01/06/2024
Ph.D candidate Shengqi received the Oracle Doctoral Fellowship from CSM! Congratulations Shengqi!
11/16/2023
Undergraduate researcher Dora from our team is invited to the White House with 80 other undergraduate students from across the country in honor of National First-Generation College Celebration Day! What a great honor Dora!
08/20/2023
Genna successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations Dr. Asselin! Genna is going to start her new job at Samsung as a battery scientist!
07/15/2023
Undergraduate researcher Dora received the McNair Fellowship! Congratulations!
06/30/2023
Welcome summer undergraduate intern students Andrew, Max and Vinay joining our group. Andrew received is an Ajmera Scholar from Bowdoin University. Welcome all!
02/01/2023
Paper published! Check some new results at "Electrolyte Role in SEI Evolution at Si in the Pre-lithiation Stage vs the Post-lithiation Stage" just published at JECS. https://DOI 10.1149/1945-7111/acb617
10/25/2022
Paper accepted! Check our recent publication "Evolution of the Dynamic Solid Electrolyte Interphase in Mg Electrolytes for Rechargeable Mg-Ion Batteries" at ACS Appl. Matter. Interfaces. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c13037
10/20/2022
Welcome undergraduate students Neon and Blaise to join our group for some battery research!
10/15/2022
The Sa group enjoyed the ECS meeting at Atlanta! Great trip!
09/20/2022
Saida received the ECS travel award! Congratulations Saida!
09/15/2022
Saida received the Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy! Excellent!
09/10/2022
Welcome the 1st year graduate students Leslie, Olivia joining our group!
08/15/2022
We are part of the NSF CCI center to study ion transport and electron transfer mechanisms!
03/29/2022
Dora will be a new undergraduate student lab member with our group! Welcome Dora!
03/22/2022
Welcome visiting Professor Eslam for working with us in our lab! We had a nice lunch together with Professor Eslam at Lincoln Tavern in South Boston! Our 1st lunch-together over the covid-years :)
03/21/2022
Niya gave an invited talk at ACS 2022 conference at San Diego! Had some nice discussions with many colleagues in energy storage field! Many thanks to the symposium organizers Tao and Leo!
03/28/2022
Genna received the Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy! Congratulations Genna!!
02/04/2022
Please check the most recent Mg battery paper at ACS. Appl. Energy Mater. from our group in collaboration with Professor Sheha! https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c03778
01/10/2022
Congratulations to Vincent of receiving the Louise Bronner Scholarship and the Edward Shapiro Scholarship!
01/05/2022
Congratulations to Genna of receiving the CSM Doctoral Fellowship! A prestigious award of recognizing outstanding Ph.D candidate.
10/15/2021
Welcome undergraduate researchers Vincent and Monica joining our group!
10/01/2021
Genna successfully passed her qualify exam! Congratulations!
04/20/2021
Niya received the CSM Early Career Research Excellence Award.
03/05/2021
Niya received the NSF CAREER AWARD, a prestigious award to support early-career faculty to serve as academic role models in research and education. Many thanks to NSF! Check the following news:
02/15/2021
Congratulations to graduate students Genna, Zicheng, and the undergraduate researchers Olivia and Weiqi for the accepted manuscript of a new battery electrolyte design and evaluation on JECS! Great job!
02/05/2021
Saida's 1st author paper about interfacial evolution of SEI is accepted to ACS. Applied Materials and Interfaces! Congratulations Saida!
01/06/2021
Welcome the two Undergraduate Scholar recipients Suely LopesPereira and Camila Muneton joining our research group and work on the funded Cottrell Scholars Project.
10/01/2020
Niya is a member of the newly funded Cottrell Scholars Collaborative Research, in collaboration with Ardo Group at UC-Irvine, Boettcher Group at U Oregon, Markland Group at Stanford, Minus Group at Prairie View A&M University, Surendranath Group at MIT, and Wang Group at CSU-Los Angeles. The goal of this collaborative is to expand opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in prolonged research experiences early in their studies.
3/3/2020
Our latest research "A Simple Halogen-Free Magnesium Electrolyte for Reversible Magnesium Deposition through Cosolvent Assistance" is on the cover story! Check it out on doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b18833
10/15/2019
Welcome new group members Zicheng, Huiyi and Teayeon!
9/16/2019
We are very grateful for the NSF MRI support of getting an advanced FESEM! Thank you!
3/22/2019
Just accepted! A recent research article from our team entitled "Direct Observation of MgO Formation at Cathode Electrolyte Interface of a Spinel MgCo2O4 Cathode Upon Electrochemical Mg Removal and Insertion" is just accepted by the Journal of Power Sources.
12/20/2018
The group had the end of semester celebration at Worden Hall Restaurant!
11/15/2018
Niya is awarded the Faculty Development Award from UMass! Many thanks to the donors!
11/10/2018
We were part of the “Women and Girls in STEM Event” at the Museum of Science in Boston! Many thanks to the Science Museum and Dr Susan Heilman for organizing such a fantastic event. We had a great opportunity to meet many children and teenagers from local families who are passionate about science! We were very happy to serve our role of explaining how energy related research work is carried in a lab. We also made many new friends!
9/20/2018
Our group warmly welcome two new graduate students, Saida and Shengqi to join in the team! Welcome Genna and Jeremy to start their 1st semester rotation in our group.
8/20/2019
Our group had a blast at the 256th ACS National Meeting! Niya hosted the Analysis of Materials in Energy Storage Symposium. Saida, Weiqi, Olivia and Shengqi presented a poster. Niya delivered an invited talk about Mg battery research at the Division of Energy and Fuels. Many thanks to Professor Baker and Professor Schaefer for their support!
7/28/2018
Niya gave an invited talk at the Current Science and Technology Stage at the Museum of Science! This talk is about electrochemistry and its application in energy science to the general public. Such topic attracted many public audience, we got many great questions too!
7/16/2018
Check the new article about the thiospinel Mg cathode work! Congratulations Allison!
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01417
4/25/2018
Welcome Suzalmurni Ahmad, Olivia Paden and Kristine Maines joining the group!
2/26/2018
Niya received the Joseph P. Healey Award from UMass!
2/7/2018
Weiqi won two Undergraduate Fellowship from UMass campus. Congratulations!
12/22/2017
Saida won the Undergraduate Research Fellowship from UMass. She will be awarded with a research fund to carry energy related research work in our lab. Congratulations!
12/19/2017
We had our first Christmas getting together at Wooden Hall Restaurant!
12/5/2017
Anthia was selected for the Research Immersion Project (RIP) that supports her to carry an independent research project in winter 2018. Congratulations!
11/26/2017
Vanna, Brandon and Niya stopped at the MRS conference held at Boston
11/13/2017
Weiqi joins the group aiming to learn some battery technology, welcome!
10/19/2017
Brandon joins the group as a Ph.D student, welcome!
10/17/2017
Anthia joins the group as a senior student, welcome!
10/16/2017
Saida joins the group as a senior student, welcome!
10/16/2017
Niya gave the UMB graduate research seminar
10/3/2017
Niya presented a research talk entitled Designing New Magnesium-based Cathode Materials in the 232nd ECS meeting in National Harbor
10/2/2017
Niya chaired the Beyond Lithium Ion Session in the 232nd ECS meeting in National Harbor, Washington DC
9/6/2017
Vanna joins the group as a graduate student, welcome!
8/30/2017
Niya won the Argonne Postdoc Performance Award. Shortly after this, the Sa research lab starts at UMass-Boston.