Welcome to our Solid State Ionics Group led by Assoc. Prof. Stefan Adams in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore. In our group, we employ both experimental and computational approaches to search for new materials for sustainable energy applications. Our current focus is mainly Li and Na batteries. You can find out more about our research focus here.

Highlights:

24 July 2025	Kaiming's manuscript "Dynamic interface regulation in solid-state lithium-metal batteries by in situ polymerized highly elastic ultrathin layers" has now been published in Energy Storage Materials.
18 July 2025	Our research group is looking for a Research Assistant to support the NMR Characterisation of solid electrolytes in the frame of our ongoing 5-year project on composite thin film solid state batteries. For details of the requirments and submitting your application please follow this link
10 July 2025	Thank you very much to all the eminent battery scientists and friends who came to Singapore earlier this month to enrich our ICMAT 2025 battery symposium by their plenary, keynote and invited contributions. I hope to see many of you back in Singapore next July for the Solid State Ionics" conference.
19 February 2025	Three days left to submit your abstract to ICMAT 2025 Symposium Advanced Batteries to Power a Sustainable Future and join ICMAT 2025 in Singapore from 30 June - 4 July 2025. Abstract deadline has been extended to 21 February. Submit your abstract by 14 Feb. to: https://icmat2025.mrs.org.sg/call-for-abstracts/
12 February 2025	Today PI Stefan Adams remotely presented a Keynote talk at the Int. Conference on Renewable & Sustainable Energy Sources (RSES 2025) Pilani/India.
3 February 2025	Welcome to our new group member Jivitesh Jain, who just joined as research assistant in our CRP project
January 2025	This month PI Stefan Adams has presented Invited talks at iSAEST-13 conference Kovalam/India and at the 49th ICACC conference in Daytona Beach/USA.
9 July 2024	Our review "Oriented structures for high safety, rate capability and energy density lithium metal batteries" has now been published in Advanced Science.
22 May 2024	PI Stefan Adams has presented an Invited Keynote talk at the 12th Asian Conf. for Electrochemical Power Systems ACEPS-12 in Osaka/Japan".
22 April 2024	Our collaborative Editorial "Sustainable Materials and Decarbonization Prospects in Battery Technologies" has now been published in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
03 April 2024	Our manuscript "Origin of Fast Li+-Ion Conductivity in the Compressible Oxyhalide LiNbOCl4" has now been published in Energy Storage Materials.
27 March 2024	PI Stefan Adams has been elected as VP of The Materials Research Society of Singapore (MRS-S) for 2024-2026.".
15 March 2024	The Singapore National Research Foundation granted 8.3 MS$ to a NUS team led by PI Stefan Adams for their 5-year project on "Long-life Solid-State Batteries by Intelligent Composites with Active Interfaces".
19 February 2024	Kaiming's manuscript on stabilizing NMC811 by ALN "Stabilizing LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 Cathode by Combined Moisture and HF Digestion/Adsorption for High-performance Lithium Metal Batteries" is accepted by Energy Storage Materials.
19 January 2024	Our group's first manuscript on the "Origin of Fast Li+-Ion Conductivity in the Compressible Oxyhalide LiNbOCl4" is now available as preprint.
8 January 2024	Welcome to our new PhD student Wu Haowen.
28 November 2023	Congratulations to Aniruddh Ramesh for passing his oral defense and joining the group now as a Research Fellow
18 October 2023	Aaron's collaborative paper " "Zirconia-free NaSICON Solid Electrolyte Materials for Sodium All-solid-state Batteries" has been published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
6 September 2023	PI Adams gave an invited talk "Solid state batteries with ultrathin composite electrolytes" at The 4th World Conference on Solid Electrolytes for Advanced Applications: Garnets and Competitors in Tromsoe/Norway .
14 June 2023	Linchun's paper " In situ curing enables high performance all-solid-state lithium metal batteries based on ultrathin-layer solid electrolytes " has just been published in Energy Storage Materials.
9 June 2023	Welcome to our new Senior Research Fellow Dr. Nahong Zhao who officially joined today.
2 June 2023	Our collaborative paper " An integrated study on the ionic migration across the nano lithium lanthanum titanate (LLTO) and lithium iron phosphate-carbon (LFP-C) interface in all-solid-state Li-ion batteries " with the group of Zdenek Sofer (UCT Prague) is now published in Journal of Power Sources.
