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Yundong Zhou

Yundong Zhou

Higher scientist

Biography

Yundong completed an undergraduate degree in Materials Science & Engineering at Central South University and finished his final year project on developing dye-sensitized solar cells at Monash University in Australia. Following that, he completed a PhD in developing polymer – ionic liquid composites as solid state electrolytes for solid state batteries at Deakin University. Yundong worked as a Faraday Institution Research Fellow developing an innovative in-situ Raman system for studying cathode – solid electrolyte interface in solid state batteries at University of Liverpool. He also worked shortly in a Cambridge University spin out developing a fast-charging anode material.

Yundong joined the National Centre of Excellence for Mass Spectrometry Imaging at NPL to develop the technique TOF-SIMS and OrbiSIMS for studying materials science including batteries, semiconductors, bio-sensors, inkjet printing devices and pharmaceutical materials.

Yundong is the 2024 NPL Internal Scientific Award winner: Lomonosov (early career) in Chemistry & Environmental Science and 2024 NPL Rayleigh Award early career paper co-author.

Research interests

  • ToF SIMS & OrbiSIMS metrology
  • SIMS for semiconductors
  • In-situ SIMS for batteries
  • Solid electrolyte interphase layers
  • Cathode - solid electrolyte interface in solid state batte

Selected publications:

