Yuzhang Li, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received an Early Career Research Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The award will support his research on discovering the atom-scale processes that govern how lithium batteries work, with an eye toward designing safer, more efficient and longer-lasting batteries.
Specifically, Li will develop advanced imaging techniques using the cryogenic electron microscope facility at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. Such techniques will allow researchers to zoom in on the nanoscale liquid-solid interfaces inside batteries with unprecedented detail, mapping out what goes on electronically and ionically, and showing those actions in slow motion down to thousandths of a second. Information gained from the study could then be correlated with how a…
UCLA Engineering Professor Yuzhang Li Receives DOE Early Career Research Award for New Techniques to Study Batteries
