
Our Latest News
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 Kura Burton joined LMAPS as undergraduate research assistants.
16 August 2023
Amin Nemati joined LMAPS as a PhD student.
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.