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Wesley A. Henderson is affiliated with the United States Army Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the study of chemical engineering and engineering disciplines, with significant contributions to several subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, catalysis, filtration and separation, materials chemistry, and fluid flow and transfer processes.

The main topics of Henderson's work revolve around ionic liquids properties and applications, advanced battery materials and technologies, chemical and physical properties in aqueous solutions, advancements in battery materials, solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography, and thermodynamic properties of mixtures.

Henderson has published extensively in notable scientific venues, with frequent contributions to the Journal of The Electrochemical Society and The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Their published papers include:

  • Electrolyte Solvation and Ionic Association: VIII. Reassessing Raman Spectroscopic Studies of Ion Coordination for LiTFSI (2022) in Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • Electrolyte Solvation and Ionic Association. VII. Correlating Raman Spectroscopic Data with Solvate Species (2020) in Journal of The Electrochemical Society

While the above papers are authored directly by Henderson, other works closely related in topic and published in similar high-impact journals during the same period include:

  • Solvate Structures and Computational/Spectroscopic Characterization of LiClO4 Electrolytes (2022) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Electrolyte Solvation and Ionic Association: Part IX. Structures and Raman Spectroscopic Characterization of LiFSI Solvates (2022) in Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • Solvate Structures and Computational/Spectroscopic Characterization of LiCF3SO3 Electrolytes (2022) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Henderson frequently collaborates with a range of researchers, including Oleg Borodin, Daniel M. Seo, Karl T. Mueller, Sang-Don Han, and Nigel D. Browning. These partnerships have resulted in multiple joint publications contributing to the understanding of electrolyte solvation and ion coordination phenomena.

Best Publications

  • High rate and stable cycling of lithium metal anode

    Jiangfeng Qian;Wesley A. Henderson;Wu Xu;Priyanka Bhattacharya

  • Failure Mechanism for Fast‐Charged Lithium Metal Batteries with Liquid Electrolytes

    Dongping Lu;Yuyan Shao;Terence J. Lozano;Wendy D. Bennett

  • Anode-Free Rechargeable Lithium Metal Batteries

    Jiangfeng Qian;Brian D. Adams;Jianming Zheng;Wu Xu

  • Ionic liquids to the rescue? Overcoming the ionic conductivity limitations of polymer electrolytes

    Joon-Ho Shin;Wesley A. Henderson;Stefano Passerini

  • Ionic liquids behave as dilute electrolyte solutions

    Matthew A. Gebbie;Markus Valtiner;Xavier Banquy;Eric T. Fox

  • PEO-Based Polymer Electrolytes with Ionic Liquids and Their Use in Lithium Metal-Polymer Electrolyte Batteries

    Joon-Ho Shin;Wesley A. Henderson;Stefano Passerini

  • Concentrated electrolytes: decrypting electrolyte properties and reassessing Al corrosion mechanisms

    Dennis W. McOwen;Daniel M. Seo;Oleg Borodin;Jenel Vatamanu

  • Hard carbon nanoparticles as high-capacity, high-stability anodic materials for Na-ion batteries

    Lifen Xiao;Lifen Xiao;Yuliang Cao;Yuliang Cao;Wesley A. Henderson;Maria L. Sushko

  • Li+ Cation Environment, Transport, and Mechanical Properties of the LiTFSI Doped N-Methyl-N-alkylpyrrolidinium+TFSI- Ionic Liquids

    Oleg Borodin;Grant D Smith;Wesley Henderson

  • Phase Behavior of Ionic Liquid−LiX Mixtures: Pyrrolidinium Cations and TFSI- Anions

    Wesley A. Henderson;Stefano Passerini

  • Radical Compatibility with Nonaqueous Electrolytes and Its Impact on an All‐Organic Redox Flow Battery

    Xiaoliang Wei;Wu Xu;Jinhua Huang;Lu Zhang

  • Observation and Quantification of Nanoscale Processes in Lithium Batteries by Operando Electrochemical (S)TEM

    B. L. Mehdi;J. Qian;E. Nasybulin;C. Park

  • Dendrite-Free Li Deposition Using Trace-Amounts of Water as an Electrolyte Additive

    Jiangfeng Qian;Wu Xu;Priyanka Bhattacharya;Mark H. Engelhard

  • Electrolyte Solvation and Ionic Association II. Acetonitrile-Lithium Salt Mixtures: Highly Dissociated Salts

    Daniel M. Seo;Oleg Borodin;Sang-Don Han;Paul D. Boyle

  • Glyme−Lithium Salt Phase Behavior

    Wesley A. Henderson

  • Enabling room temperature sodium metal batteries

    Ruiguo Cao;Kuber Mishra;Kuber Mishra;Xiaolin Li;Jiangfeng Qian

  • Lignin extraction from biomass with protic ionic liquids

    Ezinne C. Achinivu;Reagan M. Howard;Guoqing Li;Hanna Gracz

  • Cycling stability of a hybrid activated carbon//poly(3-methylthiophene) supercapacitor with N-butyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide ionic liquid as electrolyte

    Andrea Balducci;Wesley A. Henderson;Marina Mastragostino;Stefano Passerini

  • Competitive lithium solvation of linear and cyclic carbonates from quantum chemistry

    Oleg Borodin;Marco Olguin;P. Ganesh;Paul R. C. Kent

  • Electro‐osmotic Drag of Water in Ionomeric Membranes New Measurements Employing a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell

    Xiaoming Ren;Wesley Henderson;Shimshon Gottesfeld

  • Solid-state Li/LiFePO4 polymer electrolyte batteries incorporating an ionic liquid cycled at 40 °C

    Joon-Ho Shin;Wesley A. Henderson;Silvera Scaccia;Pier Paolo Prosini

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano Passerini
Stefano Passerini Nanjing Normal University
Oleg Borodin
Oleg Borodin United States Army Research Laboratory
Karl T. Mueller
Karl T. Mueller Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Paul C. Trulove
Paul C. Trulove United States Naval Academy
Jun Liu
Jun Liu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Wu Xu
Wu Xu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Victor G. Young
Victor G. Young University of Minnesota
Jiangfeng Qian
Jiangfeng Qian Wuhan University
Jie Xiao
Jie Xiao Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Yuyan Shao
Yuyan Shao Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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