Faculty profile
Yang Zhao
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Research
Latest papers
Closed-loop Recycling of Sulfide Solid Electrolytes from Spent Solid-State Sodium Batteries.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026 · senior author
Revealing the Neglected Role of Passivation Layers of Current Collectors for Solid-State Anode-Free Batteries.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025 · senior author
Anion sublattice design enables superionic conductivity in crystalline oxyhalides.
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025
Latest funding
- $120,000
Photocurable Polymer Composite Solid Electrolytes for Solid-state Li Batteries
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $160,000
The development of solid-state membrane for high-performance solid-state Li batteries
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $385,000
Direct Recycling of Spent Solid-state Lithium and Sodium Batteries
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
47 publications.
Closed-loop Recycling of Sulfide Solid Electrolytes from Spent Solid-State Sodium Batteries.
Xu Y, Elawadly R, D'Souza RM, Jin E, Yang Y, Martins V, Wang Y, Gan Y, Yang M, Zhang R, Huang Y, Pang X, Ma X, Tu QH, Zhao Y
Revealing the Neglected Role of Passivation Layers of Current Collectors for Solid-State Anode-Free Batteries.
Wang Y, Jose B, Yuan Y, Ganesh A, Faisal RM, Chan KH, Bekou J, Liu L, Kaghazchi P, Zhao Y
Anion sublattice design enables superionic conductivity in crystalline oxyhalides.
Zhao F, Zhang S, Wang S, Reid JW, Xia W, Liu J, King G, Kaduk JA, Liang J, Luo J, Gao Y, Yang F, Zhao Y, Li W, Alahakoon SH, Guo J, Huang Y, Sham TK, Mo Y, Sun X
An active bifunctional natural dye for stable all-solid-state organic batteries.
Yu Q, Hu Y, Deng S, Shakouri M, Chen J, Martins V, Nie HY, Huang Y, Zhao Y, Zaghib K, Sham TK, Li X
Solid solvation structure design improves all-solid-state organic batteries.
Hu Y, Su H, Fu J, Luo J, Yu Q, Zhao F, Li W, Deng S, Liu Y, Yuan Y, Gan Y, Wang Y, Kim JT, Chen N, Shakouri M, Hao X, Gao Y, Pang T, Zhang N, Jiang M, Li X, Zhao Y, Tu J, Wang C, Sun X
High throughput screening of high entropy spinel electrolytes for multivalent batteries.
Dheerasinghe MJ, Gan Y, Wang L, He Y, He Z, Xu GL, Zhao Y, Ouyang B
A cost-effective all-in-one halide material for all-solid-state batteries.
Fu J, Wang C, Wang S, Reid JW, Liang J, Luo J, Kim JT, Zhao Y, Yang X, Zhao F, Li W, Fu B, Lin X, Hu Y, Su H, Hao X, Gao Y, Zhang S, Wang Z, Liu J, Abdolvand H, Sham TK, Mo Y, Sun X
Novel Sulfide-Chloride Solid-State Electrolytes with Tunable Anion Ratio for Highly Stable Solid-State Sodium-Ion Batteries.
Dong ZL, Gan Y, Martins V, Wang X, Fu B, Jin E, Gao Y, Hu Y, Lin X, Yuan Y, Turner C, Pang X, Abdolvand H, Huang Y, Sham TK, Zhao Y
A family of dual-anion-based sodium superionic conductors for all-solid-state sodium-ion batteries.
Lin X, Zhang S, Yang M, Xiao B, Zhao Y, Luo J, Fu J, Wang C, Li X, Li W, Yang F, Duan H, Liang J, Fu B, Abdolvand H, Guo J, King G, Sun X
Electro-Chemo-Mechanically Stable and Sodiophilic Interface for Na Metal Anode in Liquid-based and Solid-State Batteries.
Jin E, Su J, Hou H, Pirayesh P, Wang Y, Yuan Y, Yan H, Popov G, Goncharova LV, Ketabi S, Dai F, Cao C, Chen L, Zhao Y
Photocurable Polymer Composite Solid Electrolytes for Solid-state Li Batteries
Principal investigators: Zhao, Yang
Keywords: Energy storage and conversion; Materials sciences
The development of solid-state membrane for high-performance solid-state Li batteries
Principal investigators: Zhao, Yang Y
Keywords: clean energy; energy storage; solid-state batteries; solid-state electrolyte
Direct Recycling of Spent Solid-state Lithium and Sodium Batteries
Principal investigators: Zhao, Yang Y
Keywords: Critical Minerals; Layer cathode materials; Li-ion Batteries; Recycling of Batteries; Solid-state Batteries
Interface engineering and mechanism understanding for Na metal anode
Principal investigators: Zhao, Yang Y
Ultrasonic Scanner for Solid-state Battey Interface Stability Study
Principal investigators: Zhao, Yang
Low Cost and High-Performance Sodium-ion Batteries for Grid Energy Storage toward Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emission
Principal investigators: Zhao, Yang Y
Keywords: artificial intelligence; atomic force microscope; atomic layer deposition; clean energy; grid energy storage; interface engineering; na-ion batteries; synchrotron x-ray techniques
Development of High-Performance and Safe Next-Generation All-Solid-State Na Batteries
Principal investigators: Zhao, Yang
Keywords: na batteries; solid-state batteries; atomic layer deposition; na-metal anode; synchrotron x-ray techniques; nanomaterials and nanotechnology; energy storage; surface and interface engineering
Development of High-Performance and Safe Next-Generation All-Solid-State Na Batteries
Principal investigators: Zhao, Yang
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Xueliang Sun and Yang Zhao: 37 shared papers
- Yu Sun and Tobin Filleter: 12 shared papers
- Gianluigi Botton and Xueliang Sun: 6 shared papers
- Tobin Filleter and Yang Zhao: 3 shared papers
- Yu Sun and Xueliang Sun: 2 shared papers
- Yu Sun and Yang Zhao: 2 shared papers
- Tobin Filleter and Xueliang Sun: 2 shared papers
- Hamidreza Abdolvand and Xueliang Sun: 2 shared papers
- Hamidreza Abdolvand and Yang Zhao: 2 shared papers
- Jian Liu and Xueliang Sun: 2 shared papers
- Xueliang Sun and Xia Li: 2 shared papers
- Xia Li and Yang Zhao: 2 shared papers
- Gianluigi Botton and Yang Zhao: 1 shared paper
- Yu Sun and Changhong Cao: 1 shared paper
- Ying Zheng and Yang Zhao: 1 shared paper
- Jian Liu and Yang Zhao: 1 shared paper
- Xia Li and Karim Zaghib: 1 shared paper
- Changhong Cao and Yang Zhao: 1 shared paper
- Yang Zhao and Karim Zaghib: 1 shared paper
- Mechanical and Materials Engineering
- Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- Mechanical & Materials Engineering
- Chemical and Materials Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Materials Science and Engineering
- School of Engineering
- Other
Co-authors at Western University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Xueliang Sun
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
37 shared papers, latest 2025
Tobin Filleter
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Xia Li
Chemical and Materials Engineering
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Hamidreza Abdolvand
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Yu Sun
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
2 shared papers, latest 2021
Karim Zaghib
Chemical and Materials Engineering (CME)
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Changhong Cao
Mechanical Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Ying Zheng
Chemical Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Jian Liu
School of Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Gianluigi Botton
Materials Science and Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2017
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