2016

• 11.14: A review article on electro-chemo-mechanics of Li-ion batteries is published in the ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, Thanks Prof. Partha Mukherjee for the invitation and congratulations to Rong.
• 11.09: The EML special issue on Mechanics of Energy Materials edited by Prof. Zhao and Prof. Cui is out. Look at the cover here.
• 10.27: Hong passes the area exam and becomes a PhD candidate, congratulations to Hong!
• 10.25: Dr. Zhao gave an invited presentation in the MS&T conference on transition metal diborides.
• 10.14: The paper by Rong and Luize is reported in the front news of MRS Bulletin!
• 10.04: Yang Ding is awarded the Bottomley Undergrad Research Scholar. Congratulations to Yang!
• 09.18: Dr. Zhao receives the 2016 Extreme Mechanics Letters Young Investigator Award, Congratulations to Kejie!
• 08.15: Luize joins us as a PhD student, welcome back Luize!
• 08.02: The paper on composite electrodes is accepted on JMR as an invited feature paper. Congratulations to Rong and Luize on the good work!
• 06.23: The paper on MoO3 is accepted in Nano Energy. Congratulations to Yonghe and Hong on the good work.
• 06.03: Our group received a NSF grant to investigate surface coating of high-capacity Li-ion batteries. We are grateful for the NSF support!
• 05.31: Dr. Kejie Zhao visited 3M and gave a talk in University of Minnesota. Thank you Dr. Xiaohua Ma for the sponsorship and Prof. Jialiang Le for the host!
• 05.27: Luize Vasconcelos defended her master thesis. Congratulations to Luize!
• 04.12: The paper on first-principles modeling of transition metal diborides is accepted in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
• 03.01: The paper on grid nanoindentation of composite battery materials is accepted in Extreme Mechanics Letters, Congratulations to Luize!
• 02.23: Dr. Kejie Zhao is selected to receive the 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award. We are grateful for the 3M support!
• 02.08: Rong's paper is selected as an outstanding abstract for the 2016 MRS Spring conference. We are invited to submit a review article on the subject to the Journal of Materials Research!
• 01.12: Dr. Zhao becomes IMPACT fellow for transformative teaching of Mechanics of Materials.

2015

• 11.26: Dongwoo Lee, along with Prof. Vlassak, wins the Outstanding Presentation Award at MRS on our collaborative work of nanoreactive layers!
• 11.25: Waikien Goh is awarded the Bottomley Undergrad Research Scholar. Congratulations to Waikien!
• 11.10: We demonstrated the prototype and electrochemical principles of batteries in the Innovation 2 Reality (I2R) outreach to 6-8th grade students!
• 10.1-10.31: Our collaborative papers were accepted in Nano Letters, Advanced Energy Materials, Nature Communications!
• 10.30: Dr. Zhao gave a seminar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Houston.
• 10.28: The paper on mechanical interactions in Li-ion batteries is accepted in Extreme Mechanics Letters, Congratulations to Rong!
• 10.28: Dr. Zhao gave a seminar in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Texas A&M.
• 10.26: Dr. Zhao organized a symporium on "Mechanics in Energy Storage and Conversion" in the SES annual conference at Texas A&M.
• 09.10: Welcome the new member, Jincheng Lei, to join our group as a visiting PhD student!
• 08.27: Our paper on Zr-B is accepted in Nano Letters!
• 08.26: Our group attended the 1st Midwest Workshop on Mechanics of Materials and Structures at UIUC. Rong and Luize presented their research, good job Rong and Luize!
• 08.18: Welcome the new member, Hong Sun, to join our group as a PhD student!
• 07. 25: Our group participated in the "Science and Engineering: Heat, Light, and Power" affair for little kids at Imagination Station in Lafayette, IN, great fun!
• 07. 11: Our group demonstrated electrochemistry in the Engineering FYI:  For Your Imagination (EFYI) to the 6-8th grade girls with more than 100 participants!
• 06.15-07.02: Dr. Zhao gave invited talks at Peking University, National University of Singapore, and ICMAT 2015 conference.
• 05.22: The paper on nanotwinned Ni is accepted for publication in Scripta Materialia! The paper is in the most downloaded articles of Scripta Materialia!
• 05.06: The paper on ZnO battery is accepted for publication in the special issue of Mechanics of Materials!
• 05.01: Rong passed the qualification exam. Congratulations to Rong to be the PhD candidate!
• 04.08: Dr. Kejie Zhao presented an invited talk in the MRS spring conference, and chaired a session in the symposium of "Mechanics of Energy Storage and Conversion".
• 02.01: The undergraduate researchers, Hanlin Wang and Haoran Zhang, received the Perry Research Scholarship, Congratulations to Hanlin and Haoran!

2014

• 11.04. The first research article at Purdue was accepted in Nano Letters!
• 10.13. Dr. Kejie Zhao received the Haythornthwait Research Initiation Grants from ASME. We are grateful for the ASME support!
• 10.01. Dr. Kejie Zhao co-organized a symposium on Mechanics and Electrochemistry of Energy Storage Materials in the annual conference of SES at Purdue University.
• 08.18. Our group starts in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue. Welcome our first member, Rong Xu, join in the group as a PhD student!