10 March 2023	In a new research project on composite thin film solid state batteries there are two open positions in our group 1 Senior Research Fellow, and 1 Research Fellow For inquiries on these positions please contact PI Stefan Adams by e-mail (mseasn@nus.edu.sg).
10 March 2023	Our collaborative paper with the group of Tan SC " Strong, Compressible, and Ultrafast Self-Recovery Organogel with In Situ Electrical Conductivity Improvement " is now published in Advanced Functional Materials.
9 March 2023	Our multinational collaborative paper " An integrated study on the ionic migration across the nano lithium lanthanum titanate (LLTO) and lithium iron phosphate-carbon (LFP-C) interface in all-solid-state Li-ion batteries is now published in J. Power Sources.
23 Feruary 2023	PI Adams has become member of the Editorial Board of the journal Batteries
15 December 2022	We were delighted to have Professor Joachim Maier, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany, for a seminar today. Professor Maier was co-hosted by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Stefan Adams) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Palani Balaya).
17 November 2022	Our paper "Temperature dependence of structure and ionic conductivity of LiTa2PO8 ceramics." arising largely from Ruoyu's thesis project has been accepted for publication in Chemistry of Materials.
15 November 2022	Farewell and congratulations to Dr. HE Linchun, who leaves our group today to take up an Assistant Professor position in the International Center for Applied Mechanics of Prof. Zishun Liu at Xi’an Jiaotong University.
22 October 2022	Today, Prof. Dr. Karl Fischer passed away at the age of 97. With him, crystallography loses a scientist of outstanding importance and an impressive personality that with his enthusiasm shaped the careers of numerous scientists including PI Adams, who did his PhD in Fischer's institute in Saarbrücken. Prof. Fischer was both an honorary member of the German Society for Crystallography and recipient of the Carl Hermann Medal for his scientific life's achievements. A detailed obituary (in German), can be found on https://dgk-home.de/in-memoriam-karl-fischer-1925-2022/
10 October 2022	Our collaborative paper "Room-Temperature Solid-State Transformation of Na4SnS4·14H2O into Na4Sn2S6·5H2O: an Unusual Epitaxial Reaction Including Bond Formation, Mass Transport, and Ionic Conductivity." with a team led by Wolfgang Bensch (U Kiel/Germany) has been accepted for publication in Chemistry - A European Journal.
21 September 2022	Congratulations to our friends from the group of Jose Rajan. Our collaborative 2020 paper "Void Space Control in Porous Carbon for High-Density Supercapacitive Charge Storage" paper got an award as one of the top 3% cited papers in Energy and Fuels.
19 -21 September 2022	During the "Batteries for the Future"-Symposium of the Materials for Humanity 2022 hybrid conference (coorganized at NUS UTown by P. Canepa, Shou-hang Bo and PI Adams), our group gave presentations on LTPO-type ceramics, as well as polymer-ceramic composite Li and Zn conductors. Congratulations to Vishakha Kapoor for winning a best poster award for her previous work.
14 September 2022	During the ACSSI conference it was decided that the Executive Board of the Asian Society for Solid State Ionics remains essentially unchanged for the coming two years until the 2024 ACSSI conference (which will be organized in Chennai). Hence, PI Adams will continue to serve as Secretary of the Society.
12 - 15 September 2022	PI Adams and Dr. Linchun He gave three (virtual) talks at the hybrid 17th Asian Conference on Solid State Ionics in Nagoya(Japan).
18 July 2022	The paper " Topological control of room temperature conductivity in garnet type solid electrolytes. " arising from a presentation at the 3rd World Conference on Solid Electrolytes for Advanced Applications has been published in Ionics.
