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The Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA) (DE-AC02-06CH11357) is an Energy Innovation Hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences. ESRA supported research includes the following publications (listed in reverse chronological order).

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  1. Alae Eddine Lakraychi, Zeqian Zhang, Oliver Lin, Eric D Walter, Jiaqi Wang, Harshan Reddy Gopidi, Eliot F. Woods, Ruozhu Feng, Wei Wang, Pieremanuele Canepa, Brett A. Helms, Kamila M. Wiaderek, Qian Chen, Yan Yao, Ying Chen. 2026. “Hydrogen-Bonding Order Associated With Radical Delocalization in Layered Organic Cathode Materials” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e2483808, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.2483808
  2. Aaron M. Melemed, Sungil Hong, Jonathan R. Thurston, Alexis Luglio, Ethan B. Rose, Thomas S. Marchese, Jianwei Lai, Ethan J. Crumlin, Ying Shirley Meng, Nirala Singh, Rajeev S. Assary, and Neil P. Dasgupta. 2026. “Tuning Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formation before Plating Onset in Anode-Free Sodium Batteries”
    JACS Au, DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.6c00193 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacsau.6c00193
  3. Sungil Hong, Alae Eddine Lakraychi, Artur Lyssenko, Abhishek Ashwin Panchal, Harshan Reddy Gopidi, Pieremanuele Canepa, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Yan Yao, Rajeev Surendran Assary. 2026. “Molecular Design Strategies for High-Voltage Organic Cathodes” Advanced Energy Materials, e71122. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.71122
  4. Shuang Bai, Zhao Liu, Diyi Cheng, Bingyu Lu, Nestor J. Zaluzec, Ganesh Raghavendran, Shen Wang, Thomas S. Marchese, Brandon van Leer, Letian Li, Lin Jiang, Adam Stokes, Joseph P. Cline, Rachel Osmundsen, Minda Chen, Paul Barends, Alexander Bright, Minghao Zhang, and Ying Shirley Meng. 2026. “Guidelines for correlative imaging and analysis of reactive alkali metal battery materials” Joule, Volume 10, Issue 4, 102311, ISSN 2542-4351, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.102311.
  5. Sauradeep Majumdar, Swagata Roy, KyuJung Jun, Miguel Steiner, and Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli. 2026. “The Free Energy Landscape of Li- and Na-Ion Transport in Nanoconfinement with Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials” Chemistry of Materials, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c02940
  6. Eliot F. Woods, Litao Yan, Jiyoung Lee, Jong-Hwa Shon, Jie Xiao, Wei Wang, and Ruozhu Feng. 2026. “Molecular Design and Redox Behavior of Polyoxometalates: Structure–Property Insights for Flow Battery Materials” ACS Electrochemistry20262 (5), 1038-1054, DOI: 10.1021/acselectrochem.5c00379 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acselectrochem.5c00379
  7. Litao Yan, Ruozhu Feng, Ying Chen, Peiyuan Gao, Jong-Hwa Shon, Yaobin Xu, Xin Zhang, Guosheng Li, Abdelilah Asserghine, Yuyan Shao, Wei Wang. 2026. “Locally diluted electrolytes enable high-areal-capacity aqueous Zn–I2 gel batteries for long-duration energy storage” Joule, 102355, ISSN 2542-4351, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2026.102355
  8. Hyeongjun Koh, James N. Burrow, Nicolò D’Anna, Haozhe Zhang, Tharigopala Vincent Beatriceveena, Jiaqi Wang, Jianwei Lai, Yiming Chen, Jordi Cabana, Maria K. Y. Chan, Ethan J. Crumlin, Paul A. Fenter, Timothy T. Fister, Di-Jia Liu, Ying Shirley Meng, Oleg Shpyrko, Kamila Wiaderek, and Kelsey B. Hatzell. 2026. “Advancing Battery Manufacturing: Synchrotron Characterization for Industry” Chemical Reviews, 126 (5), 3089-3124 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00772 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00772
  9. Lihong Zhao, Qiuyi Yuan, Wen Ren, Toshihiro Asada, Chaoshan Wu, Takanori Itoh, Suusaku Ogiu, Takashi Sanada, Shohei Yamashita, Daisuke Shibata, and Yan Yao. 2026. “Chemical imaging of cathode–electrolyte interphase in sulfide solid-state batteries” ACS Energy Lett, 10.1021/acsenergylett.5c03034 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c03034
  10. Grace Wei, Luca Binci, Gerbrand Ceder. 2026. “Microscopic Mechanisms of Superionic Na-ion Conductivity in Crystalline and Amorphous NaMOCl4 (M = Nb, Ta) Solid Electrolytes” ACS Energy Lett. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c03511
  11. Dong-Min Kim, Gan Chen, Michael A. Baird, Livia Pugens Matte, Youngmin Ko, Carson O. Zellmann-Parrotta, Jiwoong Bae, Zhaoyang Chen, Yan Yao, Mary C. Scott, Ying Chen, Brett A. Helms. 2026. “Thermoformable Electrolytes for Solid-State Sodium Metal Batteries Employing Organic Cathodes” ACS Energy Lett. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c00026
