News
July 2023
- Congratulations to Ryan Andris for a successful defense of his PhD Thesis titled “Creating a Two-Dimensional Heterointerface in Layered Oxide Electrodes for Advanced Electrochemical Energy Storage!
- Welcome to Kriti Panchal, co-supervised by Prof. Steven May and Dr. Shahram Amini from Pulse Technologies, who joined the group as the PhD student!
June 2023
- Congratulations to Huyen and Prithvi for winning the 3rd prize in the poster competition at the “Materials and Sustainability Research” event at Drexel University!
- Prof. Pomerantseva presented an invited talk titled “Materials Design and Synthesis for Sustainable Energy and Water Technologies” and Ryan Andris, Xinle Zhang, Huyen Nguyen and Prithvi Ravi shared their research as posters at the “Materials and Sustainability Research” event at Drexel University.
- Ryan Andris, Michael J. Zachman, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, “Using Cations to Create a Bilayered Vanadium Oxide and Reduced Graphene Oxide Heterointerface for Li-ion Batteries”
Prof. Pomerantseva presented an invited talk titled “Materials Design and Synthesis for Sustainable Energy and Water Technologies” and Ryan Andris, Xinle Zhang, Huyen Nguyen and Prithvi Ravi shared their research as posters at the “Materials and Sustainability Research” event at Drexel University.- Ryan Andris, Michael J. Zachman, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, “Using Cations to Create a Bilayered Vanadium Oxide and Reduced Graphene Oxide Heterointerface for Li-ion Batteries”
- Xinle Zhang, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, “Hybrid Bilayered Vanadium Oxide Cathode Materials with Tunable Interlayer Spacing for Lithium-ion Batteries”.
- Huyen Nguyen, Prithvi Ravi, Timofey Averianov, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, “Versatile Green Chemistry of MXene-derived Bilayered Vanadium Oxides as Cathode Materials for Aqueous Zinc-ion Batteries”.
Congratulations to Cyra Gallano for a successful defense of her Master’s Thesis titled “Tuning the Interlayer Region Chemistry for Enhanced Energy Storage Behavior of Bilayered Vanadium Oxide Electrodes!- Congratulations to Xinle for passing his candidacy exam!
May 2023
- Congratulations to Darrell Omo-Lamai for a successful defense of his Master’s Thesis titled “Improving Charge Transport in Integrated MoO3/C Electrode Materials for Water-In-Salt Energy Storage Systems by Incorporating Oxygen Vacancies!”
- Congratulations to Ryan for passing his PhD pre-defense exam!
- New paper published! R. Andris, T. Averianov, M.J. Zachman, E. Pomerantseva, “Cation-Driven Assembly of Bilayered Vanadium Oxide and Graphene Oxide Nanoflakes to From Two-Dimensional Heterostructure Electrodes for Li-Ion Batteries”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15 (2023) 26525–26537, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c22916.
April 2023
- Ryan Andris, Timofey Averianov and Xinle Zhang presented their research at the Drexel Emerging Graduate Scholars (DEGS) conference.
- R. Andris, E. Pomerantseva, “Layering vanadium pentoxide with reduced graphene oxide to form 2D heterostructures for improved Li-ion batteries” (talk)
- T. Averianov, E. Pomerantseva, “Bilayered potassium vanadium oxides derived from MXenes as cathode materials in non-aqueous K-ion batteries” (poster)
- X. Zhang, E. Pomerantseva, “Hybrid bilayered vanadium oxide cathode materials with tunable interlayer spacing for lithium-ion batteries” (poster)
March 2023
- Prof. Pomerantseva presented an invited talk titled “ Chemically prepotassiated electrodes for K-ion batteries” at the ACS Spring 2023 Meeting.
- Ryan Andris presented his research as a poster titled “Two-dimensional bilayered vanadium oxide and reduced graphene oxide heterostructures for Li-ion batteries” at the International Battery Seminar
- Prof. Pomerantseva presented an invited talk titled “Intercalation electrodes for energy storage: control over confined environments and heterointerfaces via materials synthesis” at the Gordon Research Conference “Nanomaterials for applications in energy technology”
February 2023
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New paper published!Saraf, T. Zhang, T. Averianov, C.E. Shuck, R.W. Lord, E. Pomerantseva, Y. Gogotsi, “Vanadium and Niobium MXenes – Bilayered V2O5 Asymmetric Supercapacitors”. Small Methods (2023) 2201551, DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202201551.