21 June 2022	We are looking for a highly talented and motivated PhD candidate to advance the development of safer high energy density solid state batteries with high capacity, high rate capability and long cycle life. The project will involve the nanotechnological syntheses, electrochemical, XRD and solid-state NMR characterization as well as interfacial engineering using Atomic Layer Deposition. The project in the frame of an Industry Collaboration project with a local company starts in January 2023. The position is fully funded with a 4-year PhD scholarship and tuition fee waiver. The candidate will join our Solid State Ionics Lab supervised by Assoc. Prof. Stefan Adams along with the industrial co-supervisor by Dr. Puneet Gupta. Over the four years project the student is supposed to spend four months working on the project within the company. Candidate profile: • Master or Bachelor (Hons) Degree in Materials Science or related disciplines • Ability to work independently and cooperate effectively in intercultural teams • Excellent writing and presentation skills • Prior knowledge in electrochemical characterization of battery materials is helpful International Candidates have to apply via the NUS College of Design and Engineering’s Central Graduate Admission System /a> before 01 Jul 2022. Please do not hesitate to contact A/P Adams (mseasn@nus.edu.sg) if you have questions about the application.
16 June 2022	The collaborative paper with Prof. Ding's group on "Incorporating Metal Precursors towards a Library of High-resolution Metal Parts by Stereolithography." has been accepted for publication in Applied Materials Today.
17 December 2021	Congratulations to ZHANG Xin for passing his Oral Defense on the Thesis "Sulphide electrolytes for all-solid-state sodium and lithium batteries" today.
29 November 2021	Congratulations to DAI Ruoyu for passing his Oral Defense on the Thesis "Computational Screening of Inorganic Solid-State Electrolytes for Lithium batteries".
23 November 2021	Zhang Xin's paper "Anion Control of the Electrolyte Na3-xSbS4-xBrx Extends Cycle Life in Solid-State Sodium Batteries" has been accepted for publication in Chemistry of Materials.
16 November 2021	A new beta version of softBV-GUI 1.3 with various various bug fixes and added functions (including an absolute conductivity predictor and a bulk pathway analyzer option) is now available for download on our software webpage.
29 September 2021	A review paper "Cause and Mitigation of Lithium-Ion Battery Failure" arising from a cooperation of our group with VIT and two Canadian company research centers coordinated by our earlier group member Dr. Reddy has just been published.
27 August 2021	Linchun He's paper "Electromechanical Failure of NASICON-type Solid-state Electrolyte based All-solid-state Li-ion Batteries" arising from a cooperation between MSE & ME at NUS as well as Kogakuin University has been published in Chemistry of Materials.
22 July 2021	The paper "Computational search for novel Zn-ion conductors – a crystallochemical, bond valence, and density functional study" arising from our collaboration with research groups in Samara & Novosibirsk / Russia as well as Freiberg / Germany has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
9 July 2021	Yuhan's paper " Accelerated Design of Battery Materials Interfaces by Embedded-Atom-Inspired Bond-Valence Sum Forcefields " has been accepted for the 60th Anniversary Special Issue of physica status solidi a.
7 July 2021	Linchun He's paper "" Understanding and Preventing Dendrite Growth in Lithium Metal Batteries"" has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
20 April 2021	The collaborative paper Mechanochemical Synthesis and Structure of Lithium Tetrahaloaluminates, LiAlX4 (X = Cl, Br, I): A Family of Li-Ion Conducting Ternary Halides arising from a cooperation with U Glasgow, U Giessen, NUS and U Muenster is now published in ACS Materials Letters.
5 April 2021	The paper Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Amorphous NaFePO4 as a Na-ion Battery Cathode Material arising from BONG Jia Hui's undergraduate research opportunity project is now published in Functional Materials Letters.
8 February 2021	What a sad day for E-mobility, when a presumed leading EV producer officially declares that their business model now is based on money laundry and tax fraud-prone cryptocurrencies.
30 January 2021	In a subject-wise ranking published recently by Stanford's METRICS institute, both PI Stefan Adams and SRF Dr. MV Reddy have been listed among the top 2% most influential scientific authors in the field of "Energy".
15 January 2021	Our collaborative paper on A Transfer Learning-based State of Charge Estimation for Lithium-Ion Battery at Varying Ambient Temperatures with Yuen Chau's group fom SUTD is published in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. Our collaborative paper A highly efficient and informative method to identify ion transport networks in fast ion conductors. is published in Acta Materialia, 2021, 203, 116490.
