Ohio State is turning to Reddit to get geeks excited about Buckeye science

Columbus Business First

Aug 12, 2015

Ohio State University is among several schools turning to the social media platform Redditto get the public geeked about its scientific research.

An “Ask Me Anything” session is set for Monday with developers of a solar battery that has reached a performance milestone, but is still far from commercialization. It follows the success of an AMA this spring that drew 54,000 commenters.

World’s first “aqueous solar flow battery” outperforms traditional lithium-iodine batteries

Gizmag

August 3, 2015

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New design brings world’s first solar battery to performance milestone

Nanowerk

August 2, 2015

Featured experts: Yiying Wu, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and doctoral student Mingzhe Yu

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Energy Storage: Better together

Nature Chemistry

July 23, 2015

As society’s demand for energy gets ever larger, the development of technologies for both its efficient conversion and storage have become two of the most important goals for researchers today. … Now Yiying Wu and colleagues from Ohio State University have developed a device that integrates photoelectric conversion and energy storage.

Solar battery receives 20% of its energy from the sun

Phys.org

July 14, 2015

Ohio State Professor Yiying Wu and his research group have improved upon their solar battery design by developing a version that replaces the organic solvents with a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective iodine redox-based aqueous solution.

Two 1st-year graduate students join the group. Welcome, Yongze Yu and Neng Xiao!

The Wu lab moves to the brand- new CBEC Building. Bye, Evans lab!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRzqm23tflk

All four 3rd-year students have passed the candidacy exam. Congratulations to Mingfu, Tom D, Lu and Xiaodi!

Dr. Wu has been promoted to full Professor, effective on June 06, 2014.

Prof. A. V. Adhikari from Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), India visited the Wu group as a visiting scholar for collaboration on dye-sensitized solar cells.