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2017

    January 24th, 2017
• Congratulations to Biwei Xiao on passing his Ph.D. defense smoothly. Both commitee chair and members highly praised him for his confidence in presentation and defense.

   January 15th, 2017
• Welcome Keegam Adair and Dr. Lei Zhang to join our group.

2016

December 23rd, 2016
• Welcome Yipeng Sun and Dawei Wang to join our group.

December 8th, 2016
• Congratulations to Jianneng and Fei on passing their Ph.D comprehensive examinations.

November 29th, 2016
• Congratulations to Dr. Sun on receiving the Professional Achievement Awards from Cross-cultural Professionals Association of Canada (CPAC). [Read more][Read more]

November 17th, 2016
• Welcome Xiaofei Yang to visit our group.

October 11th, 2016
• Welcome Dr. Hong Guo and Yisi Liu to visit our group.

September 12th, 2016
• Congratulations to Xia on passing her Ph. D defense.

September 7th, 2016
• Congratulations to Dr. Sun on being named the Royal Society of Canada Fellow. [Read more][Read more][Read more][Watch video][Youku video]

September 1st, 2016
• Welcome Weihan, Minsi, Xiaoting and Changhong to join our group.

July 3th, 2016
• Congratulations to Dr. Sun on being named the Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow. [Read more][Read more][Watch video][Youku video]

April 30th, 2016
• Nano-energy Workshop was held in Western Engineering.

March 31st, 2016
• Congratulations to Yang on passing his Ph. D comprehensive exam.

March 9th, 2016
• Congratulations to Dr. Sun on receiving NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants. [Read more]

January 30th, 2016
• Welcome Fei, Jiwei and Heng to join our group under the Western-Soochow 2+2 Ph.D program in collaboration with Prof. T.-K Sham, Prof. Yang Song and Prof. Jeff Sun.

2015

November 11th, 2015
• Congratulations to Zhongxin Song on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

November 4th, 2015
• Congratulations to Qizheng Li on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

October 8th, 2015
• Congratulations to Stephen Lawes on passing his Master Defence!

September 24th, 2015
• Congratulations to Adam Riese on passing his Master Defence!

September 1st, 2015
• Welcome Jianneng Liang to join our group as a M.E.Sc student!

Feburary 24th, 2015
• Congratulations to Wei Xiao on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

Feburary 13th, 2015
• Congratulations to Xia Li on receiving the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad. [Read more]

Feburary 10th, 2015
• Congratulations to Yulong Liu on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

2014

November 19th, 2014
• Congratulations to Craig Langford on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

September 25th, 2014
• Congratulations to Jian Liu on receiving MITACS fellow award and NSERC Post-doc fellow award; [Read more]
• Congratulations to Andrew Lushington on receiving NSERC CGS - Canada Graduate Scholarships award; [Read more]
• Congratulations to Stephen Lawes on receiving Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) award; [Read more]
• Congratulations to Adam Riese on receiving Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) award; [Read more]
• Congratulations to Yuhai Hu on receiving NSERC Industrial Fellow award; [Read more]
• Congratulations to Dr. Sun on receiving Engineering Prize for Achievement in Research award; [Read more]

September 24th, 2014
• Congratulations to Yuhai Hu on passing Ph. D. Defense!

July 22th, 2014
• Congratulations to Jian for his paper published on Adv. Mater., titled by "Rational Design of Atomic Layere Deposited LiFePO4 as High Performance Cathode for Lithium Ion Batteries".

July 22th, 2014
• Congratulations to Xia to publish a couple of papers in CC, JMC and RSC Adv. etc. on Li-S batteries since she joined our group in two years.

May 1st, 2014
• Nano-energy Workshop was held in Western Engineering.

April 10th, 2014
• Congratulations to Hossein Yadegari on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

March 28th, 2014
• Dr. Sun was promoted as Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in development of Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion. [Read more]

March 27th, 2014
• Our group was reported on Western News. [Read more]

March 24th, 2014
• Congratulations to Andrew Lushington on passing Ph. D Comprehensive Exam!

