Stefan ADAMS

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 solid electrolytes as well as their integration into Li/Na-based solid state batteries, aqueous and hybrid metal-air, Li/Na – S/Se etc. 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. K Wang, J Xu, M Xu, F Shen et al.; Dynamic interface regulation in solid-state lithium-metal batteries by in situ polymerized highly elastic ultrathin layers.
   Energy Storage Materials 81 (2025) 104469.
2. L Shi, H Zhang, AK Grebenko et al. Monolayer Amorphous Carbon: Unlocking Disorder‐Induced Lithiophilicity. Advanced Science 13 (2025) e16490.
3. K Wang, AJK Tieu, H Wu, F Shen, X Han, S Adams; Oriented Structures for High Safety, Rate Capability, and Energy Density Lithium Metal Batteries.
   Advanced Science 11 (2025), 2403797.
4. S Adams; Origin of fast Li+-ion conductivity in the compressible oxyhalide LiNbOCl₄.
   Energy Storage Materials 68 (2024) 103359.
5. K Wang, AJK Tieu, Z Wei et al.; Stabilizing LiNi_0.8Co_0.1Mn_0.1O₂ cathode by combined moisture and HF digestion/adsorption for high-performance lithium metal batteries. Energy Storage Materials 67 (2024) 103275.
6. L He, H Ye, Q Sun, AJK Tieu, L Lu, Z Liu, S Adams; In situ curing enables high performance all-solid-state lithium metal batteries based on ultrathin-layer solid electrolytes. Energy Storage Materials 60 (2023) 102838.
7. S Zhang, M Liu, S Guo, AJK Tieu, J Yang, S Adams, SC Tan; Strong, Compressible, and Ultrafast Self‐Recovery Organogel with In Situ Electrical Conductivity Improvement.
   Advanced Functional Materials 33 (2023), 2209129.
8. AJK Tieu, E Mahayoni, Y Li, et al.; Zirconia-free NaSICON solid electrolyte materials for sodium all-solid-state batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 11 (2023), 23233.
9. Y Li, C Li, X Zhang, Y Wang et al.; Incorporating metal precursors towards a library of high-resolution metal parts by stereolithography. Applied Materials Today 29 (2022) 101553.
10. R Dai, M Avdeev, SJ Kim, R Prasada Rao, S Adams; Temperature Dependence of Structure and Ionic Conductivity of LiTa₂PO₈ Ceramics.
    Chemistry of Materials 34 (2022) 10572.
11. 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.
12. 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 17 (2021) 7304.
13. L He, Q Sun, L Lu, S Adams; Understanding and preventing dendrite growth in lithium metal batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13 (2021) 34320.
14. N Flores-González, N Minafra, G Dewald et al.; Mechanochemical Synthesis and Structure of Lithium Tetrahaloaluminates, LiAlX4 (X = Cl, Br, I): A Family of Li-Ion Conducting Ternary Halides. ACS Materials Letters3 (2021) 652.
15. 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.

Software

1. softBV-GUI and softBV: 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 Transport 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://next-gen.materialsproject.org/.

Teaching

1. MLE4210 Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
2. MLE5212 Energy Conversion & Storage
3. MLE4205 Theory and Modelling of Materials Properties
4. MLE5210 Modelling and Simulation of Materials