2025
August 31 – A new paper is published in Small Science, explaining dendrite suppression in sodium metal batteries using size-controlled talc nanosheet ionogel electrolytes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smsc.202500399.
August 13 – A recent work is published in Carbon Trends, introducing all-in-one inks for one-step printing of micro-supercapacitors: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667056925001129.
May 2 – A recent paper is published in Journal of Power Sources, reporting printable graphene on separators for lithium-ion batteries with high-mass-loading electrodes: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2025.237210.
March 27 – Yuxing Gu is awarded the most innovative project award from the GTIIT research poster competition.
February 26 – A recent work on printable graphene inks is published in Communications Materials: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-025-00753-y.
February 24 – A new paper is published in Nano Letters, introducing talc nanosheet ionogel electrolytes with high lithium-ion conductivity for solid-state lithium metal batteries: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05442.
2024
December 31 – Many thanks for joining the end-of-year dinner. Happy new year!

October 23 – Peiyu Lin and Shiwei Zhou joins our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
April 16 – Huihui He successfully defended her master’s thesis. Congratulations!
2023
December 26 – Many thanks for joining the end-of-year dinner. Happy new year!

November 23 – Jiaming Li and Yijia Huang join our group as research assistants, as well as prospective PhD students. Welcome!
September 4 – Yuxing Gu joins our group as a research assistant and prospective PhD student. Welcome!
August 24 – Prof. Woo Jin Hyun is awarded the International Excellent Young Scientist Fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
August 17 – A GTIIT grant is awarded to support our joint research with Technion in Israel.
August 4 – A new paper is published in Advanced Materials, demonstrating fully printed, high-temperature micro-supercapacitor arrays with hexagonal boron nitride nanoplatelet ionogel electrolytes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202305161.
July 11 – A recent work is published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, reporting enhanced LiMn2O4 electrode stability with an ionic liquid electrolyte: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.3c04961.
July 6 – Xiaoqian Zhong will be joining our group soon as a mater’s student. Welcome!
April 28 – We have a new publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2023/ta/d3ta01307c.
2022
November 11 – A general program grant is awarded from Guangdong Natural Science Foundation to support our research.
September 1 – Huihui He joins our group as a master’s student. Welcome!
July 15 – Jian Du joins our group as a lab technician.
July 12 – Xinjie Luo joins our group as a master’s student.
July 5 – Sprout funding and graduate student scholarship are awarded from the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion (MATEC) to support our research.
June 21 – Our new paper in Nano Letters is out online, demonstrating mechanically deformable solid-state lithium-ion batteries using screen-printable hexagonal boron nitride ionogel electrolytes: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01364.
April 27 – Our advertisement for postdoctoral/research fellows is posted on the official GTIIT website: https://sites.gtiit.edu.cn/research/positions/rf-2022002/. Do not hesitate to contact us if interested.
April 27 – We are hiring a lab manager/technician. If interested, please see the advertisement on the official GTIIT website: https://www.gtiit.edu.cn/en/viewRecruit.aspx?flowNo=1306.
April 11 – We are looking for research assistants. If interested, check out our advertisement: https://www.gtiit.edu.cn/en/viewRecruit.aspx?flowNo=1304.
March 30 – A recent work on blade-coatable hexagonal boron nitride ionogel electrolytes is published in ACS Energy Letters: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c00535.
February 28 – Our advertisement for Ph.D./master’s students is posted on the official GTIIT website: https://sites.gtiit.edu.cn/research/positions/gs-2022005/. Check it out if interested in studying with us.
February 1 – Woo Jin Hyun starts his professorship at GTIIT.