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The Electrochemical Engineering for Materials Lab at Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in University of Alabama is exploring electrochemistry and engineering principles to make new materials and new structures for electronic, energy, and quantum applications.
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Recent News

07/23/24, Quanhong's second paper got published only one month after her first paper. Congratulations again.

06/20/24, Quanhong's first paper got published. Congratulations.

05/01/24, Algene won the grand award for 2024 Alabama Material Institute Research Image Contest.

04/05/24, Algene won the excellent Teaching assistant award from the department.

01/01/24, Kamal is back from an industry internship.

09/22/23, Kamal's second paper on flexible superconductor just went online. Congratulations!

06/08/23, Kamal and Quanhong have both passed their proposal exams and have become Ph.D. candidates. Congratulations!

06/01/23, Algene and Zhefan have both passed their Ph.D. qualifying exams. Congratulations!

06/01/23, Kamal's first paper just went online. Congratulations!

03/25/23, Cole and Ethan completed our first model of superconductor maglev train and showed it to K12 kids in our outreach in a local Children's museum. Check out the photos!

08/15/22, Welcome two new PhD students, Algene and Zhefan, join the group this Fall!

05/02/22, Three papers have been published recently. Congratulations to Yang, Behzad, and other co-authors!

04/19/22, Another patent has been granted to our group on a new electrodeposition method.

04/03/22, Congratulations to Nick Scudder for his Randalls Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, Capstone Engineering Society Student Award, his graduation in a month, and admission to graduate school.

10/01/21, Congratulations to Yang Hu for his graduation with Ph.D. and his new career at Intel. Enjoy the west coast !

05/28/21, Two recent US patents have been granted to our group on electrochemical processes and devices.

01/31/21, Yang published a paper on the grain structure and impurity in electrodeposited Co using atom probe tomography. Congratulations.

10/03/20, Congratulations to John White for being selected as an awardee for Future Leaders in Chemical Engineering.

04/03/20, Congratulations to John White for his Randall's Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award.

03/24/20, Five papers have been published in the first quarter of 2020, congratulations to the graduate students and postdoc, Yang, Will, and Shuvo.

02/21/20, Congratulation to Yang Hu for his Engineer of the Year Graduate Student Award for the ChBE department and COE college.

01/10/20, Our group has been awarded a NSF CAREER grant to work on novel electrodeposition methods for superconductor fabrication.

01/08/20, Behzad Malekpouri joins the group as PhD student.

12/30/19, Congratulation to Yang Hu, for his second paper being accepted.

11/14/19, Congratulations to Will Sides' successful defense of his PhD dissertation and Best wishes to him for his next stop at Western Digital in California !

10/15/19, Yang Hu presented a talk on his research at the 236th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Atlanta, GA.

05/30/19, Will Sides presented a talk on his research at the 235th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Dallas, TX.

05/30/19, Yang Hu made his first conference presentation on his research at the 235th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Dallas, TX.

03/30/19, Congratulations to two undergraduate researchers. Tim Brusuelas has been selected as a recipient for Randall's Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award; Dan Mantoni has been selected as a winner for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Poster Award.

02/15/19, Congratulations to two graduate students. Will Sides was selected as the awardee for Graduate Student Engineer of the Year; Yang Hu was selected as a recipient for UA Graduate Council Fellowship.

11/30/18, Yang Hu's first paper got published online.

11/30/18, Our superconductor paper got published online.

10/30/18, Tim Brusuelas and Yang Hu presented two papers at UA MINT workshop.

10/5/18, Will Sides presented two papers at Electrochemical Society Meeting in Cancun, Mexico.

9/1/18, Will Sides' second paper got published.

3/6/18, Ryan Morelock's paper got published.

1/27/18, Ryan Morelock and Tyler Lyons are both selected for UA Alumni Outstanding Senior Awards. Two of the only ten awardees !

1/19/18, Will Sides' first paper got accepted.

11/3/17, Our students presented in Homewood High School in Birmingham on STEM education and the career paths.

10/1/17, Will Sides presented his research at the Electrochemical Society Meeting in National Harbor, MD

9/25/17, Ryan Morelock was selected as an awardee for Future Leaders in Chemical Engineering, a National Award Symposium for Undergraduate Researchers.

9/1/17, Our paper on 3D printing is published.

7/1/17, Tyler Lyons' second paper is published.

6/1/17, Keaton Ramsey, Tyler Lyons, and Will Sides presented their research at the Electrochemical Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

5/6/17, Congratulations to Paul Chilsom, Kyle Pecot and Keaton Ramsey for their graduation.

4/6/17, Congratulations to undergraduate researchers, William Freeman, Tyler Lyons, Ryan Morelock, Kyle Pecot, and Keaton Ramsey for getting various awards at ChBE award reception.

4/3/17, Kyle Pecot (and his partners) won the $50,000 grand prize in Edward Aldag Business Plan Competition for their own start-up company.

3/30/17, Undergraduate researchers, William Freeman, Tyler Lyons, Ryan Morelock, Ryan Pak, and Keaton Ramsey presented their posters in UA undergraduate research conference.

3/7/17, Keaton Ramsey and Tyler Lyons received 2017 Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards.

11/14/16, Tyler Lyons presented a poster "Electrodeposition of Cobalt for Interconnect Applications" on AICHE national meeting in San Francisco and won a third place award in the undergraduate student poster competition.

10/27/16, Will Sides and Tyler Lyons presented their research at 2016 annual Fall Review and Workshop of center for Materials for Information Technology (MINT). 

10/04/16, Our paper on "Electrodeposition of Cobalt for Interconnect Application" has been published.

9/29/16, Will gave a department seminar "Electrodeposition of SmSe and MnTe from Ionic Liquids".

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