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Ritesh Kumar#, Ke-Hsin Wang#, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Using electrolyte solvent embeddings to guide battery electrolyte discovery. #=co-first authors. Under Review. ChemRxiv.
Jaemin Kim, Ke-Hsin Wang, Ritesh Kumar, Peiyuan Ma, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Generative solvent and electrolyte formulation discovery. Under Review.
Nicholas Boynton, Leah Hess, Soumajit Dutta, Camille Kuwana, Priyadarshini Mirmira, Gabrielle Solymosy, Alexander Filatov, Trevor Hagan, Sophia Bartridge, Aiden Rambo, Jenna Dibeh, Stephanie Vivod, Asem Abdulahad, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*, Andrew Ferguson*, Stuart Rowan*, and Shrayesh Patel*. Influence of thermal processing and doping concentration on phase behaviour of a lithium-transporting organic ionic plastic crystal. Under Review. ChemRxiv
Minh Canh Vu, Hrishikesh S. Srinivasan, Priyadarshini Mirmira, Emily S. Doyle, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. A transition-metal-and-solvent-free dual-graphite battery for long duration storage. ChemRxiv. Under Revision.
Bidushi Sarkar, Rameshwar L. Kumawat, Peiyuan Ma, Ke-Hsin Wang, Matin Mohebi, George C. Schatz, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Lithium metal-mediated electrochemical degradation of per- and poly- fluoroalkylsubstances (PFAS). ChemRxiv. Nature Chemistry, 2025 (Accepted)
Reginaldo J. Gomes, Jianping Li, Jiayi Xu, Bidushi Sarkar, Matin Mohebi, Joshua Gabriel, Tony Mathew, Ishaan Roy, Noah Paulson, Cong Liu, Chukwunwike O. Iloeje, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Integrating CO2 Capture and Electrochemical Conversion Using Industrially Relevant Streams. Under Revision.
Published
Peiyuan Ma#, Ritesh Kumar#, Ke-Hsin Wang, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Active learning accelerates electrolyte solvent screening for anode-free lithium metal batteries. #=co-first authors. Nature Communications. 2025. 16, 8396. Link | PDF
Ke-Hsin Wang, Peiyuan Ma, Jaemin Kim, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Mono-fluorinated Cyclic Ethers Enable Fast Ion Transport in Low-Temperature Lithium Metal Batteries. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2025. 17, 35606–35618 Link | PDF
Hannah Fejzić, Ritesh Kumar, Reginaldo J. Gomes, Lilin He, Theodore J. Houser, Jaemin Kim, Matin Mohebi, Nora Molten, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Water clustering modulates activity and enables hydrogenated product formation during carbon monoxide electroreduction in aprotic media. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025. 147, 18445-18459 Link | PDF | ChemRxiv.
Yaguang Zhu, Austin J Booth, Jamila G Eatman, Min A Kim, Yining Liu, Bidushi Sarkar, Bratin Sengupta, Xiaolin Yue, Chibueze V Amanchukwu, Seth B Darling, Jeffrey W Elam, Paul Fenter, Chong Liu, Kelsey B Hatzell. From Molecules to Modules: Advanced Characterization of Membrane Systems. Advanced Materials. 2025. Link | PDF
Ritesh Kumar, Minh Canh Vu, Peiyuan Ma, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. ElectrolytomicsTM: A unified big data approach for electrolyte design and discovery. Chem. Mater. 2025. 37, 2720-2734 Link | PDF | ChemRxiv.
Priyadarshini Mirmira, Emily S. Doyle, Peiyuan Ma, Alex Garcia, Zoe Umlauf, Minh Canh Vu, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. In situ inorganic and polymer synthesis for conformal hybrid sulfide-type solid state electrolytes. Chem. Mater. 2025. 37, 3, 1069-1082 Link | PDF
Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. A dash of salt. Nat. Energy 2025. Link | PDF
Michael Counihan, Jungkuk Lee, Priyadarshini Mirmira, Pallab Barai, Meghan Burns, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Venkat Srinivasan, Yuepeng Zhang, and Sanja Tepavcevic. Improved Interfacial Li-ion Transport with Surface Modification of LLZO in Composite Polymer Electrolytes. Energy Storage Materials. 2025. Link | PDF
Peiyuan Ma, Cindy Xue, Ke-Hsin Wang, Priyadarshini Mirmira, Minh Canh Vu, Oscar Rivera, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Structural molecular optimization of fluorinated ether electrolyte for all temperature fast charging lithium-ion battery. ACS Energy Lett. 2024. 9, 6144-6152. Link | PDF
Peiyuan Ma, Uyen Le, Ke-Hsin Wang, Minh Canh Vu, Priyadarshini Mirmira, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Probing the influence of steric hindrance in nonfluorinated ether electrolytes for lithium metal batteries. J. Electrochem. Soc. 2024. 171, 120536. Link | PDF
Reginaldo J. Gomes, Ritesh Kumar, Hannah Fejzić, Bidushi Sarkar, Ishaan Roy, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Modulating water hydrogen bonding within a non-aqueous environment controls its reactivity in electrochemical transformations. Nature Catalysis. 2024. 7, 689-701 Link | PDF