- Welcome to Huyen (Anna) Nguyen, co-supervised by Prof. Yury Gogotsi, who joined the group as the Erasmus Mundus Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion+ (MESC+) Master’s student to work on her thesis research project!
- Prof. Pomerantseva gave an invited seminar titled “Tuning energy storage properties of nanostructured bilayered vanadium oxides through controlled synthesis” at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in North Carolina State University.
January 2023
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Congratulations to Tim for passing his proposal exam!
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New paper published!Zhang, T. Averianov, R. Andris, M.J. Zachman, E. Pomerantseva, “Liquid Phase Exfoliation of Chemically Prelithiated Bilayered Vanadium Oxide in Aqueous Media for Li-Ion Batteries”. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 127 (2023) 919-929; DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c06875
December 2022
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New paper published!E. Pomerantseva, “Chemical Preintercalation Synthesis of Versatile Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage”. Accounts of Chemical Research 56 (2023) 13-24; DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.2c00193
November 2022
- Ryan Andris, Timofey Averianov and Darrell Omo-Lamai shared their research as talks at the 2022 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
Andris, T. Averianov, E. Pomerantseva, “Cation-driven assembly of two-dimensional reduced graphene oxide/bilayered vanadium oxide heterostructures for Li-ion batteries.” - Averianov, E. Pomerantseva, “MXene-derived chemically pre-potassiated bilayered vanadium oxides as cathodes in non-aqueous K-ion batteries.”
- Omo-Lamai, N. Norouzi, T. Averianov, F. Alimohammadi, E. Pomerantseva, “Improving the charge storage of α-MoO3 electrodes in zinc-ion batteries via chemical incorporation of dopamine-derived carbon.”
October 2022
- Timofey Averianov presented a talk titled “Assembly of two-dimensional δ-V2O5·nH2O and Ti3C2Tx nanoflakes towards heterostructure electrodes for Li-ion batteries” and Darrell Omo-Lamai presented a talk titled “Molybdenum oxide/dopamine-derived carbon electrodes with enhanced electrochemical activity in energy storage systems” at the 242nd ECS Meeting.
- Ryan Andris presented a talk titled “Dopamine assisted phase transformation and electrochemical charge storage properties of vanadium oxide/carbon composite electrodes” at the MS&T 2022 conference.
- Welcome to Prithvi Ravi, who joined the group as the MS student!
September 2022
- Congratulations to Marcelo Amaro de Andrade for a successful defense of his Master’s Thesis titled “Oxides Derived from Solid-Solution V-Nb Carbides (MXene) for Energy Storage Applications!”
- New paper published!
Saraf, C.E. Shuck, N. Norouzi, K. Matthews, A. Inman, T. Zhang, E. Pomerantseva, Y. Gogotsi, “Free-Standing α-MoO3/Ti3C2 MXene Hybrid Electrode in Water-in-Salt Electrolytes”. Energy & Environmental Materials (2022) DOI: 10.1002/eem2.12516. - Prof. Pomerantseva presented an invited virtual seminar titled “Chemical preintercalation synthesis of electrode materials: opportunities and challenges for electrochemical energy storage” in Universal Display Corporation
Ryan Andris, Xinle Zhang, Darrell Omo-Lamai and Cyra Gallano presented their research as posters at the Science History Institute “Start Talking Science” event series.
R. Andris, E. Pomerantseva, Integrating layered vanadium and graphene oxides for next generation Li-ion batteries.
X. Zhang, E. Pomerantseva, Bilayered vanadium oxide cathode materials with large interlayer spacing for lithium-ion batteries.D. Omo-Lamai, E. Pomerantseva, The development of a novel electrode material for water-based batteries.C. Gallano, E. Pomerantseva, Formation of high quality, pure bilayered vanadium oxides for new battery materials.- Prof. Pomerantseva gave a lecture titled “You Think You Know about Batteries?” at the 2-day course MATE 100 “Materials for Emerging Technologies”
August 2022
- Prof. Pomerantseva presented an invited talk titled “Chemically preintercalated bilayered vanadium oxides derived from V2CTx MXene for energy storage applications” at the 2nd International Conference “MXenes: Addressing Global Challenges with Innovation”. Timofey Averianov and Marcelo Andrade shared their research as posters titled “Enhanced electrochemistry of bilayered vanadium oxide by heterostructure assembly with Ti3C2Tx MXene nanoflakes for Li-ion batteries “ and “Synthesis and characterization of (NbxV2-x)CTx solid-solution MXenes and their H2O2-induced transformation to oxides “, respectively.