March 6th, 2014
• Our paper "Size-dependent Surface Phase Change of Lithium Iron Phosphate during Carbon Coating" published on "Nature Communications" was reported by Brookhaven National Lab of US. [Read more]

March 5th, 2014
• Our group was reported by the local Metro newspaper. [Read more]

March 5th, 2014
• Many congratulations to Jiajun Wang for his paper about "Size-dependent surface phase change of lithium iron phosphate during carbon coating" published in Nature Communications, this paper was highlighted by the Western Media Relations on March 5th and the Londoner Local News on March 7th. [Read more; More]

2013

• Dr. Sun was appointed as an Associate Editor for "Frontier in Energy Storage" in 2013. [R ead more; M ore].

• Congratulations to Biqiong Wang on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

• Congratulations to Xia Li on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

• Congratulations to Yongliang Li for his paper published in Chemical Communications is highlighted by "Materials Today"! [Read more]

• Many congratulations to Jinli Yang and Jian Liu on receiving "Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students"!

• Congratulations to Dongniu Wang on passing Ph. D. Defense!

• Congratulations to Jinli Yang on passing Ph. D. Defense!

• Congratulations to Jian Liu on passing Ph. D. Defense!

• Congratulations to Yongliang Li on passing Ph. D. Defense!

• Many congratulations to Jiajun Wang for his paper entitled "Surface aging at olivine LiFePO₄: a direct visual observation of iron dissolution and the protection role of nano-carbon coating" was highlighted on the Journal of Materials Chemistry blog (http://blogs.rsc.org/jm/) !

• Research strips down precious platinum to nano-sized fuel cell catalyst--scientists discover how to build cheaper, more efficient fuel cells. [Read more]

• Many congratulations to Jinli Yang for the paper "LiFePO₄/graphene as a Superior Cathode Material for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries: Impact of Stacked Graphene and Unfolded Graphene" published in Energy & Environmental Science is featured as back cover page!

• Congratulations to Biwei Xiao on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

• Dr. Andy Sun attended the Bilateral Workshop and the Inauguration of the Soochow University & Western University Centre for Synchrotron Radiation Research. [Read more]

• Congratulations to Dr. Andy Sun's Canada Research Chair (CRC) renewal from Oct. 1, 2012 for another five years! [Read more]

• Many congratulations to Jiajun Wang for his paper about "Understanding and Recent Development of Carbon Coating on LiFePO₄ Cathode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries" as Top 25 most-read Energy & Environmental Science articles in 2012! [Read more]

• Congratulations to Dongsheng Geng on passing Ph. D. Defense!

• Many congratulations to Xifei Li for his paper "Tin Oxide with Controlled Morphology and Crystallinity by Atomic Layer Deposition onto Graphene Nanosheets for Enhanced Lithium Storage" is the Most Accessed from 12/2011~11/2012 in Advanced Functional Materials!

2012

• Congratulations to Mohammad Norouzi Banis on passing Ph. D. Defense!

• Congratulations to Hamid Norouzi Banis on passing ME. Sc. Defense!

• Congratulations to Xiangbo (Henry) Meng for his paper to publish in Advanced Materials titled by "Emerging Applications of Atomic Layer Deposition for Lithium-Ion Battery Studies"!

• Congratulations to Shuhui Sun awarded 2012 Governor General’s Gold Medal! [Read more]

• Congratulations to Shuhui Sun to accept offer as Assistant Professor at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Montreal, Canada!

• Congratulations to Xifei Li for his paper titled by "Tin Oxide with Controlled Morphology and Crystallinity by Atomic Layer Deposition onto Graphene Nanosheets for Enhanced Lithium Storage" published and highlighted as "Frontispiece" in Advanced Functional Materials!

• Congratulations to Dr. Andy Sun has been promoted to Full Professor!

