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June 2023
Congrats to Tanmay on his article, The impact of ionomeric active binder on Li-ion battery charge–discharge and rate capability, Part I: Electrolyte.
May 2023
Congratulations to Schaefer Lab graduates!
dr. jiacheng liu and dr. bumjun park
nate moller, BS ‘23, cbe alumni award
david webster, bs ‘23, cbe alumni award
Congratulations to Lingyu on her article in ACS Energy Letters! Water-Assisted Ion Conduction in Solid-State Charge-Transfer Complex Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries
March 2023
Piyush, Lingyu, and January presented their research at the ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis!
Congratulations to Jiacheng on the publication of his article in Macromolecules.
December 2022
Jordan and Jared are new graduate students in the lab. Welcome!
November 2022
Congratulations to Peng on defending and completing his dissertation! Peng is joining Exponent. We are proud of you!
Congratulations to Peng on the publication of his perspective article on Mg-S batteries in ACS Energy Letters!
August 2022
Jiacheng’s article “Li+ Transport in Single-Ion Conducting Side-Chain Polymer Electrolytes with Nanoscale Self-Assembly of Ordered Ionic Domains” is published in Macromolecules!
Peng and Lingyu presented their research at the ACS National Meeting in Chicago.
June 2022
Hannah’s paper titled “Phase Behavior and Ionic Conductivity of Blended, Ion-Condensed Electrolytes with Ordered Morphologies” is now published. Congratulations!
May 2022
We said goodbye for now to Bumjun. He will be starting his postdoctoral appointment at Idaho National Laboratory in the coming weeks. Congratulations, Dr. Park!
March 2022
Jiacheng and Schaefer presented the group’s research on ionomers and ionic liquid crystals at the APS March Meeting in Chicago.
February 2022
The last chapter in Hunter’s dissertation about polysulfide-polymer interactions impacting cycling performance of Li-S and Mg-S cells is now out in ChemPhysChem!
January 2022
Congrats to Emily and Hunter for their paper on composite gel polymer electrolytes. We thank the Peaslee group at ND for help with particle-induced gamma-emission spectroscopy (PIGE) that is here for the first time used to characterize lithium transport in inorganic-organic composite electrolytes.
Congratulations to Bumjun for publication of his paper on Coupling of 3D Porous Hosts for Li Metal Battery Anodes with Viscous Polymer Electrolytes in JES! Thank you to the Myung group for electrospinning the PAN mat and to the Bohn group for assistance with COMSOL simulations.
December 2021
New graduate student Piyush Deshpande has joined the group. Welcome, Piyush!
November 2021
Peng’s paper on magnesium polysulfides is now published!
September 2021
Bumjun’s new paper on ionic speciation and transport in novel magnesium polymer electrolytes is now published! We thank the Mindemark group at Upsalla University for the inspiration, use of their polymer, and NMR measurements, and we thank the O’Brien group at ND for help with IR spectroscopy.
Congratulations to Buket and Tanmay on the publication of the review article that they have been working on! Review—Electrolyte and Electrode Designs for Enhanced Ion Transport Properties to Enable High Performance Lithium Batteries is now available open-access via the Journal of the Electrochemical Society.
August 2021
Congratulations to Christiana Oh and the Bohn Research group for their new paper, Electrochemical Immunosensing of Interleukin-6 in Human Cerebrospinal Fluid and Human Serum as an Early Biomarker for Traumatic Brain Injury. We were happy to assist with impedance measurements!
July 2021
The group has been awarded two new grants from the NSF to study all-solid polymer batteries: CBET-2044386 “Engineering All-Solid Metal-Sulfur Batteries: Transport, Speciation, and Kinetics in Sulfur Copolymer Composite Cathodes” and CBET-2100811 “Excellence in Research: Investigation of Interfacial Chemical and Ion Transport in Solid Inorganic-Polymer Electrolytes”. Read about the first project on the ND CBE department website. The second project is in collaboration with Prof. Lamartine Meda’s group at Xavier University of Louisiana.
June 2021
Hunter has successfully defended his dissertation. We are so proud of you!
May 2021
The Schaefer lab is tenured! Yippee!!
This month we say goodbye to undergraduate researchers Emily Doyle and Seancarlos Gonzalez, who are graduating and heading off to PhD study. Emily will be joining the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, and Seancarlos is headed to the University of Washington Department of Chemical Engineering. We will miss you both very much and are looking forward to hearing about your future endevours!
April 2021
Peng, Bumjun, and Jiacheng presented their research at the virtual Spring ACS meeting, and Schaefer was a speaker in the Polymer Physics Seminar series at Pennsylvania State University.
March 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Buket Boz on her thesis defense! Buket was co-mentored with Professor Alberto Salvadori at the University of Brescia, and we have missed her since her visit to our lab ended last summer.
February 2021
This month, we welcome new ND CBE graduate student Jizhou (January) Zhang to our group! January visited our group during summer 2019. Welcome back, January!!
January 2021
We are way behind on updates! The most exciting thing that has happened lately is acceptance of Hunter, Emily, and Peng’s paper on self-discharge in magnesium-sulfur batteries in Energy and Environmental Science.
