News

[Grant] (05/20/2025) Awarded from Upstate NY Energy Storage Engine: R&D Project Round 2

Dr. Ma received a $177,274 grant award from the NSF Upstate New York Energy Storage Engine. The co-PIs include Dr. Hui Zhou at NECCES of BU and Dr. Jeremy May from TA Instruments. The prject aims to develop a new tester enabling real-time thermal and chemical behaviors characterization for Li-metal batteries. 

[Award] (04/25/2025) The senior project team won the Best Presentation in the 2025 GEN Keith Memorial Capstone Conference

The undergraduate students team, including Abel Alex, Erin Block, Lily Casey, Azan Iftikhar, Emelia Lemza, Kaitlyn O鈥橠ell, won the Best Presentation in the 2025 GEN Keith Memorial Capstone Conference. Their project, entitled "Process Evaluation for Graphite Recycling from Spent Lithium-ion Batteries", performed at ASERL under the supervising of Dr. Xiaotu Ma, Dr. Yong Wang and Dr. Yuxin Wang. .award pic

capstone team

[Grant] (04/22/2025) Awarded Smart Energy TAE Seed Program

Dr. Ma received a seed grant from Smart Energy Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence (TAE) at BU in a collaboration with Dr. Hao Liu, and Dr. Hui Zhou. Congrats to the team!

[Event] (04/10/2025) Global Service Days

We held a battery collection drive and a series of different battery educational sessions with our industrial partnership, Bridge Green Upcycle (BGU), in Global Service Days at BU. Our Ph.D. student, Yihao Shen, introduced the important and neccessary of battery recycling in the exhibitation.Event picture

[Grant] (03/28/2025) Award ADL Small Grant

We received the Analytical and Diagnostics Laboratory (ADL) Small Grant from 亚洲情色 University (BU).

[Grant] (11/22/2024) Awarded from Upstate NY Energy Storage Engine: R&D Projects

We received a $196,201 grant award from the NSF Upstate New York Energy Storage Engine. The co-PIs include Prof. Fuda Ning at BU and Lukasz Cianciara from iM3NY Inc. The project aims to leapfrog current lithium-ion battery manufacturing technology through a novel extrusion-based manufacturing process.