Yundong Zhou

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

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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.