Our Latest News
10 August 2025
LMAPS undergraduate research assistants, Victoria (top), and Kyra (bottom), successfully completed internships at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado and Li Industries in North Carolina, respectively.
14 & 23 July 2025
LMAPS hosted rising seniors from the Governor's School, along with Chemical Engineering undergraduates from the University of Technology and Applied Sciences in Oman, for a one-day “Battery BootCamp.” The picture shows LMAPS PhD student, Aishwarya, demonstrating the doctor blade process for coating battery electrodes to the visiting students.
30 June 2025
Dr. Jalilvand was featured in an article for her contribution to the Li-S battery Research.
https://www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2025/07/golareh-jalilvand-lithium-sulphur-battery.php
6 June 2025
Our recent work on the effect of binder processing on Lithium-Sulfur cathode morphology was published in Energy and Environmental Science-Batteries. Congratulations to Dr. Saheed Lateef and Co-authors.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2025/eb/d5eb00062a
6 June 2025
Dr. Jalilvand gave an invited talk at the Battery Safety Workshop at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.​
18-22 May 2025
LMAPS was proudly represented at the 247th ECS Meeting in Montreal, Canada, with four members participating and delivering several presentations.
3 May 2025
LMAPS celebrated the start of the summer, along with Claire Murphy's graduation and her acceptance to the Chemical Engineering PhD program at UT Austin (with her favorite dish, grilled lamb chops ;) )!
23 April 2025
Our recent work on an expansion mitigant binders for high-performance Lithium-Sulfur batteries was published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congratulations to Dr. Avinash Raulo and Co-authors.
22 February 2025
LMAPS hosted students from K4–K8 schools during the Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing’s Open House Day. A group of LMAPS members, led by Kyra Burton, demonstrated redox reactions to the visitors, showcasing the processes that occur during the charging and discharging of a battery. Special Thanks to Cocky for stopping by our Booth, "The charging Station".
10 February 2025
LMAPS's outstanding undergraduate research assistant, Victoria Colon-LaBorde, was selected for the competitive program of Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) at the Department of Energy. Victoria will spend her summer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, working on lithium ion battery cathode and electrolyte materials
10 December 2024
Dr. Saheed Lateef earned his doctoral degree with flying colors and became the first LMAPS PhD graduate! Cogratulations, Dr. Lateef!
5 December 2024
Our recent work on electrode processing parameters for high-performance Lithium-Sulfur batteries was published in JES. Congratulations to Saheed Lateef and Co-authors.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1945-7111/ad9ad4/meta
10 October 2024
Hunter presented his research on the chemical/electrochemical interaction of cellulose-based separators and Lithium metal at the PRiME 2024 meeting in Honolulu, HI.
5-6 August 2024
LMAPS members participated in the 2024 Battery Safety Workshop.
6 August 2024
LMAPS members were awarded 1st place and 3rd place in the student poster competition at the Battery Safety Workshop. Congratulations to Victoria and Kyra for sharing the 1st place in experimental research, and Hunter for 3rd place in the overall competition.
26 July 2024
LMAPS Game Day!
25 July 2024
LMAPS summer interns presented their works at USC Discover.
15 July 2024
LMAPS hosted the second cohort of Governors School rising junior students for a one-day battery workshop through the GSSM Accelerate program. Picture showing Victoria Colon-Laborde, and Claire Murphy, the LMAPS undergraduate research assistant, guiding the workshop attendees through the electrode preparation, and coin cell assembly.
10 June 2024
LMAPS welcomed Kalianah Moreno and HaleyTibai, the Governors School rising senior high school students, for a six-week summer research internship.
26 May 2024
LMAPS welcomed NSF-REU student, Lilly Johnson, for a summer internship working on LFP electrode processing in LIBs.
23 May 2024
LMAPS team was featured by the College of Engineering and Computing at USC. Read more ...
14 May 2024
Dr. Jalilvand gave a talk at the 2024 South Carolina Battery Symposium.
19 April 2024
Hunter received the Honorable Mention of the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
15 April 2024
LMAPS' amazing undergraduate research assistants were awarded multiple research scholarships
Claire Murphy: Victor Laurie Senior Year Scholarship
Victoria Colon-LaBorde: Honors College Research Scholarship
Kyra Burton: Honors College Research Scholarship
25 January 2024
Our collaborative research article on the water scavenging capability of cellulose-based separators, co-first authored by Hunter McRay, was published in the ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces"
15 January 2024
Our Review paper, a collaborative work by Drs. Jalilvand and Raulo, was published in the prestigious journal of "NanoEnergy"
20 November 2023
Dr. Jalilvand gave a seminar on LSB cathode engineering at the Ohio Univeristy.
15 November 2023
Victoria was awarded the Honors College research Grant.
11 November 2023
LMAPS Game Day!
8-12 October 2023
Dr. Jalilvand attended the ECS meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden.
21-23 September 2023
LMaPS members visited the NantG Power site and kicked off Phase II of the high-performance Lithium-Sulfur battery project.
25 August 2023
Our paper titled "Self-Structured Binder Confinement of Sulfur for Highly Durable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries" was selected as the cover art for the prestigious journal of ACS Applied Energy Materials.
24 August 2023
Victoria Colon-LaBorde, Claire Murphy, and Kyra Burton joined LMAPS as undergraduate research assistants.
19 July 2023
We hosted Freshmen students through the First-Generation Summer Start Program to introduce the UG research opportunities in the college of Engineering and Computing
18 July 2023
We hosted a group of rising senior student for a one day battery camp.
12 June 2023
We welcomed to our lab, Azhan Lateef and Ella Humphrey, two highschool rising seniors, as summer interns. .
8-9 June 2023
Dr. Jalilvand and collaborators at USC and UNCC co-organized a workshop on battery saftey.
28 May- 2 June 2023
We participated in the 243rd meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Boston with an oral presentations.
16 May 2023
Dr. Jalilvand had an invited talk at the SC Battery Symposium.
15 January 2023
Hunter McRay started his PhD in LMAPS, and Avinash Raulo joined LMAPS as a postdoctoral fellow.
5 December 2022
Hunter McRay graduated as a Magna Cum Laude chemical engineer.
9-13 October 2022
We participated in the 242nd meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Atlanta with 3 oral and 2 poster presentations.
1 October 2022
Marjanul Manjum joined LMAPS as a postdoctoral fellow.
1 September 2022
We excitedly kicked off a new project in collaboration with the Fraunhofer IPT and sponsored by Soteria Battery Innovation Group, and SC Department of Commerce.
9 July 2022
Wynter presented her research poster at the SPRI meeting!
16 June 2022
We welcomed Wynter Stroman as an intern through the Summer Program Research Internship (SPRI).
1 June 2022
We excitedly kicked off a new project on Sulfur cathode engineering in collaboration funded by NantEnergy.
5 May 2022
Hunter accepted a summer internship position at Symrise AG.
28 June 2022
Five technical abstracts from the LMAPS team were accepted for oral and poster presentations at the 242nd meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS).
1 May 2022
Hunter was awarded both the Magellan Scholar Award and McNair Research Scholarship.
20 April 2022
Dr. Jalilvand was granted the Aspire Award!
3 March 2022
Dr. Jalilvand gave a seminar at UofSC on LMAPS Research.
January 2022
LMAPS was established!
The very first undergraduate research assistant, Hunter McRay, and PhD student, Saheed Lateef, joined the lab.