KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) -- California-based advanced lithium-ion battery company, Ionblox has appointed Dr Shirley Meng, a Professor of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago to its advisory board.
Meng is also the Chief Scientist for Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science, and holds a PhD in Advanced Materials for Micro and Nano Systems.
In a statement, Ionblox chief technology officer and co-founder, Dr Herman Lopez said the company is thrilled to welcome Meng to its advisory board and looks forward to leveraging her battery insights and expertise.
“Dr Meng’s support of Ionblox’s unique pre-lithiated silicon oxide anode technology is a signal to the industry that we are leading the path toward the next generation of e-mobility applications,” he added.
Meanwhile, Meng said she looks forward to working with the Ionblox team to commercialise their high-performance lithium-ion batteries using a pre-lithiated silicon oxide anode.
At her current positions, Meng focuses her research on energy storage materials and systems, specifically on rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles, power sources for Internet of Things and sustainable grid-scale storage.
She founded the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at the University of California, San Diego, and was the inaugural director at the Institute for Materials Discovery and Design.
In 2022, Ionblox received a new United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) contract to develop low-cost and fast-charge silicon-based cells for electric vehicles.
This partnership with USABC will continue to help scale-up the electrification of vehicles across the country and will become especially strong under Meng’s guidance.
-- BERNAMA
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