8 January 2021	Our softBV-GUI / BVPA paper Bond Valence Pathway Analyzer—An Automatic Rapid Screening Tool for Fast Ion Conductors within softBV is published in Chemistry of Materials, 2021, 33, 625 - 641.
8 December 2020	Dorsa's paper Round-Trip Efficiency Enhancement of Hybrid Li-Air Battery Enables Efficient Power Generation from Low-Grade Waste Heat. is published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
14 August 2020	Hyundai Motor Company announced its plans to produce electric vehicles for its Ioniq brand at a new plant in Jurong slated to be up and running by 2022, bringing Singapore back onto the map of EV producers after earlier plans by Dyson were given up.
23 July 2020	As the ICSD database as a main source of cif crystal structure files moved to an updated version of the cif file format, a new version of softBV-GUI has been made available that should be able to handle both the old and new cif file formats. As before it can be downloaded from the software section.
15 July 2020	Yang GUANG's paper Enhanced Li1+xAlxGe2–x(PO4)3 Anode-Protecting Membranes for Hybrid Lithium–Air Batteries by Spark Plasma Sintering has been published in ACS Omega 2020 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c01826 .
25 June 2020	The second paper arising from our China-Australia-Singapore collaboration appeared in Advanced Functional Materials 2020 Liwen Zhang et al.; A Database of Ionic Transport Characteristics for Over 29 000 Inorganic Compounds .
15 June 2020	Welcome to Dr. HE Linchun who joined the group as a research Fellow after the end of the circuit breaker shutdown and to Aaron Tieu Jue Kang who joined a joint project between Dr. Canepa's group and our group as Research Engineer.
21 May 2020	A collaborative paper introducing the SPSE "High-throughput screening platform for solid electrolytes combining hierarchical ion-transport prediction algorithms" has been published in the Nature group journal Scientific Data He, B., Chi, S., Ye, A. et al. Sci. Data 7 (2020) 151. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0474-y . by a multidisciplinary team comprising research groups from Shanghai University (Computer Eng., Mater. Sci. & Eng., Materials Genome Institute), Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen (Physics & Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Technology), Guilin University of Electronic Technology (Mater. Sci. & Eng.), our group at NUS, ANSTO and U Sydney (Chemistry).
16 May 2020	Congratulations to Hu Xun (l.h.s.) from NJC. His JC student project "Atomic layer deposited, mixed ceramic-photopolymer composites for solid state electrolytes" with us, which was mentored by Kia Chai Phuah (r.h.s.), has won a Silver Award in the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair 2020.
1 May 2020	Congratulations to Haomin. His paper SoftBV – a software tool for screening the materials genome of inorganic fast ion conductors. Acta Crystallogr. B 75 (2019) 18-33. . has been recognized as one of the top downloaded papers in Acta Crystallographica B in 2018 or 2019.
20 April 2020	The paper "First-principles study of superionic Na9+xSnxM3−xS12 (M = P, Sb)" by Anastassia Sorkin and Stefan Adams is now published in the new RSC journal Materials Advances 1 (2020), 184 - 196 . Update on 26 May 2020: The content is highlighted on an inside cover page of the journal issue.
15 Oct 2019	The paper "Stable lithium ion conducting thiophosphate solid electrolytes Lix(PS4)yXz (X = Cl, Br, I)" by R. Prasada Rao, H. Chen and S. Adams has been accepted for publication in Chem. Mater.
9 Oct 2019	A Nobel Prize for battery research! Congratulations to Stan Whittingham, John Goodenough and Akira Yoshino.
19 Aug 2019	The paper "Mechanochemical synthesis of fast sodium ion conductor Na11Sn2PSe12 enables first sodium-selenium all-solid-state battery" by R. Prasada Rao, Zhang X., Phuah K.C. and S. Adams has been accepted for publication in J. Mater Chem. A.
31 July 2019	Congratulations to Zhang Xin and Dai Ruoyu for passing their Oral Qualifying Exams.
9 July 2019	A new test version of our bond valence site energy software tool softBV 1.1 , now with as simple graphic user interface, has been made available free of charge for ademic use on the Software page.
13 May 2019	Congratulations to Jing Zhou et al. for publishing the collaborative paper "Large spin-orbit torque efficiency enhanced by magnetic structure of collinear antiferromagnet IrMn" that just appeared in Science Advances 5, eaau6696 (2019).
