Juner Zhu Group

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New paper "Rapid Simulation of Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Deformation of Li-ion Batteries Based On Porous Electrode Theory" is online in the Journal of Electrochemical Society. 05/28/2024
At the 245th ECS Meeting, Ruqing and Junning delivered an oral and two poster presentations on behalf of our group. 05/28/24
Royal won the best lightening talk award at NEW.Mech 2024! 05/24/24
Amin was selected to participate in the ARPA-E Student Summit! 05/22/24
New paper "Seeking the most informative design of test specimens for learning constitutive models" in EML is online. Congrats Royal for your first journal paper with the group! 05/21/24
Royal received a postdoc fellowship to participate in the Cell Symposium on EV 2024! 05/20/2024
Our new paper in Extreme Mech Letters, entitled "Microstructure-chemomechanics relations of polycrystalline cathodes in solid-state batteries", is online. 04/25/2024
Our group alumnus, Sophie Fallon, will continue her education through the Erasmus Mundus Master in Membrane Engineering program. Congrats, Sophie! 04/ 23/2024
Master student, Divya Priya Dhanraj joined us. She will work on a research project on batteries in low temperatures. 04/ 23/2024
Junning will start her summer internship at Tesla from May to the end of summer! 03/15/2024
Invited by Prof. Ruobing Bai, we contributed to the Journal Club of iMechanica for February 2024, on the topic of the mechanics of solid-state batteries. Here is the link. 02/01/2024
Saint-Gobain colleagues visited us and discussed battery research with our whole group. We are very grateful for their gift fund to support our research! 1/25/2024
We start our new year by welcoming new PhD student, Amin Kazem Ghamsari, to join our group to work on data-driven methods for electro-chemo-mechanics! 1/2/2024
Our group successfully organized the 2nd Battery Sustainability Workshop on the Innovation Campus of Northeastern Univ. in Burlington! 12/6/2023
Northeastern junior student, George Vassilakis, joined our group as an AJC Merit Research Fellow! 11/3/2023
Our undergraduate student Nitin won the Northeastern PEAK Experience Base Camp Award! 10/24/2023
Junning passed her Oral Qualifying Exam today after an impressive presentation and a professional Q&A session. Congrats on becoming a PhD candidate! 10/18/2023
Dr. Jihun Song, joined our group as a Postdoctoral Associate! 10/02/2023
Pre-registration of the 2nd Battery Sustainability Workshop is now open! Click here to pre-register. 09/22/2023
Sophie Fallon started her research project with us. 09/22/2023
NEU undergraduate students, Vishhal Shashi Kumar and Jiaqing Chen, joined our group for research training. 09/16/2023
Junning passed her written qualifying exam! 09/15/2023
Junlin completed his 2-month visit in our group! During his visit, Junlin developed a method of using the concept of "joint entropy" to quantify the amount of information conveyed in a mechanical test. 9/15/2023
Dr. Ruqing Fang joined the group as a Postdoctoral Associate! 09/01/2023
Visiting Scholar, YongHwan Choi, is visiting our group from Hyundai Motor Company. 08/22/2023
Our paper on Phase-field DeepONet is published and online! This is Wei's second first-author paper in the prestigious journal CMAME. Congrats, Wei! 8/10/2023
We established a collabrative research with Electra Vehicles on EV batteries. 08/10/2023
Dr. Royal Ihuaenyi joined the group as a Postdoctoral Associate! 08/01/2023
Junlin Luo, a visiting student from the Tsien Excellence in Engineering Program at Tsinghua Univeristy, joined our group for a two-month research project on inverse learning constitutive models. 07/24/2023
We welcome Northeastern undergraduate students Lucas Tang, Joseph Griffin, Xinyu (Jimmy) Yang, Blair Seo, Ashnu Cassod, and Tyler Smiththro to join our group for research training in battery sustainability! 06/06/2023
Undergraduate student Nitin Vallabhu joined us to see opportunities in battery sustainability! 05/05/23
Sophie Fallon joined us as an undergraduate trainee. 04/18/2023
Dhiren Rathod joined our group to work on his MS research project to develop a multi-signal experimental platform for battery health & safety monitoring. 03/29/2023
Zonghui Li, a Master's student in Energy Systems, joined our group to work on the standardization of battery safety tests. 11/16/2022
Our group held the first Battery Sustainability Workshop on the Boston campus of Northeastern! 11/02-03/2022
Dr. Zhu is awarded the Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant by ASME Applied Mechanics Division. 10/11/2022
Paul Van Trotsenburg joined our group to work on the techno-economy of direct recycling! 10/03/2022
Dr. Wei Li will join Northeastern as an Associate Research Scientist, starting 01/01/2023!
Junning Jiao joined the group! She will be our first PhD student. 09/02/2022
Juner officially joined Northeastern University today! 08/22/2022
Our joint paper with ORNL on the three-point bending of battery cells is published in EcoMat. Thank you, Wei, for your hard work. 07/03/2022
Visiting M.S. student from RWTH Aachen, Gerrit Ipers, joined the group to work on his thesis at MIT! 06/15/2022
Juner will join the faculty of MIE at Northeastern University as an Assistant Professor this fall. 05/13/2022

Highlights in Media

Juner Zhu battery ‘doctor’ believes electric vehicle revolution sustainableHalf of Americans would prefer to own a greener car — whether it’s a standard hybrid, a plug-in hybrid or a fully electric vehicle

Center for Battery Sustainability and the 2nd Workshop - Northeastern University College of EngineeringFaculty, researchers, students, and industry leaders gathered at the 2nd Battery Sustainability Workshop to discuss sustainability, recycling and more. MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu, along with MIT professors Martin Z. Bazant and Richard D. Braatz, founded the Center for Battery Sustainability, after participating in last year’s event. MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu, along with […]

Successful Workshop on Battery Sustainability - Northeastern University College of EngineeringOn November 2-3, MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu and his team organized the first Battery Sustainability Workshop on the Boston campus of Northeastern University. It was a two-day event jointly hosted by two MIT ChemE professors Martin Z. Bazant and Richard D. Braatz. The workshop triggered wide interest in EV, battery, renewable energy, consumer electronics, …

2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations - Northeastern University College of EngineeringThe following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes those […]

Bai and Zhu Awarded Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grants - Northeastern University College of EngineeringMIE Assistant Professors Ruobing Bai and Juner Zhu were awarded the 2022 Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant from the Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME. The intent of the grant, which supports research in the field of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, is to assist with the purchase of equipment or instrumentation, fabrication of a unique …