The related research areas include but are not limited to the following:

Ø  Solid-State Batteries: Solid-state electrolytes (including organic, inorganic, and composite solid electrolytes); design and fabrication of solid-state batteries (including all-solid-state and semi-solid-state batteries), etc.

Ø  High-Capacity Electrode Materials: Layered oxide electrodes (including lithium-ion and sodium-ion layered oxide electrodes); sulfur-based electrode materials (including lithium-sulfur and sodium-sulfur electrodes); anode materials (lithium/sodium metal anodes, silicon-based anodes), etc.

Ø  Organic Electrolytes for Extreme Conditions: Low-temperature high-ionic-conductivity electrolytes, high-temperature high-interface-stability electrolytes, etc.

Ø  Battery Interface Research: Design and characterization of interfacial ion transport and interfacial stability, etc.

Ø  Computational Simulation in Batteries: Structural and ion transport simulations of inorganic battery materials; structural properties and redox calculations of organic battery materials, etc.

Ø  Battery Material Characterization: X-ray diffraction, neutron scattering, transmission electron microscopy, and other in-situ/ex-situ characterization techniques for crystalline and amorphous materials, etc.