2022-05: Rubloff group members present at the MRS Spring Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii

Victoria gave a talk titled “Working thin film solid state batteries designed in a multilayered stack to enhance energy density”. This work has been published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A. (https://doi.org/10.1039/D2TA01021F)

Daniela gave a talk titled “Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of Sodium Phosphorous Oxynitride”. This work has been published in Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A. (https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0001752)

Haotian gave a talk titled “In-situ strain distributions in 3D solid state battery electrodes”. This work is under preparation for submission.

Dr. Nam Soo Kim, from Prof. Sang Bok Lee’s group, gave a talk titled “Tunable On-Wafer Porous Anodic Aluminum Substrates for Advanced Nanomaterials Design Templates for Nanomaterial Synthesis”. This work is under preparation for submission.

2020-09: $2.25M DOE-BES Project Awarded

“Thin Film Platforms to Advance Scientific Frontiers in Solid State Energy Storage” is a 3-year project approved from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Science (BES) through its materials chemistry program. The research will be conducted by Rubloff group and UMD faculty members. Prof. Rubloff is the principal investigator on the project. Paul Albertus (ChBE Asst Professor and MEI² Associate Director), Sang Bok Lee (Chem/Biochem Professor and NanoCenter Director) and A. Alec Talin (MSE Adjunct Professor and distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Lab) will serve as co-investigators.

2020-04: Congrats to Blake for publishing his first paper in the group!

Blake’s paper, “Atomic Layer Deposition of Sodium Phosphorus Oxynitride: a Conformal Solid-State Sodium-ion Conudctor” was published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.

2020-03: $18.4M U.S.-Israel Energy Center Project Awarded

The Rubloff group along with collaborating UMD faculty members have been selected to lead the U.S. side of a $18.4M, five-year program, awarded by the U.S.-Israel Energy Center, and managed by the Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, to conduct research, development, and commercialization of innovative energy technologies in the fossil energy, energy storage and energy-water nexus sectors. Collaborating UMD faculty members include  Paul Albertus  (ChBE Assistant Professor, MEI² Associate Director, and lead Principal Investigator) and co-PI’s  Eric Wachsman (MSE/ChBE Professor, MEI² Director), Sang Bok Lee (Chem/Biochem Associate Professor, UMD NanoCenter Director), and Gary Rubloff (MSE/ISR Professor).

2020-03: Congrats to Haotian for publishing his first paper in the group!

Haotian’s paper, “Li-Containing Organic Thin Film – Structure of Lithium Propane Dioxide via Molecular Layer Deposition” was published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

2019-12: Emily Hitz recognized as a leading early career researcher

Emily Hitz was named by Nature as one of five leading early career researchers in materials science

2019-10: Rubloff group members present at the AVS 66th International Symposium in Columbus, Ohio

Angelique presented an oral talk titled “Structural Rearrangement in Li_xV₂O₅ Thin Films_, a Cathode Material for All-solid-state Batteries”

Blake presented an oral talk titled “Atomic Layer Deposition and Performance of Sodium and Potassium Electrolytes for Conformal Solid State Batteries”

Haotian presented an oral talk titled “Molecular Layer Deposition of Organic Li-containing Thin Film for Li Ion Solid-state Batteries“