Principal Investigator

Dr. Fudong Han

Associate Professor, Priti and Mukesh Chatter '82 Career Development Chair

Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Office: 2022 J. Erik Jonsson Engineering Center

Phone: (518) 276-2573

E-mail: hanf2@rpi.edu

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Education

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 2018

Advisor: Dr. Chunsheng Wang; Thesis: Revisiting the Electrochemical Stability Window of Solid Electrolytes for the

Development of Bulk-Type All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries

M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University, China, 2012

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University, China, 2009

Professional Experiences

08/2019 - present Priti and Mukesh Chatter '82 Career Development Chair, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
07/2025 - present Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
01/2026 - present Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
08/2019 - 06/2025 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
03/2019 - 08/2019 Guest Scientist, Materials for Energy and Sustainable Development Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
05/2018 - 08/2019 Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland College Park. Advisor: Dr. Chunsheng Wang

Research Interests

Eletrochemical energy storage (solid state batteries, lithium ion batteries, and sodium ion batteries)
Advanced materials (synthesis, processing, and characterizations)

Awards

James M. Tien '66 Early Career Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2026
ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Emerging Investigator, 2025
Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field by Clarivate, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Materials Research Society Nelson “Buck” Robinson Science and Technology Award for Renewable Energy, 2024
School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2024
ARPA-E IGNIITE Award, 2024
NSF CAREER Award, 2023
Electrochemical Society Electrodeposition Division Early Career Investigator Award, 2022
International Society for Solid State Ionics Young Scientist Award Finalist, 2022
Electrochemical Society Battery Division Student Research Award, 2018
Dean's Doctoral Research Award, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 2018
Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award, 2017
NASA Tech Brief Certificate, 2016
All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park, 2016
Harry K. Wells Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park, 2016
Future Faculty Fellow, University of Maryland, College Park, 2016
TA of the Year, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 2014

Editorial Board

Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105)
Electrochem (ISSN 0008-0008)

Selected Publications

R. Das, R. Deng, S. Seelman, K. Xu, A. Toporski, R. Xiao, R. Wu, F. Han, Benchmarking the Electronic Transport Properties of Lithium Thiophosphate Glasses and Glass-Ceramics Using Double-Blocking-Electrode Polarization, Solid State Ionics, 444, (2026), 117265.

R. Deng, R. Wu, F. Han, Critical Role of Mixing for Dry Processing Sodium Ion Cathodes, ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, 2026, 23, 021104. Featured in the "2025 Emerging Investigators in Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage" special issue.

R. Deng, R. Das, R. Wu, K. Xu, B. Shao, F. Han, Understanding Calendar Aging of Thiophosphate-Based Solid-State Batteries, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2025, 172, 100519. Received the Electrochemical Society Norman Hackerman Young Author Award.

B. Shao, R. Das, Y. Huang, R. Deng, S. Seelman, F. Han, Structural Evolution During Solution-Based Synthesis of Li7P3S11 Solid Electrolyte by Synchrotron X-ray Total Scattering, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023, 11, 17035. Featured in "Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigators" Themed Collection.

B. Shao, Y. Huang, F. Han, Electronic Conductivity of Lithium Solid Electrolytes, Advanced Energy Materials, 13, (2023), 2204098.

Y. Huang, B. Shao, Y. Wang, F. Han, Solid-State Silicon Anode with Extremely High Initial Coulombic Efficiency, Energy & Environmental Science, 16, (2023), 1569.

B. Shao, S. Tan, Y. Huang, L. Zhang, J. Shi, X.-Q. Yang, E. Hu, F. Han, Enabling Conversion-Type Iron Fluoride Cathode by Halide-Based Solid Electrolyte, Advanced Functional Materials, 32, (2022), 2206845.

Y. Huang, B. Shao, F. Han, Li Alloy Anodes for High-Rate and High-Areal-Capacity Solid-State Batteries, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10, (2022), 12350.

Y. Huang, B. Shao, F. Han, Interfacial Challenges in All-Solid-State Batteries, Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, (2022), 33, 100933.

F. Han, A. S. Westover, J. Yue, X. Fan, F. Wang, M. Chi, D. N. Leonard, N. J. Dudney, H. Wang, C. Wang, High Electronic Conductivity as the Origin of Lithium Dendrite Formation within Solid Electrolytes. Nature Energy, 4 (2019) 187.

F. Han, J. Yue, C. Chen, N. Zhao, X. Fan, Z. Ma, T. Gao, F. Wang, X. Guo, C. Wang, Interphase Engineering Enabled-All-Ceramic Lithium Battery. Joule, 2 (2018) 497.

F. Han, J. Yue, X. Zhu, C. Wang, Suppressing Li Dendrite Formation in Li2S-P2S5 Solid Electrolyte by LiI Incorporation. Advanced Energy Materials, 8 (2018) 1703644.

F. Han, Y. Zhu, X. He, Y. Mo, C. Wang, Electrochemical Stability of Li10GeP2S12 and Li7La3Zr2O12 Solid Electrolytes, Advanced Energy Materials, 6 (2016) 1501590.

F. Han, T. Gao, Y. Zhu, K. J. Gaskell, C. Wang, A Battery Made from a Single Material, Advanced Materials, 27 (2015) 3473.