Shuya Wei at an outreach event in 2019 that demonstrates some of her battery research with lemons.
Our rapidly-expanding technology needs are fueling a robust demand for battery and electrical energy storage technologies in industries ranging from portable devices to transportation.
Although rechargeable lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries offer a great promise for reversibly storing large amounts of electrical energy at a moderate cost, those batteries are problematic due to the chemical reaction process (the complicated solution phase reaction of sulfur and poor transport of electrons and ions across the interfaces of the battery) that negatively impacts their longevity.
But a new project at The University of New Mexico is addressing those challenges.
Shuya Wei, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, is the principal investigator on…