Selected media coverage Press & Media
Selected coverage of research at Argonne — flow batteries, redox shuttles, self-reporting redoxmers, and AI-driven materials discovery — across the laboratory's own press room, science press syndication, and industry trade publications.
Featured video
Argonne / JCESR · 2016
JCESR scientific sprint feature on polymer redoxmer chemistry for next-generation batteries. Lu Zhang appears as one of the featured presenters explaining the team's flow-battery work.
In the news
latest first Nature Communications · 2024-03 Journal — flagship publication
Robotic chemistry + ML for electrolyte discovery. Co-authored work demonstrating an automated workflow that screened a 2000+ solvent library and identified solvents with >6.20 M solubility for 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole, while testing fewer than 10% of candidates.
Tech Xplore · 2021-11 Tech press
Tech Xplore syndication of the Argonne AI flow-battery story.
Argonne National Laboratory · 2021-11 Lab news
Argonne's official write-up of the AI-driven flow battery materials work; Lu Zhang named co-author with Lily Robertson.
ScienceDaily · 2021-11 Tech press
Coverage of the JCESR / Argonne quantum-chemistry-guided multiobjective Bayesian optimization study — searching a million-molecule chemical space for optimal flow battery materials.
PV Magazine International · 2021-02 Industry press
Solar / energy industry trade press coverage of the self-reporting flow battery work.
Tech Xplore · 2021-02 Tech press
Tech Xplore syndication of the self-reporting redox flow battery story.
EurekAlert · 2021-02 Press release syndication
Official press release on the self-reporting redoxmer work; widely picked up by science press.
Argonne National Laboratory · 2021-02 Lab news — major feature
Coverage of fluorescent 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole redoxmer molecules that signal crossover events in flow batteries — designed by the JCESR team Lu Zhang led.
Argonne National Laboratory · 2017 Lab news
Coverage of the Annulated Dialkoxybenzenes catholyte work (Adv. Energy Mater. 2017). Lu Zhang named as the leading scientist.
phys.org · 2014 Tech press — patent confirmation
Coverage of the redox-shuttle patent that anchored the 2014 R&D 100 Award win.
Reference profiles
Argonne (Flickr)
Argonne's official Flickr photo of Lu Zhang holding the R&D 100 redox-shuttle additive flask alongside Zhengcheng (John) Zhang.
Argonne National Laboratory
ANL's chemist staff page.
Google Scholar
4,700+ citations · h-index 39 · i10-index 89.
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