ADAMS Stefan

Research Interests

My research group combines electrochemical and structural (diffraction, NMR) operando experimental studies on materials, interfaces and devices for sustainable energy applications with computational materials science approaches (charge transport pathways from bond valence analysis, multilevel MD simulations, artificial intelligence) to advance the development of Li/Na-based batteries, aqueous and hybrid metal-air, Li/Na – S/Se, redox flow batteries etc. Recently we also take up battery lifecycle studies, predicting and managing battery performance during second-life as well as battery materials recycling. Thereby we contribute to enabling high energy density batteries for sustainable grid support and e-mobility in the form of safer, low cost and sustainable high performance batteries.

Selected Publications:

1. LL Wong, KC Phuah, R Dai, H Chen, WS Chew, S Adams; Bond Valence Pathway Analyzer – An Automatic Rapid Screening Tool for Fast Ion Conductors within softBV.
   Chemistry of Materials 33 (2021) 625.
2. Y Qin, S Adams, C Yuen; A Transfer Learning-based State of Charge Estimation for Lithium-Ion Battery at Varying Ambient Temperatures. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2021) DOI:10.1109/TII.2021.3051048.
3. L He, Q Sun, L Lu, S Adams; Understanding and Preventing Dendrite Growth in Lithium Metal Batteries. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 13 (2021) in press.
4. Y Pu, R Dai, S Adams; Accelerated Design of Battery Materials Interfaces by Embedded-Atom-Inspired Bond-Valence Sum Forcefields. physica status solidi a, 218 (2021) DOI:10.1002/pssa.202100318 (Invited).
5. AH Salehi, SM Masoudpanah, M Hasheminiasari et al.; Facile synthesis of hierarchical porous Na3V2(PO4)3/C composites with high-performance Na storage properties. Journal of Power Sources 481 (2021) 228828.
6. L Zhang, B He, Q Zhao et al; A Database of Ionic Transport Characteristics for Over 29 000 Inorganic Compounds. Advanced Functional Materials 30 (2020) 2003087.
7. X Yin, L Wang, Y Kim, et al. Thermal Conductive 2D Boron Nitride for High-Performance All-Solid-State Lithium-Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Science 7 (2020) 2001303.
8. Z Lyu, GJH Lim, R Guo et al. 3D-printed electrodes for lithium metal batteries with high areal capacity and high-rate capability. Energy Storage Materials 2 (2020) 336.
9. Y Cheng, X Wang, S Huang et al. Redox targeting-based vanadium redox-flow battery. ACS Energy Letters 4 (2019) 3028.
10. J Zhou, X Wang, Y Liu et al.; Large spin-orbit torque efficiency enhanced by magnetic structure of collinear antiferromagnet IrMn. Science Advances 5 (2019) eaau6696.
11. X Yin, W Tang, KC Phua et al; Insights into morphological evolution and cycling behaviour of lithium metal anode under mechanical pressure. Nano Energy 50 (2018) 659.
12. M Duchardt, U Ruschewitz, S Adams et al; Vacancy-Controlled Na+ Superion Conduction in Na11Sn2PS12. Angewandte Chemie Int. Edition 57 (2018) 1351.
13. R Prasada Rao, H Chen, LL Wong, S Adams; Na3+xMxP1-xS4 (M = Ge4+, Ti4+, Sn4+) Enables High Rate All-Solid-State Na-ion Batteries Na2+2dFe2-d(SO4)3|Na3+xMxP1-xS4|Na2Ti3O7. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 5 (2017) 3377.
14. D Ji, S Peng, D Safanama, et al.; Design of 3D hierarchical architectures of carbon and highly active transition-metals (Fe, Co, Ni) as bifunctional oxygen catalysts for hybrid lithium-air batteries. Chemistry of Materials 29 (2017) 1665.
15. D Safanama, S Adams; Flexible Light-Weight Lithium-Ion-Conducting Inorganic-Organic Composite Electrolyte Membrane. ACS Energy Letters 2 (2017) 1130.
16. YG Zhu, Q Liu, Y Rong, H Chen et al. Proton enhanced dynamic battery chemistry for aprotic lithium-oxygen batteries. Nature Communications 8 (2017) 14308.

Software

1. softBV and softBV-GUI: High Throughput screening of materials for use as solid electrolyte or insertion electrode material.
   Free for academic use from our research group web page.
2. SPSE: Database of Ion Tranport Pathways in Solids (with Shanghai Materials Genome Institute).
   Free access from https://matgen.nscc-gz.cn/solidElectrolyte/.
3. Bond valence diffusion data within Materials Project Battery Explorer App (developed and maintained by LBNL).
   Free access from https://materialsproject.org/.

Teaching

1. MLE2101 Introduction to Structure of Materials
2. MLE4102a Design Project
3. MLE4205 Theory and Modelling of Materials Properties
4. MLE5210 Modelling and Simulation of Materials