Principal Investigator

Dr. Fudong Han

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

Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering

Office: 2022 J. Erik Jonsson Engineering Center

Phone: (518) 276-2573

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

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

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

08/2019 - present Priti and Mukesh Chatter '82 Career Development Chair, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
08/2019 - present 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

NSF CAREER Award, 2023
Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field by Clarivate, 2022
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, 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, 2014

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, DOI: 10.1039/D3TA02326E. 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, 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.