2022 Annual Meeting

(2ai) Battery Materials Harvesting

Author

Research Interests:

Achieving net zero carbon emission and ending the fossil fuel economy require the implementation of renewable energy sources like wind, solar, tidal, etc. Electrochemical systems for energy conversion and storage represent a promising approach to powering a decarbonized future community. However, with more My research interests encompass the science and engineering of energy storage materials that enable high-energy solid-state Li-metal batteries, fast-charging Li-ion batteries, high valence batteries, and ultrahigh power supercapacitors. The main focus has always been on rational design and synthesis of novel materials and multimodal characterization of structure-property relations. Meanwhile their applications in energy storage devices will be pursued to address the critical challenges on energy density, charge rate and reliable safety. In addition, harvesting materials from retired and/or died batteries through chemical/physical processes will be explored to resolve battery-materials crisis.

Through a combination for materials design, synthesis, multimodal characterization, device performance test, cycled materials harvesting, I intend to pursue critical problems related to: (1) Design and synthesis of novel materials for high-energy and high-power application; (2) Probing material composite-structure-property relations; (3) Scale-up of solid-state batteries; (4) Building “green” harvesting method to recycle batteries materials

Teaching Interests:

My educational and research experiences have given me foundational knowledge in multiple subjects in the disciplines of Chemical Engineering and Technology (Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Principles of Chemical Engineering, etc.) as well as Materials Science and Engineering (Physical Foundations of Material Science, Materials Characterization, Material Design, Solid State Physics, etc.). This background enables me to effectively teach a wide range of courses.

I am confident to teach major lectures such as Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Environmental Engineering, related courses. I will focus on (1) providing undergraduates with a solid foundation in basic mathematics, science, and humanities, as well as fundamental knowledge of relevant engineering principles; (2) providing students with the capability for critical thinking, engineering reasoning, problem solving, experimentation, and teamwork; (3) preparing undergraduates for advanced study and/or professional employment within a wide array of industries or governmental agencies; (4) producing undergraduates who understand ethical issues associated with their profession, and who are able to apply their acquired knowledge and skills to the betterment of society; and (5) fostering in students a respect for the educational process that is manifest by a lifelong pursuit of learning.

Grant Application Experience

- Experience in the grant opportunity search, proposal writing and project management

- Experience with government agencies of DARPA, NSF

- Worked with industries partners, such Hyundai, Shell, Ericsson

Postdoctoral Projects:

2021.09-present

Postdoctoral Associate (Advisor: Prof. Fikile Brushett and Prof. Jennifer Rupp)

in Department of Chemical Engineering

- “Functionalized carbon materials boost fast-charging battery-supercapacitor hybrid”

- “Probing the interface issue between cathode/garnet electrolyte in solid-state battery”

- “Lithionics for Neural Computing Operations”

2020.01-2021.08

Postdoctoral Associate/Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Jennifer Rupp)

in Department of Materials Science and Engineering

- “Probing the interface issue between cathode/garnet electrolyte in solid-state battery”

- “Functionalized carbon materials boost fast-charging battery-supercapacitor hybrid”

2018.09-2019.12

Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Jeehwan Kim)

in Research Lab of Electronics

- “All solid-state thin film battery with single crystalline electrolyte by remote epitaxial growth”

- “Two-dimensional electron gas from remote epitaxial process”

Collaboration Industrial Leadership

· Ericsson, Sweden - Lithionic Memristor for neural nextworks

· Shell, USA - Battery-supercapacitor hybrid devices enabled by multiwalled carbon nanotubes

· Hyundai, South Korea - All solid-state thin film battery with single crystalline electrolyte by remote epitaxial growth

Professional Activities

Journal reviewer

- Nature Energy, ACS Nano, JMCA, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Applied Energy, Applied Physics A, J. Phys. Chem. C, Chemistry of Materials, Nanoscale, Journal of Electro ceramics, Materials Advances, SN Applied Sciences

Selected Publications:

1. Kun Joong Kim, Moran Balaish, Masaki Wadaguchi, Lingping Kong, Jennifer L. M. Rupp, “Solid‐State Li–Metal Batteries: Challenges and Horizons of Oxide and Sulfide Solid Electrolytes and Their Interfaces”, Adv. Energy Mater. 2020, 2002689.

2. Wei Kong, Hyun Kum, Sang-Hoon Bae, Jaewoo Shim, Hyunseok Kim, Lingping Kong, Yuan Meng, Kejia Wang, Chansoo Kim, Jeehwan Kim, “Path towards graphene commercialization from lab to market”, Nature Nanotechnology, 2019 (14), 927–938.

3. Lingping Kong, Xiaoteng Liu, Jinjia Wei, Steven Wang, Ben Bin Xu, Donghui Long, Fei Chen, “T-Nb2O5 nanoparticle enabled pseudocapacitance with fast Li-ion intercalation”, Nanoscale, 2018, 10 (29), 14165-14170.

4. Lingping Kong, Chuanfang Zhang, Jitong Wang, Wenming Qiao, Licheng Ling and Donghui Long, “Nanoarchitectured Nb2O5 hollow, Nb2O5@carbon and NbO2@carbon Core-Shell Microspheres for Ultrahigh-Rate Intercalation Pseudocapacitors”, Scientific Reports, 2016, doi:10.1038/srep21177.

5. Lingping Kong, Xiaodong Cao, Jitong Wang, Wenming Qiao, Licheng Ling and Donghui Long, “Revisiting the Li+ intercalation into various crystalline phases of Nb2O5 anchored on graphene sheets as pseudocapacitive electrodes”, Journal of Power Sources, 2016, 309, 42-49.

6. Lingping Kong, Chuanfang Zhang, Jitong Wang, Wenming Qiao, Licheng Ling, and Donghui Long, “Free-Standing T-Nb2O5/Graphene Composite Papers with Ultrahigh Gravimetric/ Volumetric Capacitance for Li-Ion Intercalation Pseudocapacitor”, ACS Nano, 2015, 9 (11), 11200-11208.

7. Lingping Kong, Chuanfang Zhang, Songmin Zhang, Jitong Wang, Rong Cai, Chunxiang Lv, Wenming Qiao, Licheng Ling and Donghui Long, “High-power and high-energy asymmetric supercapacitors based on Li+-intercalation into a T-Nb2O5/graphene pseudocapacitive electrode”, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 17962-17970.

Patents:

1. Jeehwan Kim, Wei Kong, Sanghoon Bae, Lingping Kong, Hyunseong Kum, Yang Shao-Horn, Yang Yu. “Fabrication of single-crystalline ionically conductive materials and related articles and systems”, Published 12 August 2021. International Publication Number: WO 2021/158731 A1

2. Yuntong Zhu, Moran Balaish, Lingping Kong, Jennifer L.M. Rupp. “Spray pyrolysis of Li-salt films”, Filed 15 November 2021. Application No. PCT/US2021/059339