June 2022
- Welcome to Juan Cruz who joined the group as the STAR (Students Tackling Advanced Research) program scholar!
- Prof. Pomerantseva visited the laboratory of Prof. Patrice Simon at the Paul Sabatier University in France, as a part of the Erasmus Mundus Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion+ (MESC+) Visiting Scholar Program. They discussed and carried out the research on energy storage properties of MXene-derived chemically preintercalated bilayered vanadium oxides in aqueous energy storage systems with the focus on aqueous Zn-ion batteries. Prof. Pomerantseva gave a seminar “Synthesis of Versatile Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage via Chemical Preintercalation Approach”.
- Prof. Pomerantseva presented an invited talk titled “Chemical Preintercalation Synthesis of versatile electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage” at the 50th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM) of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
May 2022
- Materials Electrochemistry Group celebrated the end of the school year and all its achievements this year!
- Congratulations to Raymond Zhang for a successful defense of his Master’s Thesis titled “Exfoliation of Bilayered Vanadium Oxide and Oxide/MXene Heterostructure Assembly for Energy Storage”!
- Prof. Pomerantseva presented a talk titled “MXene-Derived Oxides as Electrodes for Energy Storage” at the 2022 Spring MRS Meeting in Honolulu, 2D MXenes – Synthesis, Properties and Applications symposium.
April 2022
- New paper published
Mallory Clites, Adam Blickley, David A. Cullen, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Chemical preintercalation synthesis approach for the formation of new layered tungsten oxides, Journal of Materials Science, 57 (2022) 7814-7826https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10853-022-07190-z - Kiet Tran, co-supervised by Prof. Steven May, started working on his coop projects in Materials Electrochemistry Group.
- Congratulations to Tim for passing his candidacy exam!
New paper published
Nazgol Norouzi, Darrell Omo-Lamai, Farbod Alimohammadi, Timofey Averianov, Jason Kuang, Shan Yan, Lei Wang, Eli Stavitski, Denis Leshchev, Kenneth J. Takeuchi, Esther S. Takeuchi, Amy C. Marschilok, David C. Bock, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, The Dopamine Assisted Synthesis of MoO3/Carbon Electrodes With Enhanced Capacitance in Aqueous Electrolyte, Frontiers in Chemistry 10 (2022) 873462https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062078/
New paper published
Ryan Andris, Timofey Averianov, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Phase transformation and electrochemical charge storage properties of vanadium oxide/carbon composite electrodes synthesized via integration with dopamine, Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2022)https://ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jace.18502
March 2022
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- Darrell Omo-Lamai and Cyra Gallano started working on their coop projects in Materials Electrochemistry Group.
- Raymond Zhang presented a poster titled “Liquid Phase Exfoliation of Bilayered Vanadium Oxide for Assembly of Two Dimensional Heterostructures for Li-ion Batteries” at the International Battery Seminar in Orlando and met with the group alumnus Dr. Bryan Byles.
Prof. Pomerantseva visited the laboratory of Prof. Matthew Suss at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, as a part of the Stein Fellowship Program. They discussed selective ion removal using capacitive ion deionization (CDI) systems and potential of increasing selectivity using intercalation compounds. Prof. Pomerantseva gave a seminar “Tunnel and Layered Intercalation Compounds for Water Desalination via Hybrid Capacitive Deionization”.
February 2022
- Welcome to Marcelo Andrade, co-supervised by Prof. Yury Gogotsi, who joined the group as the Erasmus Mundus Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion+ (MESC+) Master’s student to work on his thesis research project!
- Prof. Pomerantseva gave an invited seminar “Chemical Preintercalation Synthesis of Versatile Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage” in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland College Park.
January 2022
- New paper published
Timofey Averianov, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Composite Li-ion battery cathodes formed via integration of carbon nanotubes or graphene nanoplatelets into chemical preintercalation synthesis of bilayered vanadium oxides, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 903 (2022) 163929https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925838822003206 
New paper published
Nazgol Norouzi, Timofey Averianov, Jason Kuang, David C. Bock, Shan Yan, Lei Wang, Kenneth J. Takeuchi, Esther S. Takeuchi, Amy C. Marschilok, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Hierarchically structured MoO2/dopamine-derived carbon spheres as intercalation electrodes for lithium-ion batteries, Materials Today Chemistry 24 (2022) 100783
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246851942200012X
December 2021
- Prof. Pomerantseva presented an invited talk titled “Synthetic Control of Nanostructured Bilayered Vanadium Oxides for Intercalation Batteries” at the virtual Pacifichem 2021 conference, Nanostructured Oxides for Energy Harvesting, Conversion and Storage symposium
October 2021
- Raymond Zhang shared his research the annual MS&T21 meeting in Columbus as a poster titled “Liquid Phase Exfoliation of Two-Dimensional Bilayered Vanadium Oxide in Aqueous Media for Li ion Batteries”.