  12. Haili Jia, Yiming Chen, Gi-Hyeok Lee, Jacob Smith, Miaofang Chi, Wanli Yang, Maria K. Y. Chan. 2026. “Revealing Local Structures through Machine-Learning-Fused Multimodal Spectroscopy”
    ACS Nano 20, 5, 4228–4240 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c16942
  13. Bingning Wang, Yan Qin, Ying Chen, Sungil Hong, Lihong Gao, Andrew N. Jansen, Rajeev Surendran Assary, Kin Lung See Tho, Jiyu Cai, Zonghai Chen, Yang Qin, Zhengcheng Zhang, Wenquan Lu, Chen Liao. 2025. “A Unique Case of the “Goldilocks Rule” in Solid-State Electrolytes: Two Are Good, Four Are Too Many” ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 8, 24, 17781–17792, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.5c02674 
  14. Dan-Thien Nguyen, Venkateshkumar Prabhakaran, Vaithiyalingam Shutthanandan, Karl T. Mueller, Vijayakumar Murugesan. 2025. “In situ cryogenic X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy unveils metastable components of the solid electrolyte interphase in Li-ion batteries” Chem, 102837, ISSN 2451-9294, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102837
  15. Sokseiha Muy, Kelsey Hatzell, Shirley Meng, Yang Shao-Horn. 2025. “Solid-state batteries: Hype, hopes, and hurdles” Physics Today, DOI: 10.1063/pt.3d9e5d0853
  16. Zirui Wang, Michael A. Pence, Eliot F. Woods, Seth T. Putnam, Ruozhu Feng, Wei Wang, Joaquín Rodríguez-López. 2025. “Automated Redox Titrations via Interdigitated Electrode Arrays: Application to the Mediated Electron Transfer Interrogation of Charge and Rate on Electrodeposited Polymers” ACS Meas. Sci. Au. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.5c00128
  17. Juno Nam, Sulin Liu, Gavin Winter, KyuJung Jun, Soojung Yang and Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli. 2025. “Flow matching for accelerated simulation of atomic transport in crystalline materials” Nature Machine Intelligence, https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-01125-4
  18. Mehdi Karbak, Kyungmin Yim, Ying Shirley Meng, Yuyan Shao and Xu Wu. 2025. “Weakly Solvating Electrolytes: A Solvation-Centric Paradigm for Rechargeable Metal Batteries” Chemical Science, DOI: 10.1039/D5SC06221G, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d5sc06221g
  19. Daren Wu and Kelsey B. Hatzell. 2025. “Chemo-mechanical limitations of liquid alloy anodes for sodium solid-state batteries”EES Batteries, DOI: 10.1039/d5eb00097a, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/eb/d5eb00097a
  20. Jin An Sam Oh, Zihan Yu, Chen-Jui Huang, Phillip Ridley, Alex Liu, Tianren Zhang, Bing Joe Hwang, Kent J. Griffith, Shyue Ping Ong, and Ying Shirley Meng. 2025. “Metastable Sodium Closo-Hydridoborates for All-Solid-State Batteries with Thick Cathodes” Joule, 102130, ISSN 2542-4351, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.102130
  21. Jong-Hwa Shon, Ruozhu Feng, Soowhan Kim, Litao Yan, Yuyan Shao, Wei Wang. 2025. “Vitamin-Mediated Glucose Flow Cell for Sustainable Power Generation” ACS Energy Lett. 10, 11, 5398–5404 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02462
  22. Harshan Reddy Gopidi, Alae Eddine Lakraychi, Abhishek A. Panchal, Yiming Chen, V. S. Chaitanya Kolluru, Jiaqi Wang, Ying Chen, Liu Jue, Kamila Wiaderek, Maria K.Y. Chan, Yan Yao, Pieremanuele Canepa. 2025. “Search for Active and Inactive Ion Insertion Sites in Organic Crystalline Materials” Chemical Science, https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SC07602A
  23. Jacob Smith, Hwangsun Kim, Ke An, Yan Chen, Ondrej Dyck, Kate Reidy, Miaofang Chi. 2025. “Unraveling Materials Synthesis Mechanisms Using In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy and Neutron Scattering” Chem. Rev. 125, 18, 8731–8763 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00063
  24. Bryant Y. Li, Vir Karan, Aaron D. Kaplan, Mingjian Wen, Kristin A. Persson. 2025 “An Atomistic Study of Reactivity in Solid-State Electrolyte Interphase Formation for Li/Li7P3S11” J. Phys. Chem. C, 129, 36, 16043–16054 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c03589
  25. Juran Noh, Heather Marie Job, Hieu A. Doan, Kee Sung Han, Lily A. Robertson, Lu Zhang, Rajeev Surendran Assary, Karl T. Mueller, Vijayakumar Murugesan, and Yangang Liang. 2025. “Automation-Accelerated Electrolyte Design Mitigates Solubility Competition between Redox-Active Molecules and Supporting Salts” ACS Applied Energy Materials, DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.5c02546 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.5c02546
