2025 Publication Highlights
Dr. Julia Hsu
“Fabricating Silver Nanowire–IZO Composite Transparent Conducting Electrodes at Roll-to-Roll Speed for Perovskite Solar Cells” was published in Nanomanufacturing. The study is by Justin C. Bonner, Bishal Bhandari, Garrett J. Vander Stouw, Geethanjali Bingi, Kurt A. Schroder, Julia E. Huddy, William J. Scheideler, Julia W. P. Hsu.
With this study, Dr. Hsu’s team addressed the challenges of producing flexible transparent conducting electrodes at large scale by using a high-speed roll-to-roll compatible method that combines gravure printing and photonic curing. The high-performance hybrid TCEs produced using R2R-compatible processes show potential as a viable choice for replacing vacuum-deposited indium tin oxide films on PET. Read the study for more.
Dr. Laisuo Su
“Battery safety and security for electric urban air mobility” was published in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science. The authors of the article are Jiaqi Ke, Dipali Jain, Jiayi Zhang, Boyu Wang, Yiorgos Makris, Kyeongjae Cho, Kaveh Shamsi, and Laisuo Su.
With this article, Dr. Laisuo Su and his group identify the unique safety and cybersecurity risks associated with batteries for electric urban air mobility and argue for a safety- and security-by-design approach. Their perspective outlines integrated technical and standards-based strategies needed to enable airworthy and resilient eUAM battery systems.
Department Publications
1. Huff, T., Blue, B., McCallum, T., Morin, M., Allis, D. G., Addou, R., Barton, J., Bottomley, A., Cheng, D., Ćulum, N. M., Drew, M., Enright, T., Godfrey, A. T. K., Groome, R., Hill, A. J., Inayeh, A., Kennedy, M. R., Kirby, R. J., Krykunov, M., … Vobornik, D. (August 22, 2025). Molecular Tools for Non-Planar Surface Chemistry. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16798
2. A. Mashhadian, T. Hwang, S. Wu, C. Kyeongjae, et al. “ Direct Writing of Oxygen-Doped Mo2C Enabled by Low-Temperature Laser Deposition for High-Performance Acidic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.” Adv. Mater. (September 12, 2025): e15697. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202515697
3. Tan, Y., Wang, B., Limon, M. S. R., Navid, A. F., Ke, J., Gatts, J., Li, T., Wu, S., Nguyen, H., Cho, K., Ahmad, Z., & Su, L. (October 2025). Polyanionic Halide Glasses: A New Family of Sodium Superionic Conductors. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7785016/v1
4. Yang, Z., Hwang, T., Mu, Y., Luo, J., Perruci, G., Lu, H., Cho, K., & Zhou, Y. (October 2025). Understanding the mechanistic role of reversible Li Ag alloy interphases in ultralong-cycle lithium-metal batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal, 524, 169212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.169212
5. Jian, R., Mashhadian, A., Wang, C., Hwang, T., Hao, Y., Cho, K., & Xiong, G. (August 2025). Reassessing the Commercialization of Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries Based on Laboratory Achievements. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 8. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.5c01298
6. Mansoori, Shoaib, Fischetti, Massimo, et al. “Bilayer TMDs for Future FETs: Carrier Dynamics and Device Implications.” Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) vol. 15,19 1526. 5 Oct. 2025, https://doi.org/10.3390/nano15191526
7. Allen, C.R., Patel, M.A., Valdez, M., Julia W.P. Hsu, et al. Effects of fuels on thermal and ultraviolet conversion of indium nitrate combustion sol-gel films. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol (October 16, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-025-06985-1
8. Bhandari, B., Bonner, J. C., Timofeev, M., Scheideler, W. J., & Hsu, J. W. P. (October 6, 2025). Designing transparent conducting electrodes to enhance the performance of large-area perovskite solar cells. Journal of Physics: Energy. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7655/ae0fe2
9. Dunn, B., Meza-Arroyo, J., Tiihonen, A., Lee, M., & Hsu, J. W. P. (October 6, 2025). Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization with Human-in-the-Loop for Flexible Neuromorphic Electronics Fabrication. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11727
10. Meza-Arroyo, J., Dunn, B., Xu, W., Chen, Y.-C., Chen, J.-S., & Hsu, J. W. P. (October 8, 2025). Bayesian Optimization of Multi-Bit Pulse Encoding in In2O3/Al2O3 Thin-film Transistors for Temporal Data Processing. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07421
