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Kejie Zhao is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their primary research areas encompass Engineering and Materials Science, with a focused contribution in subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Automotive Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics that include:

  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Kejie Zhao has published extensively in numerous venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Nature Communications
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Energy Materials

Significant recent papers authored by Zhao illustrate areas of interest in battery technology and material science:

  • Free-standing ultrathin lithium metal-graphene oxide host foils with controllable thickness for lithium batteries, 2021, Nature Energy
  • Machine-learning-revealed statistics of the particle-carbon/binder detachment in lithium-ion battery cathodes, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Charge distribution guided by grain crystallographic orientations in polycrystalline battery materials, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Dynamics of particle network in composite battery cathodes, 2022, Science
  • Chemomechanics of Rechargeable Batteries: Status, Theories, and Perspectives, 2022, Chemical Reviews

Collaborations form a significant part of Zhao's research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Xiaokang Wang
  • Feng Lin
  • Yijin Liu
  • Zitang Wei
  • Letian Dou

Best Publications

  • Fracture of electrodes in lithium-ion batteries caused by fast charging

    Kejie Zhao;Matt Pharr;Joost J. Vlassak;Zhigang Suo

  • Free-standing ultrathin lithium metal-graphene oxide host foils with controllable thickness for lithium batteries

    Hao Chen;Yufei Yang;David T. Boyle;You Kyeong Jeong

  • Lithium-Assisted Plastic Deformation of Silicon Electrodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries: A First-Principles Theoretical Study

    Kejie Zhao;Wei L. Wang;John Gregoire;Matt Pharr

  • Large Plastic Deformation in High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries Caused by Charge and Discharge

    Kejie Zhao;Matt Pharr;Shengqiang Cai;Joost J. Vlassak

  • Concurrent Reaction and Plasticity during Initial Lithiation of Crystalline Silicon in Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Kejie Zhao;Matt Pharr;Qiang Wan;Qiang Wan;Wei L. Wang

  • Oxygen Release Induced Chemomechanical Breakdown of Layered Cathode Materials

    Linqin Mu;Ruoqian Lin;Rong Xu;Lili Han

  • High‐Voltage Charging‐Induced Strain, Heterogeneity, and Micro‐Cracks in Secondary Particles of a Nickel‐Rich Layered Cathode Material

    Yuwei Mao;Yuwei Mao;Xuelong Wang;Sihao Xia;Kai Zhang;Kai Zhang

  • Heterogeneous damage in Li-ion batteries: Experimental analysis and theoretical modeling

    Rong Xu;Yang Yang;Fei Yin;Pengfei Liu

  • Kinetics of initial lithiation of crystalline silicon electrodes of lithium-ion batteries.

    Matt Pharr;Kejie Zhao;Xinwei Wang;Zhigang Suo

  • Chemomechanics of Rechargeable Batteries: Status, Theories, and Perspectives.

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  • Dynamics of particle network in composite battery cathodes

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  • Chemomechanical interplay of layered cathode materials undergoing fast charging in lithium batteries

    Sihao Xia;Sihao Xia;Linqin Mu;Zhengrui Xu;Junyang Wang

  • Mechanical and Structural Degradation of LiNixMnyCozO2 Cathode in Li-Ion Batteries: An Experimental Study

    Rong Xu;Hong Sun;Luize Scalco de Vasconcelos;Kejie Zhao

  • Machine-learning-revealed statistics of the particle-carbon/binder detachment in lithium-ion battery cathodes

    Zhisen Jiang;Jizhou Li;Yang Yang;Yang Yang;Linqin Mu

  • Quantification of Heterogeneous Degradation in Li-Ion Batteries

    Yang Yang;Rong Xu;Kai Zhang;Kai Zhang;Sang‐Jun Lee

  • Electronic Structure and Comparative Properties of LiNixMnyCozO2 Cathode Materials

    Hong Sun;Kejie Zhao

  • An electrochemically stable homogeneous glassy electrolyte formed at room temperature for all-solid-state sodium batteries

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  • Electrochemomechanical degradation of high-capacity battery electrode materials

    Sulin Zhang;Kejie Zhao;Ting Zhu;Ju Li

  • Diffusion of Lithium in Bulk Amorphous Silicon: A Theoretical Study

    Georgios A. Tritsaris;Kejie Zhao;Onyekwelu U. Okeke;Efthimios Kaxiras

  • Inelastic hosts as electrodes for high-capacity lithium-ion batteries

    Kejie Zhao;Matt Pharr;Joost J. Vlassak;Zhigang Suo

  • Reactive Flow in Silicon Electrodes Assisted by the Insertion of Lithium

    Kejie Zhao;Georgios A. Tritsaris;Matt Pharr;Wei L. Wang

  • Fracture and debonding in lithium-ion batteries with electrodes of hollow core–shell nanostructures

    Kejie Zhao;Matt Pharr;Lauren Hartle;Joost J. Vlassak

  • Electrochemically driven mechanical energy harvesting.

    Sangtae Kim;Soon Ju Choi;Kejie Zhao;Hui Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Rong Xu
Rong Xu Case Western Reserve University
Feng Lin
Feng Lin Virginia Tech
Zhigang Suo
Zhigang Suo Harvard University
Yijin Liu
Yijin Liu The University of Texas at Austin
Joost J. Vlassak
Joost J. Vlassak Harvard University
Gary J. Cheng
Gary J. Cheng Purdue University West Lafayette
Qingyou Han
Qingyou Han Purdue University West Lafayette
Dennis Nordlund
Dennis Nordlund SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Jieshan Qiu
Jieshan Qiu Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Peter Cloetens
Peter Cloetens European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

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