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Advanced Battery Modeling Framework Featured on Cover of Energy & Environmental Science
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu’s research, “A Microstructural Electrochemo-Mechanical Model of High-Nickel Composite Electrodes Towards Digital Twins To Bridge the Particle and Electrode-Level Characterizations,” was featured on the back cover of Energy & Environmental Science.
2024 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes those who published a paper in 2024 or later.
Zhu Co-Leads Battery Sustainability Efforts at MIT Workshop
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu co-organized the third annual Battery Sustainability Workshop at MIT, which focused on sustainable battery science and featured keynotes and industry talks.
$3.6M ARPA-E Award To Extend Battery Life and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu, in collaboration with Dr. Fei Wang from Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics (PI), was awarded a $3,677,038 ARPA-E grant for “EV Battery Lifetime Extension With Material Intelligence (EVERMORE)” in the Catalyzing Innovative Research for Circular Use of Long-lived Advanced Rechargeables (CIRCULAR) program.
ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship To Develop More Sustainable EV Batteries
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu is one of only three individuals to receive an Electrochemical Society Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship this year. He will conduct research to assess the condition of batteries in electric vehicles using mechano-electrochemical techniques that will identify a battery’s physical changes to determine its overall health.
Advancing EV Battery Technology
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Ford University Research Program (URP) designated for developing advanced EV battery cell models.
Developing Hybrid Battery Management Systems To Protect Freezing Batteries
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu and MIE Professor Hongwei Sun are exploring how to better protect batteries from extreme temperatures by determining what happens during exposure and developing a temperature management system to regulate battery temperatures.
Spring 2024 AJC Merit Research Scholars
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2024 AJC Merit Research Scholars from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, which funds a co-op in the laboratory of a Northeastern University STEM faculty member.
Center for Battery Sustainability and the 2nd Workshop
Faculty, researchers, students, and industry leaders gathered at the 2nd Battery Sustainability Workshop to discuss sustainability, recycling, and more. MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu, along with MIT professors Martin Z. Bazant and Richard D. Braatz, founded the Center for Battery Sustainability, after participating in last year’s event.
2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
Making Electric Vehicle Batteries More Sustainable
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu’s team is using a unique approach involving mechanical measurements to develop diagnostics strategies for battery health by providing more direct information on how batteries deform, fail, and even explode. The research could lead to extending electric vehicle battery lifespans and their redesign to allow for refurbishment.
Successful Workshop on Battery Sustainability
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu and his team organized the first Battery Sustainability Workshop on the Boston campus of Northeastern. It was a two-day event, jointly hosted by two MIT chemical engineering professors, and triggered wide interest in EV, battery, renewable energy, consumer electronics, and materials companies.
Bai and Zhu Awarded Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grants
MIE Assistant Professors Ruobing Bai and Juner Zhu were awarded the 2022 Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant from the Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME. The intent of the grant, […]
New Faculty Spotlight: Juner Zhu
Juner Zhu joins the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in August 2022 as an Assistant Professor.