Emily S. Doyle, Priyadarshini Mirmira, Peiyuan Ma, Minh Canh Vu, Trinity Hixson-Wells, Ritesh Kumar, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Phase morphology dependence of ionic conductivity and oxidative stability in fluorinated ether solid state electrolytes. Chem. Mater. 2024. Link| PDF
Priyadarshini Mirmira#, Claire Fuschi#, Zoe Umlauf, Peiyuan Ma, Emily S. Doyle, Minh Canh Vu, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Impact of processing methodology on the performance of hybrid sulfide-polymer solid state electrolytes for lithium metal batteries. #=co-first authors. J. Electrochem. Soc. 2024. 171, 030508. Link | PDF
Peiyuan Ma, Ritesh Kumar, Minh Canh Vu, Ke-Hsin Wang, Priyadarshini Mirmira, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Fluorination promotes lithium salt dissolution in borate esters for lithium metal batteries. J. Mater. Chem. A. 2024. 12, 2479-2490 Link | PDF
Minh Canh Vu, Priyadarshini Mirmira, Reginaldo J. Gomes, Peiyuan Ma, Emily S. Doyle, Hrishikesh S. Srinivasan, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Low melting alkali-based molten salt electrolytes for solvent-free lithium metal batteries. Matter. 2023. 6, 12, 4357-4375. Link | PDF
Snehashis Choudhury#, Zhuojun Huang#, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu#, Paul E. Rudnicki#, Yuelang Chen, David Thomas Boyle, Jian Qin, Yi Cui, and Zhenan Bao. Ion Conducting Polymer Interfaces for Lithium Metal Anodes: Impact on the Electrodeposition Kinetics. Adv. Energy Mater. 2023. 13, 35, 2301899. #=co-first authors. Link | PDF
Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*#, Anna B Gunnarsdottir#, Snehashis Choudhury, Tamsin L Newlove, Pieter M Magusin, Zhenan Bao*, and Clare P. Grey*. Understanding Lithium-ion Dynamics in Single-ion and Salt-in-polymer Perfluoropolyethers and Polyethyleneglycol Electrolytes using Solid-state NMR. Macromolecules. 2023. 56, 10, 3650-3659. #=co-first authors Link | PDF
Benjamin C. Kash#, Reginaldo J. Gomes#, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Mitigating Electrode Inactivation During CO2 Electrocatalysis in Aprotic Solvents with Alkali Cations. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023. 14, 4, 920-926. #=co-first authors Link| PDF. ChemRxiv.
Peiyuan Ma, Priyadarshini Mirmira, Peter J. Eng, Seoung-Bum Son, Ira D. Bloom, Alexander S. Filatov, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Co-intercalation-free Ether Electrolytes for Graphitic Anodes in Lithium-ion Batteries. Energy Environ. Sci. 2022. 15, 4823-4835. Link| PDF
Yuxi Chen, Elizabeth M.Y. Lee, Phwey S. Gil, Peiyuan Ma, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*, and Juan J. de Pablo*. Molecular Characterization of Fluoroether Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Batteries. Mol. Syst. Des. and Eng. 2022. 2023. 8, 195-206. Link| Chemxriv.
Reginaldo J. Gomes, Chris Birch , Morgan M. Cencer, Chenyang Li, Seoung-Bum Son, Ira D. Bloom, Rajeev S. Assary, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Probing electrolyte influence on CO2 reduction in aprotic solvents. J. Phys. Chem. C. 2022, 126, 13595-13606. Link | PDF. Chemxriv
Priyadarshini Mirmira, Claire Fuschi, Walker Gillett, Peiyuan Ma, Jin Zheng, Zachary D. Hood, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Nonconductive polymers enable higher ionic conductivities and suppress reactivity in hybrid sulfide-polymer solid state electrolytes. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2022, 5, 8900-8912. Link | PDF
Morgan Cencer, Chenyang Li, Garvit Agarwal, Reginaldo J. Gomes, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, and Rajeev S. Assary. Interactions of CO2 anion radicals with electrolyte environments from first-principles simulations. ACS Omega. 2022, 7, 18131 – 18138. Link | PDF
Peiyuan Ma, Priyadarshini Mirmira, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Effect of building block connectivity and ion solvation on electrochemical stability and ionic conductivity in novel fluoroether electrolytes. ACS Central Science. 2021, 7,7, 1232-1244 Link | PDF
Priyadarshini Mirmira#, Jin Zheng#, Peiyuan Ma, and Chibueze V. Amanchukwu*. Importance of multimodal characterization and influence of residual Li2S impurity in amorphous Li3PS4 inorganic electrolytes. J. Mater. Chem. A 2021, 9, 19637-19648. #=co-first authors Link | PDF
**This work was part of the “2021 Emerging Investigators” Issue of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A. See Link
Anna B. Gunnarsdóttir, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Svetlana Menkin, and Clare P. Grey. “Noninvasive In Situ NMR Study of “Dead Lithium” Formation and Lithium Corrosion in Full-Cell Lithium Metal Batteries.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 49, 20814-20827. Link | PDF