23 Apr 2019	Congratulatons to Phuah Kia Chai for passing his Oral defense with his project "Solid-state Protected Lithium Anodes".
12 Apr 2019	The dinner tonight with current and past group members also served as a farewell dinner to Dr. Reddy (upper r.h.s.) who will leave Singapore in a few weeks to pursue a career in industrial battery research.
1 February 2019	The Paper H.Chen, L.L. Wong & S. Adams, SoftBV - a software tool for screening the materials genome of inorganic fast ion conductors Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials; 2019, B75 18-33 is just published and highlighted on the cover of the February 2019 issue of Acta Crystallographica B .
21 Dec 2018	The command-line version of the SoftBV software for BVSE pathway calculations has been uploaded in the Software section.
15 Oct 2018	Welcome to our new group member Dr. Yang Guang (Peter)
24 May 2018	Several manuscripts have recently been accepted: The paper "The Superion Conductor Na11.1Sn2.1P0.9Se12: Lowering the Activation Barrier of Na+ Conduction in Quaternary 1-4-5-6 Electrolytes" arising from a colaboration with several German groups led by Prof. Steffie Dehnen will appear in Chemistry of Materials. Dr. Rao's paper "Performance enhancement of Lithium-polysulphide batteries by Atomic Layer Deposition of Lithium Tantalate on Sulphide Solid Electrolytes"will appear in Solid State Ionics
7 May 2018	Congratulations to Lee Loong Wong for passing his Oral Defense.
24 April 2018	After 12 years of successfull research helping to shape our research group's profile, Dr. Rayavapu Prasada Rao leaves back to India to become Programme Coordinator at the Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (CMET) in Pune.
8 March 2018	Several collaborative manuscripts have recently been accepted or published including "Impact of electrical conductivity on the electrochemical performances of layered structure lithium trivanadate (LiV3-xMxO8, M= Zn/Co/Fe/Sn/Ti/Zr/Nb/Mo, x= 0.01-0.1) as a cathode materials for Energy storage" by P S. Kumar, S. Ayyasamy, E.S. Tok, S.Adams, M. Reddy in ACS Omega; "Electrochemical and diffusional insights of combustion synthesized SrLi2Ti6O14 negative insertion material for Li-ion Batteries" by A. Dayamani, G. S. Shinde, A. Chaupatnaik, R. Prasada Rao, S. Adams, P. Barpanda in J. Power Sources. "Determining Li+-Coupled Redox Targeting Reaction Kinetics of Battery Materials with Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy" by R.Yang et al. in J.Phys. Chem.Lett..
2 Feb. 2018	Two papers arising from undergraduate projects in our group have been published. MV Reddy, CY Quan, S Adams and Mg, Cu, Zn doped Fe2O3 as an electrode material for Li-ion batteries Materials Letters 212, 186-192. MV Reddy, TYA Chan, S Adams; Effect of molten salt synthesis temperature on TiO2 and Li cycling properties, Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry 22 (2), 429-439
22 Dec. 2017	Congratulations to Meilin Li for passing her Oral Defense.
22 Dec. 2017	The paper Evaluation of magnesium ion migration in inorganic oxides by the bond valence site energy method arising from a collaboration with Panasonic Adv. Research Division appeared in Solid State Ionics.
20 Dec. 2017	The paper Marc Duchardt, Uwe Ruschewitz, Stefan Adams, Stefanie Dehnen and Bernhard Roling, Vacancy-Controlled Na+ Superion Conduction in Na11Sn2PS12 reporting the new record holder in room temperature Na+ ionic conductivity has been accepted by Angewandte Chemie.
6 Nov. 2017	Congratulations to Haomin Chen for passing his Oral Defense.
1-5 Oct. 2017	PI Adams gave an invited talk at the ECS coference in National Harbor.
26 Sep. 2017	The paper L. Sharma et al. Electrochemical and Diffusional Investigation of Na2FeIIPO4F Fluorophosphate Sodium Insertion Material Obtained from FeIII Precursor arising from a collaboration with the groups of P. Barpanda (IISc) and D. Aurbach (Bar-Ilan U) appears in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
6 -9 Sep 2017	Three group members (PI Adams, Dr. Reddy and Dr. Rao) gave invited talks at the 1st World Conference on Solid Electrolytes for Advanced Applications, Pondicherry/ India.
