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Chaojiang Niu is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering. Contributions also span automotive engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, materials chemistry, and renewable energy, sustainability and the environment.

The main topics of Niu's work include advanced battery materials and technologies, advancements in battery materials, advanced battery technologies research, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and extraction and separation processes.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Liqiang Mai, Wu Xu, Xuanpeng Wang, Ji-Guang Zhang, and Jie Xiao.

Notable publications by Chaojiang Niu cover several key areas in energy materials and battery technologies:

  • Balancing interfacial reactions to achieve long cycle life in high-energy lithium metal batteries, 2021, Nature Energy

In addition, the researcher's work is published frequently in prominent scientific journals, with multiple publications in the following venues:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Energy & Environmental Science
  • Nano Energy
  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Best Publications

  • Enabling High-Voltage Lithium-Metal Batteries under Practical Conditions

    Xiaodi Ren;Lianfeng Zou;Xia Cao;Mark H. Engelhard

  • General Oriented Formation of Carbon Nanotubes from Metal–Organic Frameworks

    Jiashen Meng;Chaojiang Niu;Linhan Xu;Jiantao Li

  • Monolithic solid-electrolyte interphases formed in fluorinated orthoformate-based electrolytes minimize Li depletion and pulverization

    Xia Cao;Xiaodi Ren;Lianfeng Zou;Mark H. Engelhard

  • High-energy lithium metal pouch cells with limited anode swelling and long stable cycles

    Chaojiang Niu;Hongkyung Lee;Shuru Chen;Qiuyan Li

  • High-Efficiency Lithium Metal Batteries with Fire-Retardant Electrolytes

    Shuru Chen;Jianming Zheng;Lu Yu;Xiaodi Ren

  • Self-smoothing anode for achieving high-energy lithium metal batteries under realistic conditions

    Chaojiang Niu;Huilin Pan;Wu Xu;Jie Xiao

  • Balancing interfacial reactions to achieve long cycle life in high-energy lithium metal batteries

    Chaojiang Niu;Dianying Liu;Joshua A. Lochala;Cassidy S. Anderson

  • Critical Parameters for Evaluating Coin Cells and Pouch Cells of Rechargeable Li-Metal Batteries

    Shuru Chen;Chaojiang Niu;Hongkyung Lee;Qiuyan Li

  • Advances in metal-organic framework coatings: versatile synthesis and broad applications.

    Jiashen Meng;Xiong Liu;Chaojiang Niu;Quan Pang

  • High-Concentration Ether Electrolytes for Stable High-Voltage Lithium Metal Batteries

    Xiaodi Ren;Lianfeng Zou;Shuhong Jiao;Shuhong Jiao;Donghai Mei

  • Vanadium-Based Nanomaterials: A Promising Family for Emerging Metal-Ion Batteries

    Xiaoming Xu;Fangyu Xiong;Jiashen Meng;Jiashen Meng;Xuanpeng Wang

  • General synthesis of complex nanotubes by gradient electrospinning and controlled pyrolysis

    Chaojiang Niu;Jiashen Meng;Xuanpeng Wang;Chunhua Han

  • Earth Abundant Fe/Mn-Based Layered Oxide Interconnected Nanowires for Advanced K-Ion Full Batteries.

    Xuanpeng Wang;Xiaoming Xu;Chaojiang Niu;Jiashen Meng

  • Manganese Oxide/Carbon Yolk–Shell Nanorod Anodes for High Capacity Lithium Batteries

    Zhengyang Cai;Lin Xu;Lin Xu;Mengyu Yan;Chunhua Han

  • SnO2 Quantum Dots@Graphene Oxide as a High-Rate and Long-Life Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Kangning Zhao;Lei Zhang;Rui Xia;Yifan Dong

  • Role of inner solvation sheath within salt–solvent complexes in tailoring electrode/electrolyte interphases for lithium metal batteries

    Xiaodi Ren;Peiyuan Gao;Lianfeng Zou;Shuhong Jiao

  • Reconstruction-Determined Alkaline Water Electrolysis at Industrial Temperatures.

    Xiong Liu;Ruiting Guo;Kun Ni;Fanjie Xia

  • Advances in Structure and Property Optimizations of Battery Electrode Materials

    Jiashen Meng;Haichang Guo;Chaojiang Niu;Yunlong Zhao

  • Effects of fluorinated solvents on electrolyte solvation structures and electrode/electrolyte interphases for lithium metal batteries.

    Xia Cao;Peiyuan Gao;Xiaodi Ren;Lianfeng Zou

  • VO2 nanowires assembled into hollow microspheres for high-rate and long-life lithium batteries.

    Chaojiang Niu;Jiashen Meng;Chunhua Han;Kangning Zhao

  • Self-sacrificed synthesis of three-dimensional Na3V2(PO4)3 nanofiber network for high-rate sodium–ion full batteries

    Wenhao Ren;Zhiping Zheng;Chang Xu;Chaojiang Niu

Frequent Co-Authors

Liqiang Mai
Liqiang Mai Wuhan University of Technology
Jiashen Meng
Jiashen Meng Wuhan University of Technology
Xuanpeng Wang
Xuanpeng Wang Wuhan University of Technology
Jie Xiao
Jie Xiao Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jun Liu
Jun Liu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mengyu Yan
Mengyu Yan University of Washington
Kangning Zhao
Kangning Zhao Great Bay University
Wu Xu
Wu Xu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ji-Guang Zhang
Ji-Guang Zhang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mark H. Engelhard
Mark H. Engelhard Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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