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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 battery material surfaces and interfaces. TOF-SIMS and OrbiSIMS are useful techniques for studying batteries and will be used widely in the future.

Research interests

  • SEI layers
  • Solid electrolyte - liquid electrolyte interface
  • Cathode - solid electrolyte interface in solid state batteries
  • Cathode coating layers and transition metal dissolution from cathodes

Email Yundong Zhou

Contact button: Yundong.zhou@npl.co.uk

Selected publications:

  1. Mauro Pasta, et al., Yundong Zhou, Peter Bruce, 2020 Roadmap on solid-state batteries, Journal of Physics: Energy, 2(2020)032008.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.