2 Aug. 2017	PI Adams joins the Editorial Board of Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials. as Co-Editor. Welcome to two new group members, Dai Ruoyu and Zhang Xin, who join as PhD students.
31 July 2017	Earlier this month both Haomin Chen and Li Meilin submitted their thesis and started to work in the local industry.
12 July 2017	In the commencement ceremony we say goodbye to the class of 2017 and that PhD students who finish in the past year, incl. our group member Yow Zhen Feng.
10 July 2017	Haomin Chen's paper "Bond softness sensitive bond-valence parameters for crystal structure plausibility tests" reporting an updated list of >700 softBV parameters (and an in depth analysis of the different possible conventions in their determination and use) is accepted for publication open access in IUCrJ.
18-23 June 2017	PI Adams and most of the group members were at the ICMAT 2017 conference here in Singapore. where we organised Symposium D "Advanced Batteries for Sustainable Technologies" along with our colleagues Venkataraman Thangadurai (U. Calgary / Canada), Qing WANG (NUS), Haoshen ZHOU(AIST, Japan):                             At the same time Dr. R. Prasada Rao represented the group at SSI2017 in Padoa/Italy and LIBD Arcachon/France.
16-17 June 2017	PI Adams co-organised and contributed to the 1st joint workshop of the Materials Science and Engineering Departments of NUS and Seoul National University.
12-14 June 2017	PI Adams gave an invited talk at the 3rd International Freiberg Conference on Electrochemical Storage Materials.
4-7 June 2017	Dr. Dorsa Safanama presented her work inour Li-air battery project at the Metal Air battery Int. Conf. MaBIC in Huesca/Spain.
28 May -1 June 2017	PI Adams gave invited talks at the 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Toronto and at the University of Calgary.
21 -26 May 2017	PI Adams gave an invited talk at the 12th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology in Waikoloa/Hawaii.
22 Apr. 2017	The paper D. Safanama & S. Adams, "Flexible Light-Weight Lithium-Ion-Conducting InorganicOrganic Composite Electrolyte Membrane " has been accepted for publication in "ACS Energy Letters"
7 Mar. 2017	The paper "Continuous nanobelts of nickel oxide-cobalt oxide hybrid with improved capacitive charge storage properties" arising from a co-operation with J. Rajan's group (U. Malaysia Pahang) has been accepted for publication in "Materials & Design" and the paper "Thermochemical CO2 Splitting Using Double Perovskite-Type >Ba2Ca0.66Nb1.34-xFexO6-d" arising from a co-operation with V. Thangadurai's group (U Calgary) has been accepted or publication in J. Mater. Chem. A.
24 Feb. 2017	The paper L.L. Wong, H. Chen, S. Adams, "Design of fast ion conducting cathode materials for grid-scale sodium-ion batteries" has been accepted for publication in PCCP.
23 Jan. 2017	PI Adams appeared in a live interview in Channel News Asia to share his expert opinion on Samsung's investigation results about their recent battery failures.
20 Jan. 2017	The paper S. Petnikota et al., "Experimental Elucidation of Graphenothermal Reduction Mechanism of Fe2O3: An Enhanced Anodic Behavior of Exfoliated Reduced Graphene Oxide/Fe3O4 Composite in Li-Ion Batteries" arising from a collaboration with U. Hyderabad,NUS and NTU involving mainly Dr. Reddy has been accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C.
10 Jan. 2017	Dr. Rao's paper "Na3+xMxP1-xS4 (M = Ge4+, Ti4+, Sn4+) Enables High Rate All-Solid-State Na-ion Batteries Na2+2dFe2-d(SO4)3|Na3+xMxP1-xS4|Na2Ti3O7." is accepted for publication in J. Mater. Chem. A.
24-31 Dec. 2016	On Christmas and New Year Eve PI Adams was featured in several German radio stations, not for scientific achievements but for his activities in a multicultural brass band.
11-14 Dec. 2016	Wong Lee Loong and PI Adams gave presentationas at the Singapore International Chemistry Conference SICC9.