September 29, 2020
PI Schaefer was named to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 35 Under 35 list for contributions to the category ‘Energy and Environment’. Press release
September 17, 2020
Great news! The research on composite polymer electrolytes that Laura completed during her internship at Oak Ridge National Lab last summer was just released in ACS Applied Energy Materials!
August 17, 2020
Schaefer was selected as a 2020 ACS PMSE Young Investigator and will present the group’s polymer related work at the ACS meeting and auxillary event this week. Thanks to the group for doing great work!
May 20, 2020
Hunter has been selected to participate in the 2020 AIChE Area 8A Graduate Award Symposium. He will present his work on how polymer chemistry and morphology impact polysulfide transport in rechargeable batteries. Congrats!
March 30, 2020
Bumjun’s review on polymer electrolytes for Mg metal batteries has been published open access in Journal of the Electrochemical Society!
March 17, 2020
Congratulations to Hunter on his paper in ACS Materials Letters being highlighted as a Most Downloaded article!
February 20, 2020
Congratulations to Hunter on two papers out this week on single-ion conducting polymer electrolytes!
January 2, 2020
Jiacheng’s first paper on lithium transport in side-chain single-ion conducting polymer electrolytes was published in Polymer Chemistry.
November 10-14, 2019
AIChE!
November 6, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Laura! We will miss her very much when she leaves soon for Sandia!!
October 16, 2019
Schaefer presents our preliminary investigations of magnesium polysulfide flow batteries at the ECS meeting.
October 4, 2019
Bumjun’s paper on poly(ionic liquid) based electrolytes for Mg batteries is out today.
July 31, 2019
Schaefer is named an ECS Toyota Young Investigator. The group will start a new project on lithium metal batteries.
May 26 - 30, 2019
We will be at the ECS meeting - find us there! Schaefer presents on Monday, and Peng presents on Thursday.
May 8 - 14, 2019
Schaefer presents chemical engineering department seminars at UCLA, UC Riverside, and UMD. Thanks to the group for doing great work!
April 24 - 26, 2019
Hunter is at the MRS meeting in Pheonix! He presents on Friday in the Organic Materials in Electrochemical Energy Storage symposium.
April 15, 2019
Schaefer delivers the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering seminar at Cornell University.
March 24 - 26, 2019
Schaefer presents in the ACS POLY Transport in Polymer Membranes session on Monday.
March 3 - 8, 2019
We are at the APS March Meeting! Jiacheng presents on Wednesday.
February 21, 2019
Schaefer visits Clemson University to give the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering seminar.
January 17, 2019
Schaefer presents the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering seminar at Case Western Reserve University.
January 15, 2019
Congrats to Laura for winning the 2019 Patrick and Jana Eilers Graduate Student Fellowship for Energy Related Research! Also congrats to Emily and Seancarlos for selection for the 2019 Vincent P. Slatt Fellowship for Undergraduate Research in Energy Systems and Processes! See the press release here.
November 13, 2018
Hunter’s paper has been chosen for the front cover of Macromolecules!
October 28, 2018
We are busy this week at AIChE.
October 23, 2018
Morgan presents a poster at the Frontiers of Chemical Engineering Symposium at NC State University. Way to go, Morgan!
October 6, 2018
Hunter wins a poster award at the ND-Purdue Soft Matter & Polymers Symposium!
September 20, 2018
A new paper by the Phillip and Guo groups with support from the Schaefer group is out in the Journal of Membrane Science.
July 10, 2018
Dr. Schaefer presents at the TSRC Molecular Mechanisms in Electrochemical Energy Storage conference in beautiful Telluride, Colorado.
June 26, 2018
Dr. Schaefer presents the group's work at the International Symposium on Polymer Electrolytes (ISPE-16) in Yokohama, Japan!
June 7, 2018
Clay and Morgan's paper has been published open access in the Batteries Special Issue Recent Advances in Post-Lithium Ion Batteries.
May 31, 2018
Laura's paper has been accepted to Chemistry of Materials! Find it here.
May 21, 2018
Great work by @NDCBE undergrads @celmore25 and @mseidler2 now out in preprint! Our first foray into DFT with @profwschneider :)
May 20, 2018
Congrats to Connor, off to battery company A123 Systems! First Schaefer group undergrad graduated @NDCBE!
May 17, 2018
Lengthy peer-review processes are, well, lengthy. So we are embracing the preprint. Thanks @ChemRxiv! Check out our work on Electrolytes for Magnesium Batteries Using Sulfone–Ether Mixtures.
May 13, 2018
Hunter Ford presents "Crosslinked Ionomer Films for Use As Magnesium-Sulfur Battery Cathode Coatings" at the 233rd ECS Meeting in Seattle, WA
April 23, 2018
Congrats to @NDCBE undergrads Morgan Seidler @mseidler2 and Colin Brankin, Slatt Fellowship winners! Funds will support their travel to present @SchaeferLab research at the 2018 AIChE annual meeting. @ChEnected Thanks to @NotreDameEnergy!