• Congratulations to Yongliang Li for his paper published in Electrochemistry Communications is highlighted by "Green Car Congress"! It was the most downloaded papers in last 90 days. (Updated on May. 5, 2012)

• Congratulations to Dr. Andy Sun's group on receiving CFI funding boost! [Read more]

• Our two papers titled by "Superior Cycle Stability of Nitrogen-doped Graphene Nanosheets as Anode for Lithium Ion Batteries" and "Nitrogen-doped Carbon Nanotubes as Cathode for Lithium-Air Batteries" published in Electrochemistry Communications were the most downloaded papers in last 90 days. (Updated on Jan. 5, 2012)

2011

• Congratulations to Jiajun Wang to publish a review paper titled by "Understanding and Recent Development of Carbon Coating on LiFePO₄ Cathode Material for Lithium-ion Batteries" in Energy & Environmental Science! And it was the most-read paper in November 2011.

• Congratulations to Yu Zhong on passing PhD Defense!

• Congratulations to Shuhui Sun on passing PhD Defense!

• Congratulations to Dongsheng Geng on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

• Congratulations to Xiangbo (Henry) Meng on passing PhD Defense!

• Congratulations to Yongliang Li for his paper published in Chemical Communications is highlighted by "Green Car Congress" and "Materials Today"!

• Congratulations to Yongliang Li for his paper published in Electrochemistry Communications is highlighted by "Lightbright", "EV-Olution" and "Green Car Congress"!

• Congratulations to Dongsheng Geng for his paper published in the top journal of Energy, Energy & Environmental Science! Also, it was featured by "Materials Today"!

• Congratulations to Xiangbo (Henry) Meng for his paper published in Nanotechnology is highlighted by "Nanotechweb". And it will be featured by Front Cover Page!

• Congratulations to Jiajun Wang on receiving MITACS Elevate Fellow Award!

• Congratulations to Gaixia Zhang on receiving NSERC PDF Award!

• Congratulations to Mihnea Ioan Ionescu on passing PhD Defense!

• Congratulations to Shuhui Sun for his paper published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Vol. 50, 422-426, 2011)! Also, it was featured by Front Cover and highlighted by "Nature Nanotechnology" & "Materials Today"!

2010

• Congratulations to Giaxia on receiving MITACS Elevate Fellow Award!

• Congratulations to Xiangbo (Henry) Meng for his achievements of publishing and submitting four papers about Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) in 2010!

• Congratulations to Yougui (Alex) Chen on passing PhD Defense!

• Congratulations to Yongliang Li on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

• Congratulations to Dongniu Wang on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

• Congratulations to Jinli Yang on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

• Congratulations to Jian Liu on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

• Dr. Andy Sun was invited to give a talk and chair section on "International Conference on Portable Fuel Cells".

• Dr. Andy Sun with his battery sub-group members attended "The 15th International Meeting on Lithium Batteries".

• Dr. Andy Sun was invited to give a talk and chair a section on "The 8th International Symposium on New Materials and Nano-Materials for Electrochemical Systems".

• Shuhui Sun received award of conference travel from "International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) 2010" and gave a talk.

• Congratulations to Dr. Andy Sun on receiving “Faculty Scholar Award”!

• Congratulations to Gaixia Zhang for her papers highlighted by Chemistry – A European Journal and Chemistry of Materials!

• Business London takes a look at the leading-edge nanotechnology at work in the automotive field of Dr. Sun's lab. —— "Business London: Accelerating Automotive Technology"

• Congratulations to Shuhui Sun for his paper highlighted by Chemistry – A European Journal!

• Congratulations to Hao Liu on passing PhD Defense!

• Congratulations to Xiangbo (Henry) Meng on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

• Congratulations to Mohammad Norouzi Banis on passing PhD Comprehensive Exam!

• Congratulations to Dr. Andy Sun on receiving “Canada Research Chairs”!

• Congratulations to Dr. Andy Sun on receiving “Early Researcher Awards”!