  26. Clara Tamura, Heather Job, Henry Chang, Wei Wang, Yangang Liang, and Shijing Sun. 2025. “Autonomous organic synthesis for redox flow batteries via flexible batch Bayesian optimization.” Digital Discovery, 10. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/dd/d5dd00017c
  27. Wenhua Zuo, Huihuo Zheng, Tanjin He, Venkatram Vishwanath, Maria K.Y. Chan, Rick L. Stevens, Khalil Amine, and Gui-Liang Xu. 2025. “Large language models for batteries.” Joule, 9 (8), 102037, ISSN 2542-4351 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.102037
  28. Roberta Pascazio, Qian Chen, Haoming Howard Li, Aaron D. Kaplan, and Kristin A. Persson. “Toward High-Voltage Cathodes for Zinc-Ion Batteries: Discovery Pipeline and Material Design Rules” Chemistry of Materials 37 (16), 6213-6226. 2025. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00916 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00916
  29. Katherine Steinberg, Wurigumula Bao, Kun Ryu, Ying Shirley Meng, and Betar M. Gallant. “Deciphering Unresolved Materials in Quantitative Analysis of Lithium Metal Solid Electrolyte Interphases” ACS Energy Letters 0, 10. 2025. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.5c01274 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c01274 
  30. Bingning Wang, Lihong Gao, Zhenzhen Yang, Xianyang Wu, Qijia Zhu, Qian Liu, Fulya Dogan, Yang Qin, and Chen Liao. “Interphase Engineering Enabled by Using a Separator with Electrochemically Active Carbazole Polymers for Lithium-Ion Batteries” Polymers 17, no. 13: 1815. 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym17131815.
  31. Chen-Jui Huang, Jin An Sam Oh, Marta Vicencio, Tianchen Hu, Hedi Yang, James N. Burrow, Yen-Fang Song, Gung-Chian Yin, Pavel Shevchenko, Kamila M. Wiaderek, Bing Joe Hwang, and Ying Shirley Meng. “X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography for Structural Analysis of All-Solid-State Battery at Pouch Cell Level” ACS Energy Letters 10 (7), 3459-3470. 2025. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.5c00956
  32. Kyle S. Jiang, Kyeong-Ho Kim, Betar M. Gallant. “How reliable is coin-cell-based ranking of Li anode Coulombic efficiency?,” Joule,  101963, ISSN 2542-4351. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101963.
  33. Ruozhu Feng, Yangang Liang, Tianzhixi Yin, Peiyuan Gao, and Wei Wang. “Agentic Assistant for Materials Scientists.” Electrochem. Soc. Interface. 34-45. 2025. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/2.F09252IF
  34. Zirong He, Nitash P. Balsara. “Understanding the Conductivity and Transference Trade-Off in Polymer Electrolytes Using a Robeson-Inspired Upper Bound,” ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 7 (10), 5960-5968, 2025. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsapm.5c00288
  35. Zhao Liu, Shuang Bai, Sven Burke, James N. Burrow, Remco Geurts, Chen-Jui Huang, Chengge Jiao, Hee-Beom Lee, Ying Shirley Meng, Libor Novák, Bartłomiej Winiarski, Jing Wang, Ken Wu and Minghao Zhang. “FIB-SEM: Emerging multimodal/multiscale characterization techniques for advanced battery development,” Chemical Reviews, 2025. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00831
  36. Minghao Zhang, Karnpiwat Tantratian, So-Yeon HamAmir Avishai, Lei Chen, Ying Shirley Meng. “Grain selection growth of soft metal in electrochemical processes,” Joule, 101847, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101847
  37. Bingning Wang, Hieu A. Doan, Seoung-Bum Son, Daniel P. Abraham, Stephen E. Trask, Andrew Jansen, Kang Xu and Chen Liao. “Data-driven design of electrolyte additives supporting high-performance 5 V LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 positive electrodes,” Nat Commun 16, 3413, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57961-w
  38. Abdelilah Asserghine, Nafisa Ibrahim, Shrayesh N. Patel, Joaquín Rodríguez-López. “Salt matters: How ionic strength and electrolytes impact redox polymer reactivity and dynamics for energy storage,” Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 50 101636, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coelec.2024.101636
  39. Haozhe Zhang, Di-Jia Liu, Kang Xu, and Ying Shirley Meng. “Challenges and Opportunities for Rechargeable Aqueous Sn Metal Batteries,” Adv. Mater., 2417757, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202417757
  40. Ruozhu Feng, Andrey V. Liyu, Soowhan Kim, Chao Zeng, Carter C. Bracken, Yangang Liang and Wei Wang. “Miniaturize the redox flow battery for accelerated materials discovery and development,” J. Electrochem. Soc. 171 120532. 2024. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1945-7111/ad9bef