- February 2021: Adam Cotton (BS/MS student) joined the research group

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- February 2021: Dr. Cho received a research award from Illinois Innovation Network.

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- December 2020: Swachwa Dey finished the MS thesis proposal.

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- September 2020: A research contract was made to support modeling work to Argonne National Lab for development of the next

                              generation batteries.

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- June 2020: A contract of a research project for Idaho National Laboratory was made, and three students (one Ph.D student,

                    one master student, and one undergraduate student) will work on this project and Dr. Cho will work as a co-PI.

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- June 2020: A paper "Flow-Field Geometry Effect on H2-Iron Redox Flow Battery" authored by S. Cho, C. Janis, CJ. Inc, K.T. Cho,

                    accepted in Journal of Energy Engineering.

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- May 2020: Dr. Cho was awarded from NASA (Illinois Space Grant Consortium) for a proposal "Feasibility Study of a Novel

                    Wastewater Treatment Technology for Space Missions of NASA", and an advanced wastewater treatment system

                    called “electrocoagulation” will be developed to provide clean water for NASA space missions.

 

- April 2020: Luiz and Jose were hired as intern student for Idaho National Laboratory, and they will work on the ongoing project

                    with INL.

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- April 2020: A paper"Analysis of Oxide Film in Ionic Liquid Based Aluminum Air Battery", authored by C. Welch, A. Mohammad, 

                     N. Hosmane, Lu Zhang, and K.T. Cho, publised in Energies (2020), 13, 2014; doi:10.3390/en13082014.

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- January 2020: Dr. Rooyen and Dr. Sabharwall from Idaho National Lab visited our group for research discussion and we had

                          fruitful  discussion for collaborative research in the future.

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- January 2020: A paper "Implementation and Optimization of a Variable Speed Coolant Pump in a Powertrain Cooling System",

                          accepted in SAE International Journal of Commercial Vehicles.

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- January 2020: Two new graduate students joined our research group: Sina Tayebati who will work on analyzing the interfacial

         phenomena between solid and electroyte, and Porfirio Navar who will work on investigating the effect of density and size

         distribution of metal powders on melt pool geometry in additive manufacturing process.

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- November 2019: A paper of "Analysis of the effect of hydrogen-evolving side reaction in the aqueous aluminum-air battery" was

                             accepted in Electrochimica Acta. Congratulation.

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- October 2019: Adebayo passed the defense of Master degree with study of electro-coagulation for wastewater treatment.

  Luis passed the defense of Master degree with topic of experimental/numerical study of additive manufacturing. Congratulation. 

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- September 2019: Dr. Cho had an invited talk about his research on electrochemical energy system in the department of

                              mechanical engineering at university of Connecticut.

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- August 2019: Swachwa Dey joined our group, and he will focus on numerical study of flow battery system

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- August 2019: A paper "Activation of Carbon Porous Paper for Alkaline Alcoholic Fuel Cells" authored by Deva Harsha Perugupalli,

                        Tao Xu, and Kyu Taek Cho published in energies.

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- August 2019: Dr. Cho is appointed as a guest editor for special issue "Experiment, Modeling Research and Actual System 

                        Applications on Redox Flow Battery" on the processes journal.

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- July 2019: Dr. Cho's article (membrane-less H2-iron flow battery) was featured online at Advanced Engineering.

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- June 2019: A patent "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETURNING MATERIAL FROM THE Br2 SIDE OF AN H2/Br2 FLOW

                     BATTERY BACK AFTER CROSSOVER" co-invented by Edward Knudsen, Paul Albertus, Michael C. Tucker,

                     Kyu Taek Cho, Adam Z. Weber was filed in US patent. Patent number: US 10326153 B2.

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- May 2019: Dr. Cho attended ECS conference at Dallas, TX, and he presented 3 talks about "numerical analysis of hydrogen-

                    evolving side reaction on the performance of aqueous Al-Air battery", "Analysis of Oxide Film on Aluminum Electrode

                    in Ionic Liquid Based Aluminum Air Battery" "Redox-Mediated Bromate Based Electrochemical Energy System

                    (Aqueous multi-electron RFB )"

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- May 2019: The project with ASTG was renewed for additional six months. Congratulation.

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- March 2019: Luis Nunez joined our group, and he will focus on numerical analysis of additive manufacturing process.

                       Sarah Johnson joined our group as a undergraduate research assistant, and she will focus on testing Al-air battery.

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- Jan. 2019: Prof. Hyunchul Ju at Inha University, S. Korea visited Dr. Cho's group for his sabbatical leave for one and half years.

                    Welcome, and I hope it leads to a great collaboration of research.

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- Jan. 2019: Dr. Cho received external grant from Argonne National Laboratory for non-aqueous flow battery. Congratulation.

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- Jan. 2019: A paper "Redox-mediated bromate based electrochemical energy system" authored by Talha and Dr. Cho was

                    published in Journal of the electrochemical society. Congratulation.

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- Jan. 2019: John Wozny and Mian Muhammad Ali Raza joined our group. John will conduct experimental work and Ali will focus

                    on numerical analysis of flow battery systems.

