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Mei Cai is affiliated with General Motors in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of engineering. Their work predominantly focuses on electrical and electronic engineering, automotive engineering, and mechanical engineering, with additional contributions in materials chemistry and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's research interests include advancements in battery materials, advanced battery materials and technologies, advanced battery technologies research, extraction and separation processes, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and fuel cells and related materials.

Mei Cai has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Nature Energy
  • Energy & Environmental Science
  • Frontiers in Energy Research

Recent notable publications by Mei Cai include:

  • "Understanding and applying coulombic efficiency in lithium metal batteries" (2020, Nature Energy)
  • "Pressure-tailored lithium deposition and dissolution in lithium metal batteries" (2021, Nature Energy)
  • "Opportunities and Challenges of High-Energy Lithium Metal Batteries for Electric Vehicle Applications" (2020, ACS Energy Letters)
  • "Industry needs for practical lithium-metal battery designs in electric vehicles" (2024, Nature Energy)
  • "Multi-functional anodes boost the transient power and durability of proton exchange membrane fuel cells" (2020, Nature Communications)

Frequent collaborators include Meinan He, Fang Dai, Thomas A. Yersak, Ying Shirley Meng, and Khalil Amine. Their collaborative efforts have contributed to several high-impact studies in battery technology and related fields.

Best Publications

  • Quantifying inactive lithium in lithium metal batteries

    Chengcheng Fang;Jinxing Li;Minghao Zhang;Yihui Zhang

  • Nitrogen-doped activated carbon for a high energy hybrid supercapacitor

    Bing Li;Fang Dai;Qiangfeng Xiao;Li Yang

  • Silicon-Based Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries: From Fundamentals to Practical Applications.

    Kun Feng;Matthew Li;Wenwen Liu;Ali Ghorbani Kashkooli

  • Understanding and applying coulombic efficiency in lithium metal batteries

    Jie Xiao;Jie Xiao;Qiuyan Li;Yujing Bi;Mei Cai

  • Heat-treated Fe/N/C catalysts for O2 electroreduction: are active sites hosted in micropores?

    Frédéric Jaouen;Michel Lefèvre;Jean-Pol Dodelet;Mei Cai

  • Ultrathin MoS2/Nitrogen‐Doped Graphene Nanosheets with Highly Reversible Lithium Storage

    Kun Chang;Dongsheng Geng;Xifei Li;Jinli Yang

  • A Highly Durable Platinum Nanocatalyst for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Multiarmed Starlike Nanowire Single Crystal

    Shuhui Sun;Gaixia Zhang;Dongsheng Geng;Yougui Chen

  • Tin Oxide with Controlled Morphology and Crystallinity by Atomic Layer Deposition onto Graphene Nanosheets for Enhanced Lithium Storage

    Xifei Li;Xiangbo Meng;Jian Liu;Dongsheng Geng

  • Atomic layer deposition of solid-state electrolyte coated cathode materials with superior high-voltage cycling behavior for lithium ion battery application

    Xifei Li;Jian Liu;Mohammad Norouzi Banis;Andrew Lushington

  • Pressure-tailored lithium deposition and dissolution in lithium metal batteries

    Chengcheng Fang;Chengcheng Fang;Bingyu Lu;Gorakh Pawar;Minghao Zhang

  • Polydopamine-Coated, Nitrogen-Doped, Hollow Carbon–Sulfur Double-Layered Core–Shell Structure for Improving Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

    Weidong Zhou;Xingcheng Xiao;Mei Cai;Li Yang

  • Layer by layer assembly of sandwiched graphene/SnO2 nanorod/carbon nanostructures with ultrahigh lithium ion storage properties

    Dongniu Wang;Jinli Yang;Xifei Li;Dongsheng Geng

  • Opportunities and challenges of high energy lithium metal batteries for electrical vehicle applications

    Shuru Chen;Fang Dai;Mei Cai

  • Creating Lithium-Ion Electrolytes with Biomimetic Ionic Channels in Metal–Organic Frameworks

    Li Shen;Hao Bin Wu;Hao Bin Wu;Fang Liu;Jonathan L. Brosmer

  • Inward lithium-ion breathing of hierarchically porous silicon anodes.

    Qiangfeng Xiao;Meng Gu;Hui Yang;Bing Li

  • Activated Carbon from Biomass Transfer for High‐Energy Density Lithium‐Ion Supercapacitors

    Bing Li;Fang Dai;Qiangfeng Xiao;Li Yang

  • A Novel Organic "Polyurea" Thin Film for Ultralong-Life Lithium-Metal Anodes via Molecular-Layer Deposition.

    Yipeng Sun;Yang Zhao;Jiwei Wang;Jianneng Liang

  • Significant impact on cathode performance of lithium-ion batteries by precisely controlled metal oxide nanocoatings via atomic layer deposition

    Xifei Li;Jian Liu;Xiangbo Meng;Yongji Tang

  • High-Performance Supercapacitors Based on Hierarchically Porous Graphite Particles

    Zheng Chen;Jing Wen;Chunzhu Yan;Lynn Rice

  • Highly stable Li1.2Mn0.54Co0.13Ni0.13O2 enabled by novel atomic layer deposited AlPO4 coating

    Biwei Xiao;Biwei Xiao;Biqiong Wang;Jian Liu;Karthikeyan Kaliyappan

  • Investigation of thermal and electrochemical degradation of fuel cell catalysts

    Mei Cai;Martin S. Ruthkosky;Belabbes Merzougui;Swathy Swathirajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruying Li
Ruying Li University of Western Ontario
Xueliang Sun
Xueliang Sun University of Western Ontario
Mohammad Norouzi Banis
Mohammad Norouzi Banis General Motors (United States)
Xifei Li
Xifei Li Xi'an University of Technology
Yong Zhang
Yong Zhang University of Western Ontario
Dongsheng Geng
Dongsheng Geng University of Science and Technology Beijing
Yunfeng Lu
Yunfeng Lu University of California, Los Angeles
Mark W. Verbrugge
Mark W. Verbrugge General Motors (United States)
Xingcheng Xiao
Xingcheng Xiao General Motors (United States)
Tsun-Kong Sham
Tsun-Kong Sham University of Western Ontario

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