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Our group will attend the ECS Conference in Chicago next week, where team members will deliver three oral talks and one poster presentation. Looking to catch up with collaborators and meet with new electrochemists!

10.10.2025 04:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/electrochemical/article-abstract/doi/10.1115/1.4070072/1223129/The-Peculiarity-of-Chemo-Mechanical-Instabilities?redirectedFrom=fulltext

A new paper alert! Minal Wable and I reviewed the current state of chemo-mechanical deformations in Na-ion battery electrodes, and briefly compared them with Li-ion battery ones.
t.co/ucalJFsgHG

06.10.2025 12:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The linkage between optical and electrochemical properties of V2O5 cathodes during cycling in aqueous Zn-ion batteries using wide-field reflectivity - MRS Communications Understanding dynamic processes in battery materials under real-time conditions is critical for advancing electrochemical storage technologies. Here, we develop an operando optical technique to probe ...

Paper alert! Bret (a grad student) and Hunter (undergrad student) publish their joint efforts about optical and electrochemical properties of V2O5 cathodes in aqueous Zn-ion batteries at MRS Communication!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

19.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Three graduate students in our group will present their battery-related studies at the ACS Fall meeting in DC next week. The titles of the talks, times, and locations are below;

15.08.2025 15:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you're at ECS, I have two talks this week. Come say hi. #ECSMontreal #ECS247

20.05.2025 10:57 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The project is about developing next-generation battery technologies by developing innovative polymer/gel electrolytes and designing strategies to mitigate chemo-mechanical instabilities in the electrode materials. The details of the position will be discussed with the selected candidates.

19.05.2025 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Our group has an opening for two postdoctoral research positions on battery materials. For more info & apply, please see the link below
apply.interfolio.com/167962
I am at @ECSorg meeting in Montreal so feel free to reach out if you want to know more about it as well.

19.05.2025 13:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Stay tune for more as Bret Marckx is working relentlessly to investigate charge storage mechanisms on cathode materials by synchronizing operando mechanical techniques such as curvature, DIC and QCM-D measurements.

16.03.2025 17:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Probing Electrochemical Strain Generation in Vanadium Oxide Cathodes during Cycling of Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries via Imaging Technique Aqueous batteries have received a great deal of attention for grid-scale energy storage applications but suffer from low-capacity retention and utilization. A lack of understanding of chemomechanical ...

Many congrats to Bret and Hunter for publishing study about probing electrochemical strains in aqueous Zn battery cathode during cycling. This is the first study from our group on aqueous battery cathodes and it is highlighted as "ACS Editor Choice".

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

16.03.2025 17:27 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Are you interested in aqueous batteries or do you have exciting science to share? Check out "Next Generation Aqueous Batteries: Electrodes, Electrolytes, and Interphases " symposium at 248th ECS - The Electrochemical Society Meeting in Chicago, IL on October 12-16, 2025.

06.03.2025 13:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Once the first Ph.D. student and became a dear friend, Bertan stopped at our home on his way to Michigan from Colorado 😇🤣 before starting his new job. We had a wonderful time last weekend in snowland MD.

30.01.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our group has received an NSF-DEVCOM INTERN Supplementary award. Bret Marckx will spend about 5 months at the Battery Science Branch in DEVCOM Army in 2025. This is a unique opportunity for Bret to gain experience at the Army Research Lab and will be beneficial for his career growth

18.12.2024 15:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Many thanks to Hoffman Richard from Bruker and Archana Jaiswal from Nanoscience Instruments for the on-site installation and training graduate students, Debash, Minal and Bret in the group. @cbee-umbc.bsky.social

17.12.2024 01:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was a long and exciting day in our laboratory! We installed the ALPHA-II FT-IR and will move it inside the glove box after new year! We also installed QCM-D QSense Explorer instrument with electrochemical module, and even we performed first electrodeposition of MnO2 electrode on it today!

17.12.2024 01:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very excited about this new grant from DOE to work on the chemo-mechanics of electrochemical materials for environmental remediation with Prof. Xiaowei Teng at WPI! We will be looking for a prospective Ph.D. student to join our group in Fall 2025. Please RT!

@cbee-umbc.bsky.social

25.11.2024 17:02 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0