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Recent Media Coverage on Li-Solar Flow Battery
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
ALSO: Science Blog: New design brings world’s first solar battery to performance milestone
ALSO: R&D Magazine: New design brings world’s first solar battery to performance milestone
ALSO: Gizmodo IN: ‘Solar Flow’ Device To Outperform Traditional Batteries
ALSO: World Industrial Reporter: New Design Combines Solar Cell and Battery to Increase Efficiency
ALSO: Futurism.com: What is a ‘Water Battery’?
ALSO: Green Car Congress: OSU team develops new aqueous lithium-iodine solar flow battery; 20% energy savings over Li-I batteries
ALSO: Solar Daily: New design brings world’s first solar battery to performance milestone
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
ALSO: The Engineer: ‘Solar flow’ battery gains 20 per cent efficiency
ALSO: Business Standard: First aqueous solar flow battery designed
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.
Mingzhe’s paper has been highlighted by Nature Chemistry and Phys.org
New Solar Flow Battery Publication
Mingzhe’s paper on the lithium-iodine solar flow battery has been accepted by JACS(Highlighted by Nature Chemistry).
Other coauthors include Billy, Damian, Zhongjie and Xiaodi. This works enables the integration between photoelectrodes and flow batteries for solar-chargeable flow batteries.
PhD Candidate and Future Leaders in Chemistry Recipient
Ben passed his candidacy. Also, Damian has been selected to participate in the 2015 SciFinder® Future Leaders in Chemistry program (only 20 recipients around the world)! Congrats to them!
PhD Candidates
Billy and Damian have passed their candidacy exams.
New Delafossite Publication
Tom Draskovic’s paper on CuScO2 has been accepted by Inorganic Chemistry.
Xiaodi’s Presidential Fellowship
Xiaodi has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Graduate School. This is the highest honor for a graduate student at OSU. This is the 2nd awardee from the group within half a year.
New Battery and DSSC Publications
Xuanxuan’s paper on Na-O2 battery has been accepted by ChemComm. This is her first 1st-author paper in this group! Zhongjie and Mingfu’s paper on dye-controlled interfacial electron transfer on ITO nanoparticles has been accepted by Angewandte Chemie. This work provides a new way to think about dye-sensitized solar cells.
ACS National Meeting
Dr. Wu co-organized the “Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Conversion & Storage” symposium in 249th ACS national meeting, Denver, CO. Some of the former Peidong Yang group members had a reunion.