Dr Xuekun Lu
BSc, PhD, FHEA,
Research Group News
August 2024 | ||
 Green Energy Research and Technologies at Harwell Open Day: Queen Mary Researchers Lead the Charge23 August 2024In the summer of 2024, the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, one of the UK’s leading research hubs, hosted its eagerly anticipated Harwell Open Day. Among the many scientific demonstrations and exhibits, a team of researchers led by Dr Xuekun Lu (senior lecturer in Green Energy) and his PhD … [more] | ||
May 2024 | ||
 Study into electrical vehicle batteries makes Nature Comms top 2531 May 2024Dr Xuekun Lu’s paper, ‘Multiscale dynamics of charging and plating in graphite electrodes coupling operando microscopy and phase-field modelling’ has been included in Nature Communications’s top 25 Materials Science papers for 2023. The study, led by Dr Lu, found a way to prevent lithium plating in … [more] | ||
August 2023 | ||
 Study that promises faster charging of electric vehicles published in Nature Communications31 August 2023A new study led by Dr Xuekun Lu has found a way to prevent lithium plating in electric vehicle batteries, which could lead to faster charging and safer electric cars. The paper has been published in Nature Communications. Lithium plating is a phenomenon that can occur in lithium ion batteries … [more] | ||
January 2023 | ||
 First 'National Battery Day' celebration @QMUL!27 January 2023We are celebrating the National Battery Day on Friday 17th February and we want to harness this opportunity to promote battery careers as widely as possible with our amazing QMUL undergraduate students! What? Short 10 min talks by some of QMUL's leading scientists in battery science. Q&A session … [more] | ||