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- Dec. 2018: Christopher Welch joined the group, and he will focus on the research of growth/breakdown mechanism of oxide film

                     formed on aluminum metal in the ionic liquid solution. Welcome on board, and good luck for your research.

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- Oct. 2018: Chong Zhou passed the defense of master's degree. Congratulation. Best wish for your future endeavors.

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- June 2018: Adebayo Adejinle joined the group, and he will focus on the research of wastewater treatment by electro-coagulation

                     method. Welcome on board, and good luck for your research

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- June 2018: Talha Razaulla passed the defense of master's degree. Congratulation. Best wish for your future endeavors.

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- June 2018: Dr. Cho received external grant from ASTG for wastewater treatment system. Congratulation.

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- May 2018: A paper "Membrane-less Hydrogen Iron Redox Flow battery" authored by Kyamra, Jayanth, and Dr. Cho was

                    published in Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage. Congratulation.

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- May 2018: Dr. Cho received internal grant, Opportunity Grant Research and Artistry for “Study of growth and breakdown

                    mechanism of oxide film on aluminum metal electrode in ionic-liquid based aluminum air battery". May 2018. 

                    Congratulation.

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- Oct. 2017: Abdul Kaleem Mohammad passes the defense of master's degree. Congratulation. Best wish for your future endeavors

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- July 2017: Kyamra Marma passed the defense of master's degree. Congratulation. I wish all the best for your future endeavors

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- Feb. 2017: Kaustubh Bhonge passed the defense of master's degree. Congratulation. Best wish for your future endeavors

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- Jan. 2017: Chong Zhou joined the ECTEL lab. Welcome on board.

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- Nov. 2016: Jayanth got a job at Xergy (http://www.xergyinc.com/).  Congratulation.

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- August 2016: Deva Harsha passed the defense of master's degree. Congratulation. Best wish for your future endeavors

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- June 2016: Chaitanya and Jayanth passed the master defense.  Congratulation. Best wish for your future endeavors

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- May 2016: Dr. Cho’s paper “Review of hydrogen halogen flow cells” was accepted in Energy Technology Journal

                    as a cover article.  Congratulation.

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- May 2016: Kaustubh started internship at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.  Good luck for your research.

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- May 2016: Dr. Cho received Great Journeys Scholarship Grant for “Study of Metal-Air Flow Battery as a High Electrical Energy

                    Power Source”, May 2016.  Mohammad will be fully supported (tuition waver and stipend based on 20hrs per week)

                    for one year by this scholarship.  Congratulation.

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- May 2016: Dr. Cho received internal grant, Opportunity Grant Research and Artistry for “Development of Alkaline Alcoholic Fuel

                    Cell”, May 2016.  Congratulation.

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- March 2016: Anthony Gilbert & Michael Schmitt received grant under Dr. Cho’s guidance from Undergraduate Special

                       Opportunities In Artistry and Research (USOAR), March 2016 for “Study of Aluminum-Air Battery to Resolve the Side

                       Reactions to Improve the Cell Performance” Congratulation.

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- Oct. 2015: Nicholar Komp and Samantha Walberg received grant under Dr. Cho’s guidance from Undergraduate Special

                   Opportunities In Artistry and Research (USOAR), Oct. 2015 for “Measurement of OH- conductivity of Anion Membrane”

                   Congratulation.

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- July 2015: Kaustubh joined the group, and he will focus on the research of metal-air battery system, especially effect of

                    concentrated ion electrolyte. Welcome on board, and good luck for your research.

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- May 2015: Dr. Cho received internal grant, Opportunity Grant Research and Artistry for “Membrane-less Flow Battery”, May

                    2015.  Congratulation.

- May 2015: Dr. Cho received Great Journeys Scholarship Grant for “Nanofluids as Direct Solar Collector”, May 2015.  Chaitanya

                    will be fully supported (tuition waver and stipend based on 20hrs per week) for one year by this scholarship. 

                    Congratulation.

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- April 2015: Hassan finished a Master Degree Defense.  Congratulation and good luck for your future.

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- Feb. 2015: Chris Janis and Jay Bhadola received grant under Dr. Cho’s guidance in Undergraduate Special Opportunities In

                    Artistry and Research (USOAR), Feb. 2015 for “Effect of flow field on flow battery performance” Congratulation.

- Feb. 2015: Deva joined the group, and he will focus on enhancing oxygen reduction reaction on carbon electrode for the alkaline

                    alcoholic fuel cell.  Welcome on board, and good luck for your research.

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- Jan. 2015: Jayanth joined the group, and he will focus on understanding the properties of carbon porous electrode, especially

                    porosity (i.e. permeability) vs reactivity, and cell geometry for the membrane-less flow battery system. Welcome on

                    board, and good luck for your research.

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- Nov. 2014: Chaitanya joined the group, and he will work on nanofluids system to understand the stability mechanism.  Welcome

                     on board, and good luck for your research.

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- Oct. 2014: Hassan joined the group due the retirement of his adviser, Dr. Kostic.  He will conduct a research of nanofluids (effect

                    of additives).  Welcome on board, and good luck for your research.