11. Sharma, C., Boozer, A. O., Nimmagadda, J. K., Shea, B. C., Lee, M., Kim, J., & Nino, J. C. (November 2025). Design and assembly of in situ electrical characterization setup for semiconductor devices in mixed neutron and gamma radiation at the University of Florida Training Reactor: Application to HZO-based MFM capacitors. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 568, 165834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165834
12. Banerjee D, Brand EJ, McCall KM. Chain-Head Engineering Dictates Structural Dimensionality and Bright Emission in Long-Chain A2MnCl4 . ChemRxiv. 2025; doi: https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/68c369ae23be8e43d678748a
13. Fernandez-Izquierdo, L., Sotelo-Lerma, M., Cabrera-German, D., Borbon-Rojas, S., & Quevedo-Lopez, M. (October 2025). Mechanochemical synthesis of lead-free Perovskites: Comparative kinetics of antimony- and bismuth-based systems. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 197, 109678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2025.109678
14. Z. Shi, S. Thomas, G. Melinte, D. Guo, J. K. El-Demellawi, N. Jaber, M. A. Quevedo-Lopez, O. M. Bakr, O. F. Mohammed, H. N. Alshareef, Failure Mechanism of High-Temperature Li–S Batteries in Localized High-Concentration Electrolytes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. September 25, 2025, e202515993. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202515993
15. Grijalva-Saavedra, R., Suarez-Campos, G., Ruiz-Molina, M., Arias-Ramos, C.F., Quevedo-Lopez, M.Á., Fernandez-Izquierdo, L., Cabrera-German, D., Hu, H. and Sotelo-Lerma, M. (September 2025), Rapid Ambient-Pressure Annealing of Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Films Synthesized by Chemical Bath Deposition for Photovoltaic Applications. Phys. Status Solidi A, 222: 2500468. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.202500468
16. Borbon, S., Fernandez-Izquierdo, L., Solis, J., Ramirez-Vasquez, M., Sotelo-Lerma, M., Carbajal-Franco, G., … Quevedo-López, M. A. (August 2025). Microwave-Assisted Thick MAPbBr3 for High-Energy Radiation Detection. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 7(15), 7237–7244. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.5c01019
17. Yuan Tan, Boyu Wang, Md Salman Rabbi Limon, Laisuo Su, et al. Polyanionic Halide Glasses: A New Family of Sodium Superionic Conductors, 07 October 2025, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7785016/v1
18. Rocha Flores, P. E., Manz, C., Voit, W., & Carmel, J. B. (2025). ID# 1907111 Human-Sized Softening Multi-Electrode Arrays for Optimized Spinal Cord Stimulation. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, 28(7, Supplement), S199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurom.2025.08.377
19. Pascual-Leone, A., Asan, A. S., Tyagi, V., Rodriguez-Lopez, O., Rocha-Flores, P. E., Voit, W. E., McIntosh, J. R., & Carmel, J. B. (2025). ID# 1902956 Optimizing Cervical Epidural Spinal Cord Stimulation Parameters for Rat Forelimb Muscles. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, 28(7, Supplement), S59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurom.2025.08.110
20. Photoassisted Chemical Vapor Deposition Using (η4-Diene)Ru(CO)3 Precursors, Christopher R. Brewer, Bishwaprava Das, Rashmi Singh, Diego Caretti, Dyotana Bhattacharyya, Oluwatamilore Oni, Xin Kang, Jonah Perry, Lisa McElwee-White, and Amy V. Walker, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, September 16, 2025, 17 (39), 55034-55044, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c11415
21. Amy V. Walker, “Selective deposition three ways: chemical bath deposition of metal sulfides on organic substrates,” Proc. SPIE 13582, Low-Dimensional Materials and Devices 2025, 135820I (17 September 2025); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3065035
22. Khushabu S. Agrawal, Paolo La Torraca, Jonas Valentijn, Roberta Hawkins, Adam A. Gruszecki, Joy Roy, Vasily Lebedev, Lewys Jones, Robert M. Wallace, Chadwin D. Young, Paul K. Hurley, Karim Cherkaoui; The characterization and understanding of electrically active defects in the HfO2/β-Ga2O3(2̄01) MOS system. APL Mater. 1 September 2025; 13 (8): 081116. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0283247
23. K. Kawasaki, J. B. Merlo, S. Gonzalez, L. B. Bayu Aji, S. J. Shin, G. V. Taylor, A. M. Engwall-Holmes, M. Seo, A. A. Baker, M. S. Wong, F. M. O’Neill, S. O. Kucheyev; High-rate magnetron sputter deposition of low-stress boron carbide films on tilted substrates. J. Appl. Phys. 14 September 2025; 138 (10): 105302. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0283657
24. M. S. Wong, G. V. Taylor, M. Seo, L. R. Sohngen, J. B. Merlo, L. B. Bayu Aji, S. J. Shin, S. Nakamura, S. O. Kucheyev; Effects of hydrogen on sputter-deposited boron carbide films. J. Appl. Phys. 7 September 2025; 138 (9): 095301. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0272124