2018

• 10.26: Luize's work on in-situ experiments of electrodes in liquid electrolyte is accepted in Experimental Mechanics. Thanks Dr. DelRio for inviting!
• 10.22: Xiaokang passes the area exam and becomes a PhD candidate, Congratulations to Xiaokang! Luize passes the prelim exam, Congratulations to Luize!
• 10.03: Dr. Zhao gave a talk at the 2018 AiMES meeting in Cancun, Thanks Prof. Lin for inviting!
• 09.28: Dr. Zhao gave a talk at the SSRL user meeting at Stanford, Thanks Dr. Liu for inviting!
• 09.21: Xianyang Wu joins us as a PhD student, welcome aboard Xianyang! Yue Guo joins us as a visiting PhD student, welcome Yue!
• 09.05: Rong defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations to Rong!
• 08.27: Our group receives a NSF fund to study chemomechanical stability of oxide cathodes. We are grateful for the NSF support!
• 07.27: Rong's paper on corrosive fracture is accepted in JMPS, Congratulations to Rong!
• 07.09: Dr. Zhao visited KIT and TU Darmstadt and gave seminars, Thanks Prof. Kamlah and Prof. Xu for the host!
• 06.08: Dr. Zhao gave a keynote talk at the 18th US National Congress on Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Thanks Dr. Yurkiv for the invitation!
• 05.23: Nikhil Sharma will join us as a PhD student this summer, welcome aboard Nikhil!
• 05.22: Dr. Zhao gave a seminar at UCLA MAE, Thanks Prof. Jin for the invitation!
• 05.13: Dr. Zhao co-organized a symposium on Mechano-Electro-Chemical Coupling in Energy Materials in 233rd ECS meeting, and presented our recent work of operando indentation on NMC cathode and Si anode.
• 04.03: Rong receives the 2018 Outstanding Research Award from the College of Engineering, Congratulations to Rong on the well-deserved award!
• 03.14: Haijun Ruan joins us as a visiting scholar, welcome Haijun!
• 03.12: Dr. Zhao gave an invited talk at TMS conference. Thanks Prof. Partha Mukherjee for the invitation
• 03.10: Dr. Zhao organized the 2018 Midwest SEM Student Conference sponsored by the Society for Experimental Mechanics. There were over 60 attendees and 20 oral presentations at Purdue ME!
• 03.08: Luize and Hong receive the Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching from the College of Engineering, Congratulations to Luize and Hong!
• 01.08: Xiaokang Wang joins us as a PhD student, welcome Xiaokang!

2017

• 12.10: Pengfei Liu joins us as a visiting scholar, welcome Pengfei!
• 12.08: Luize's paper on operando indentation is accepted in Journal of the Electrochemical Society. Congratulations to Luize and Rong!
• 12.06: Dongliang Wu is awarded the Bottomley Research Scholarship. Congratulations to Dongliang!
• 11.08: Dr. Zhao and colleagues organized the 2nd International Workshop on Mechanics of Energy Materials in Suzhou, China.
• 10.20: Rong's paper on experimental study of mechanical degradation of NMC cathode is accepted in Journal of the Electrochemical Society. Congratulations to Rong!
• 9.20: Hong's paper on first-principles modeling of SiOC is accepted in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations to Hong!
• 8.20: Welcome new graduate students Yang, Xianyang, Nikhil, and Ram, undergrad researchers Yanfei and Dong-Liang join us!
• 8.11: Dr. Zhao and colleagues organized the 3rd Midwest Mechanics of Materials and Structures workshop. The workshop received 150 registrations and over 50 presentations.
• 7.25: Dr. Zhao co-organized a symposium on mechanics of energy materials at the SES conference in Boston, he gave a talk on mechanics of composite electrodes of batteries.
• 7.12: Our group receives a NSF grant to investigate mechanics of battery materials. We are grateful for the NSF support!
• 6.26: Rong is awarded the prestigious Adelberg Fellowship and Lambert Fellowship. Congratulations to Rong!
• 6.23: Our collaborative papers are published in Progress in Materials Science and Journal of the Electrochemical Society!
• 6.02: Our group receives an EAGER grant to manufacture battery composite electrodes. We are grateful for the NSF support!
• 4.22: Rong's paper on structural degradation of NMC cathode is accepted in Experimental Mechanics. Thanks Prof. Shuman Xia for the invitation and congratulations to Rong!
• 4.17: Our group presented in the MRS spring meeting. Dr. Zhao organized a symposium on mechanics of energy materials.
• 4.11: Dr. Zhao receives the Teaching for Tomorrow Fellowship Award . Congrats to Kejie!
• 3.20: Jincheng's paper on first-principles modeling of defects in graphene is accepted in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congrats to Jincheng!
• 2.28: Hong's paper on first-principles modeling of NMC materials is accepted in JPCC without revision, Congratulations to Hong for the great work!
• 2.27: Dr. Zhao gave an invited talk at TMS conference. Thanks Prof. Partha Mukherjee for the invitation.
• 2.1: Our group receives a grant from ONR through the NEPTUNE program. We are grateful for the ONR support!