- Prof. Pomerantseva presented an invited talk at the on-demand “Energy Materials for Sustainable Development” session of the annual MS&T21 meeting titled “Lessons learned from materials enriching sustainable energy storage solutions”.
- Congratulations to Ryan for passing his proposal exam!
September 2021
- We celebrated the beginning of the school year by having a group dinner at Harper’s Garden.
- Welcome to Xinle (Leo) Zhang who joined the group as an MS Student in September.
- Welcome to Dr. Farbod Alimohammadi who joined the group as a postdoc in September.
June 2021
- Materials Electrochemistry Group celebrated the end of the school year and all its achievements this year!
- Ryan Andris and Timofey Averianov participated in the Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM) of the American Chemical Society.
Ryan presented a talk titled “Improving electrochemical behavior of layered oxides through the intercalation and heat treatment of carbon precursors for next generation cathodes”.
Tim presented a talk titled “Improvement of electron transport in cathodes via integration of nanostructured carbons with layered oxides for high power Li-ion batteries”.
May 2021
- Congratulations to Michael Barsoum on successfully defending his Master’s Thesis titled “Hybrid capacitive deionization of mixed and single ion solutions using 1D and 2D advanced functional materials”!
- Raymond Zhang participated in the Week of Undergraduate Excellence at Drexel University and presented a poster titled “Exploring the liquid phase exfoliation of 𝛿-LixV2O5 flakes in aqueous media for energy storage applications”.
April 2021
- Michael Barsoum, Timofey Averianov and Ryan Andris participated in the Drexel Emerging Graduate Scholars Conference.
Mike presented a talk titled “Hybrid capacitive deionization of mixed ion solutions using tunnel manganese oxide nanowires”.
Tim presented a talk titled “Nanoscale bilayered vanadium oxide/carbon composites for improved electron transport in high-power Li-ion batteries”.Ryan presented a talk titled “Integrating high capacity transition metal oxides with conductive carbon to form 2D layered cathodes for improved Li-ion batteries” and have been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Drexel Emerging Graduate Scholars (DEGS) Conference award for Third Place Oral Research Presentation. Congratulations, Ryan! - Cyra Gallano presented a talk at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research titled “Reconstructing layered framework of 2D transition metal carbides (MXenes) via modification of anionic sublattice toward formation of new oxides”. This is the largest symposium of undergraduate research in the world. Congratulations, Cyra!
March 2021
- Raymond Zhang and Darrell Omo-Lamai started working on their coop projects in Materials Electrochemistry Group.
- New paper published
Luke Houseman, Santanu Mukherjee, Ryan Andris, Michael Zachman, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Free-standing bilayered vanadium oxide films synthesized by liquid exfoliation of chemically preintercalated δ-LixV2O5·nH2O, Materials Advances 2 (2021) 2711-2718
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ma/d1ma00085c/li> - Prof. Pomerantseva presents an invited talk at the annual TMS 2021 meeting & exhibition titled “Synthetic control of nanostructured bilayered vanadium oxides for intercalation batteries”.
February 2021
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- Prof. Pomerantseva presents a talk at the annual M2m/t Energy Frontiers Research Center meeting titled “The effect of chemically preintercalated alkali ions on the structure of layred titanates and their electrochemistry in aqueous energy storage systems”
January 2021
- New paper published
Bryan W. Byles and Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Effect of 1D diffusion channel size and ionic content on Li+ ion and Na+ ion diffusion in tunnel manganese oxides, Materialia 15 (2021) 101013
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2589152921000168 - New paper published
Ryan Andris, Phillip Ridley, Bryan W. Byles, David A. Cullen, Karren L. More, and Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Synthesis strategies toward improved ordering of [MnO6] octahedra in tunnel structured 2×3 and 2×4 MnO2, Scripta Materialia 195 (2021) 113713
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359646220308356