5-7 Dec. 2016	Several group members contributed to the MRS-S Trilateral Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials - Energy, Water & Healthcare here in Singapore. PI Adams gave an invited talk. Among the 4 posters presented by our group the contribution "Flexible Lightweight Inorganic - Organic Composite Membrane for Li-air Batteries" by Dorsasadat Safanama, Lim Hong Kit & Stefan Adams won one of the 3 best poster awards.
5 Dec. 2016	PI Adams gave an invited talk at the Asian Crystallographic Association Conference in Hanoi.
2 Dec. 2016	Congratulations to Yow Zhen Feng for passing his oral defense today.
27 -30 Nov. 2016	At the Asian Conference on Solid State Ionics in Patna/India our group is representd by 1 keynote talk (S. Adams), 2 invited talks (Dr. Reddy, Dr. Rao), 1 oral contribution and 3 posters. During the meeting A/P Adams has also been re-elected as Secretary of the Asian Society for Solid State Ionics for 2016-2018.
21 Nov. 2016	The paper "Proton Enhanced Dynamic Battery Chemistry for Aprotic Li-O2 Batteries" arising from a collaboration between Wang Qing's and our group at MSE, Argonne National Lab Advanced Photon Source, Univ. of Western Australia, Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering collaboration is accepted for Publication in Nature Communications.Congratulations to the fist author Yun Guang Zhu from Wang Qing's group.
21 Nov. 2016	The paper "Synthesis and application of nanostructured MCo2O4(M=Co, Ni) for hybrid Li-air batteries" based on Audreay Tan's final year project (mentored by Dr. Reddy) is accepted for publication in Ionics.
19 Nov. 2016	Dorsa Safanama's manuscript "High Efficiency Aqueous and Hybrid Lithium-air Batteries enabled by Li1.5Al0.5Ge1.5(PO4)3 Ceramic Anode-protecting Membranes" has been accepted in J. Power Sources.
17 Nov. 2016	Congratulations to Kia Chai for passing his Oral QE.
27-29 July 2016	Several of our group members gave invited talks at the International Conference On Sustainable Energy Technologies for Smart and Clean Cities (SETS & CC) in Tirupati/India.
5 June 2016	Yow's paper "Effect of Li+/H+ exchange in water treated Ta-doped Li7La3Zr2O12" has been published in Solid State Ionics. Dr. Reddy co-authored a paper "Co2Mo3O8/reduced graphene oxide composite: synthesis, characterization, and its role as a prospective anode material in lithium ion batteries"
5 May 2016	Dr. Reddy's paper "Effect of Initial Reactants and Reaction Temperature on Molten Salt Synthesis of CuCo2O4 and its Sustainable Energy Storage Properties" has been accepted for publication in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
4 May 2016	Congratulations to Gu Wenyi for passing her Oral Defense.
19 Apr. 2016	PI Adams gave an invited presentation at the American Ceramic Society "Materials Challenges in Alternative & Renewable Energy 2016" conference in Clearwater/Florida
8 Apr. 2016	Dorsa's paper "Structural evolution of NASICON-type Li1+xAlxGe2-x(PO4)3 using in situ synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction" involving a collaboration with UNSW and the Australian Synchrotron has been accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A. The paper "Exfoliated Graphene Oxide/MoO2 Composites as Anode Materials in Li Ion Batteries: An Insight into Intercalation of Li and Conversion Mechanism of MoO2" arising from a collaboration with between U Hyderabad, NUS and involving als a team of students from NUS High School (mentored by Dr. Reddy) has been accepted in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
7 Apr. 2016	Congratulations to Dorsa Safanama for passing her Oral Defense.
19 Mar. 2016	The paper "Probing Surface Valence, Magnetic Property, and Oxide Ion Diffusion Pathways in B-Site Ordered Perovskite-type Ba2Ca0.67M0.33NbO6-d (M = Mn, Fe, Co)" arising from the collaboration with the group of Prof. Thangadurai at U Calgary has been accepted for publcication in Solid State Ionics.
24 Feb. 2016	Dr. Rao's paper "Membranes for Rechargeable Lithium Sulphur Semi-flow Batteries" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Science.