Feipeng Zhao, Junjie Li, and Xuejie Gao to join our group as Ph.D. Students.  

May 10th, 2017
• Welcome Dr.Muhammad Iqbal to join our group.