Zhiao Yu, Hansen Wang, Xian Kong, William Huang, Yuchi Tsao, David G. Mackanic, Kecheng Wang, Xinchang Wang, Wenxiao Huang, Snehashis Choudhury, Yu Zheng, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Samantha T. Hung, Yuting Ma, Eder G. Lomeli, Jian Qin, Yi Cui, and Zhenan Bao. “Molecular design for electrolyte solvents enabling energy-dense and long-cycling lithium metal batteries.” Nat. Energy. 2020, 5, 526-533. Link | PDF
Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Zhiao Yu, Xian Kong, Jian Qin, Yi Cui, and Zhenan Bao. “A new class of ionically conducting fluorinated ether electrolytes with high electrochemical stability.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 16, 7393-7403. Link | PDF
Chibueze V. Amanchukwu. “The Electrolyte Frontier: A Manifesto.” Joule, 2020, 4, 2, 281-285. Link | PDF
Zhiao Yu, David G. Mackanic, Wesley Michaels, Minah Lee, Allen Pei, Dawei Feng, Qiuhong Zhang, Yuchi Tsao, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Xuzhou Yan, Hansen Wang, Shucheng Chen, Kai Liu, Jiheong Kang, Jian Qin, Yi Cui, and Zhenan Bao. “A Dynamic, Electrolyte-Blocking, and Single-Ion-Conductive Network for Stable Lithium-Metal Anodes.” Joule. 2019, 3, 11, 2761-2776 Link | PDF
Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Xian Kong, Jian Qin, Yi Cui, and Zhenan Bao. “Nonpolar alkanes modify lithium ion solvation for improved lithium deposition and stripping.” Adv. Energy Mater. 2019, 19, 1902116. Link | PDF
Mingjun Huang, Shuting Feng, Wenxu Zhang, Livia Giordano, Mao Chen, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Robinson Anandakathir, Yang Shao-Horn, and Jeremiah A. Johnson. “Fluorinated Aryl Sulfonimide Tagged (FAST) salts: modular synthesis and structure-property relationships for battery applications.” Energy Environ. Sci., 2018, 11, 1326. Link | PDF
Shuting Feng, Mao Chen, Livia Giordano, Mingjun Huang, Wenxu Zhang, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Robinson Anandakathir, Yang Shao-Horn, and Jeremiah A. Johnson. “Mapping a Stable Solvent Structure Landscape for Li-Air Battery Organic Electrolytes.” J. Mater. Chem. A., 2017, 5, 23987. Link | PDF
Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Hao-Hsun Chang, and Paula T. Hammond. “Influence of Ammonium Salts on Discharge and Charge of Li–O2 Batteries.” J. Phys. Chem. C. 2017, 121, 17671. Link | PDF
Michal Tulodziecki, Graham M. Leverick, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Yu Katayama, David G. Kwabi, Fanny Barde, Paula T. Hammond, and Yang Shao-Horn. “The Role of Iodide on the Formation of Lithium Hydroxide in Lithium-Oxygen Batteries.” Energy Environ. Sci. 2017, 10, 1828. Link | PDF
Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Hao-Hsun Chang, Magali Gauthier, Shuting Feng, Thomas P. Batcho, and Paula T. Hammond. “One electron mechanism in a gel polymer electrolyte Li-O2 battery.” Chem. Mater. 2016, 28, 7167. Link | PDF
Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Magali Gauthier, Thomas P. Batcho, Chanez Symister, Yang Shao-Horn, Julio D’Arcy, and Paula T. Hammond. “Evaluation and stability of PEDOT electroactive polymer electrodes for Li-O2 batteries.” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2016, 7, 3770. Link | PDF
Sayed Youssef Sayed, Koffi P.C. Yao, David G. Kwabi, Thomas P. Batcho, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Shuting Feng, Carl V. Thompson, and Yang Shao-Horn. “Revealing Instability and Irreversibility in Nonaqueous Sodium-O2 Battery Chemistry.” Chem. Comm. 2016, 52, 9691. Link | PDF
Jonathon R. Harding, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Paula T. Hammond, and Yang Shao-Horn. “Instability of Polyethylene Oxide upon oxidation in Lithium-Air Batteries.” J. Phys. Chem. C. 2015, 119, 6947. Link | PDF
Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Jonathon R. Harding, Yang Shao-Horn, and Paula T. Hammond. “Understanding the chemical stability of polymers for lithium-air batteries.” Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 550. Link | PDF
David G. Kwabi, Thomas P. Batcho, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Nagore Ortiz-Victoriano, Paula T. Hammond, Carl V. Thompson, and Yang Shao-Horn. “Chemical Instability of Dimethyl Sulfoxide in Lithium-Air Batteries.” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 2850. Link | PDF
Koffi P.C. Yao, Yi-Chun Lu, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, David G. Kwabi, Marcel Risch, Jigang Zhou, Alexis Grimaud, Paula T. Hammond, Fanny Barde, and Yang Shao-Horn. “The influence of transition metal oxides on the kinetics of Li2O2 oxidation in Li-O2 batteries: high activity of chromium oxides.” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 2297. Link | PDF