  1. Yundong Zhou, Alexis Franquet, Valentina Spampinato, Alex Merkulov, Michael R Keenan, Paul AW van der Heide, Gustavo F Trindade, Wilfried Vandervorst, Ian S Gilmore, OrbiSIMS depth profiling of semiconductor materials—Useful yield and depth resolution, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 42(2024)053208.
  2. Hao Zhang, Zhibo Song, Kai Yang, Yundong Zhou, Yuchen Ji, Lu Wang, Yuxiang Huang, Shenyang Xu, Jianjun Fang, Wenguang Zhao, Guoyu Qian, Shanglin Wu, José V. Anguita, Gustavo F. Trindade, Shida Xue, Haoliang Wang, Ian S. Gilmore, Yan Zhao, Feng Pan, In Situ Aminolysis of Fluoroethylene Carbonate Induced Low-Resistance Interphase Facilitating Extreme Fast Charging of Graphite Anodes, Adv. Energy Mater., (2025) 2406104.
  3. Hashini Perera, Thomas Webb, Yuliang Xu, Jingwei Zhu, Yundong Zhou, Gustavo Trindade, Mateus Gallucci Masteghin, Steven P Harvey, Sandra Jenatsch, Linjie Dai, Sanjayan Sathasivam, Tom Macdonald, Steven Hinder, Yunlong Zhao, Samuel D Stranks, Dewei Zhao, Wei Zhang, Imalka Jayawardena, Saif Ahmed Haque, S Ravi P Silva, 23.2% efficient low band gap perovskite solar cells with cyanogen management, Energy Environ. Sci., 18(2024)439-453.
  4. Ruwei Chen, Wei Zhang, Chaohong Guan, Yundong Zhou, Ian Gilmore, Hao Tang, Zhenyu Zhang, Haobo Dong, Yuhang Dai, Zijuan Du, Xuan Gao, Wei Zong, Yewei Xu, Peie Jiang, Jiyang Liu, Fangjia Zhao, Jianwei Li, Xiaohui Wang, Guanjie He, Rational Design of an In‐Situ Polymer‐Inorganic Hybrid Solid Electrolyte Interphase for Realising Stable Zn Metal Anode under Harsh Conditions, Angew. Chem., 136(2024)e202401987.
  5. Xuhui Yao, Xuekun Lu, Yundong Zhou, Tomáš Šamořil, Jinxin Bi, Mateus G. Masteghin, Huixing Zhang, Leslie Askew, JeongWon Kim, Fangyu Xiong, Jianan Wang, David C. Cox, Tan Sui, Ian Gilmore, S. Ravi P. Silva, Liqiang Mai, Gareth Hinds, Paul R. Shearing, Juyeon Park, Yunlong Zhao, Rectifying interphase for preventing li dendrite propagation in solid-state electrolytes, Energy Environ. Sci., 16(2023)2167. 2024 NPL Rayleigh Paper
  6. Jonathan Austin, Yundong Zhou, Geoffrey Rivers, Negar Gilani, Feiran Wang, Christopher Tuck, Ian Gilmore, Richard Hague,Gustavo Trindade, Lyudmila Turyanska, Inkjet Printing of Heterostructures: Investigation and Strategies for Control of Interfaces, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces., 2025.
  7. Kyprianos Michaelides, Mohamad Anas Al Tahan, Yundong Zhou, Gustavo F Trindade, David JH Cant, Yiwen Pei, Pawan Dulal, Ali Al-Khattawi, New Insights on the Burst Release Kinetics of Spray-Dried PLGA Microspheres, Mol. Pharmaceutics 21(2024)6245–6256.
  8. Michael J Counihan, Devon J Powers, Pallab Barai, Shiyu Hu, Teodora Zagorac, Yundong Zhou, Jungkuk Lee, Justin G Connell, Kanchan S Chavan, Ian S Gilmore, Luke Hanley, Venkat Srinivasan, Yuepeng Zhang, Sanja Tepavcevic, Understanding the influence of Li7La3Zr2O12 nanofibers on critical current density and coulombic efficiency in composite polymer electrolytes, ACS Appl. Mater. Interface, 15(2023)26047-26059.
  9. Jungwoo Lim, Yundong Zhou, Rory H Powell, Tugce Ates, Stefano Passerini, Laurence J Hardwick, Localised degradation within sulfide-based all-solid-state electrodes visualised by Raman mapping, Chem. Commun., 59(2023)7982-7985.
  10. Manman Wang, Zhibo Song, Jinxin Bi, Huanxin Li, Ming Xu, Yi Gong, Yundong Zhou*, Yunlong Zhao*, Kai Yang*, Probing interfacial electrochemistry by in situ atomic force microscope for battery characterization, Batt. Energy, 2(2023)2023006.
  11. Jonathan S. Austin, Nathan D. Cottam, Chengxi Zhang, Feiran Wang, Jonathan H. Gosling, Oliver Nelson-Dummet, Tyler S. S. James, Peter H. Beton, Gustavo F. Trindade, Yundong Zhou, Christopher J. Tuck, Richard Hague, Oleg Makarovsky, Lyudmila Turyanska, Photosensitisation of inkjet printed graphene with stable all-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals, Nanoscale, 15(2023)2134-2142.
  12. Sofia Marchesini, Benjamen Reed, Helen Jones, Lidija Matjacic, Timothy Rosser, Yundong Zhou, Barry Brennan, Mariavitalia Tiddia, Rhodri Jervis, Melanie Loveridge, Rinaldo Raccichini, Juyeon Park, Andrew Wain, Gareth Hinds, Ian Gilmore, Alexander Shard, Andrew Pollard, Surface analysis of pristine and cycled NMC/graphite lithium-ion battery electrodes: addressing the measurement challenges, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14(2022)52779-52793.
  13. Yundong Zhou, Xiaoen Wang, Haijin Zhu, George W. Greene, Michel Armand, Jennifer M. Pringle, Patrick C. Howlett, Phase behaviour and electrochemical properties of solid lithium electrolytes based on N-ethyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide and PVdF composites, Solid State Ionics, 363(2021)115588.
  14. Mauro Pasta, et al., Yundong Zhou, Peter Bruce, 2020 Roadmap on solid-state batteries, Journal of Physics: Energy, 2(2020)032008.
  15. Yundong Zhou, Christopher Doerrer, Jitti Kasemchainan, Peter G. Bruce, Mauro Pasta, Laurence Hardwick, Observation of Interfacial Degradation of Li6PS5Cl against Lithium Metal and LiCoO2 via In Situ Electrochemical Raman Microscopy, Batteries & Supercaps, 3(2020)1-7.
  16. Yundong Zhou 2018, Development of nano-structured plastic crystal/polymer composites as solid state electrolytes, Ph.D thesis, Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University.
  17. Yundong Zhou, Xiaoen Wang, Haijin Zhu, Michel Armand, Maria Forsyth, George W. Greene, Jennifer M. Pringle, Patrick C. Howlett, Ternary lithium-salt organic ionic plastic crystal polymer composite electrolytes for high voltage, all-solid-state batteries, Energy Storage Materials, 15(2018)407-414.
  18. Haijin Zhu, Xiaoen Wang, Ranganathan Vijayaraghava, Yundong Zhou, Douglas R. MacFarlane, Maria Forsyth, Structure and Ion Dynamics in Imidazolium-Based Protic Organic Ionic Plastic Crystals, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 9(2018)3904-3909.
  19. Jun Rao, Vijayraghavan Ranganathan, Yundong Zhou, Patrick C. Howlett, Douglas R. MacFarlane, Maria Forsyth, Haijin Zhu, Influence of Electrospun Poly(Vinylidene Difluoride) Nanofiber Matrix on the Ion Dynamics of a Protic Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C, 122(2018)14546-14553.
  20. Jun Rao, Vijayraghavan Ranganathan, Yundong Zhou, Patrick C. Howlett, Douglas R. MacFarlane, Maria Forsyth, Haijin Zhu, The influence of anion chemistry on the ionic conductivity and molecular dynamics in protic organic ionic plastic crystals, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(2018)4579-4586.
  21. Yundong Zhou, Xiaoen Wang, Haijin Zhu, Masahiro Yoshizawa-Fujita, Yukari Miyachi, Michel Armand, Maria Forsyth, George W. Greene, Jennifer M. Pringle, Patrick C. Howlett, Solid-state lithium conductors for lithium metal batteries based on electrospun nanofiber/plastic crystal composites, ChemSusChem, 10(2017)3135-3145.
  22.  Xiaoen Wang, Haijin Zhu, George W. Greene, Yundong Zhou, Masahiro Yoshizawa-Fujita, Yukari Miyachi, Michel Armand, Maria Forsyth, Jennifer M. Pringle, Patrick C. Howlett, Organic ionic plastic crystal-based composite electrolyte with surface enhanced ion transport and its use in all-solid-state lithium batteries, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2017, 1700046. Cover picture.
  23. Yundong Zhou, Xiaoen Wang, Haijin Zhu, Michel Armand, George W. Greene, Maria Forsyth, Jennifer M. Pringle, Patrick C. Howlett, N-ethyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide-electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride composite electrolytes: characterization and lithium cell studies, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(2017)2225-2234.