Yet-Ming Chiang

About

Professor Yet-Ming Chiang is the Kyocera Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. His research focuses on designing, synthesizing, and characterizing advanced materials and devices for use in clean energy technologies, including low-carbon transportation, grid-scale electrical energy storage, and sustainable manufacturing. His group studies electrochemical storage materials and devices, electrochemical processes for the decarbonization of materials production, and the mining, separation, and recovery of elements from various feedstocks. Key projects include exploring novel conduction mechanisms in solid electrolytes, developing solid-state batteries, batteries for electric aviation, low-cost scalable grid storage batteries, decarbonization of cement production, and electrochemical mining of ashes and wastes. Professor Chiang earned his BS in materials science and engineering from MIT in 1980 and his doctorate in ceramics from MIT in 1985. His laboratory's work ranges from basic research to process and prototype development, and he has successfully brought several discoveries to commercialization, such as high-power lithium iron phosphate batteries, more efficient lithium-ion battery manufacturing processes, batteries for long-duration grid storage, and electrochemical cement production. He co-directs a flagship project under MIT Climate Grand Challenges on the decarbonization of industrial materials production. Professor Chiang is a Fellow of the…

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Composite material
• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Materials science
• Metallurgy
• Nanotechnology
• Geometry
• Systems engineering
• Chemical engineering

Selected publications

• The challenges and opportunities of battery-powered flight

  Nature · 2022 · 475 citations

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• Energy storage emerging: A perspective from the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 337 citations

  Energy storage is an integral part of modern society. A contemporary example is the lithium (Li)-ion battery, which enabled the launch of the personal electronics revolution in 1991 and the first commercial electric vehicles in 2010. Most recently, Li-ion batteries have expanded into the electricity grid to firm variable renewable generation, increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of transmission and distribution. Important applications continue to emerge including decarbonization of heavy-…

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• Semi-solid alkali metal electrodes enabling high critical current densities in solid electrolyte batteries

  Nature Energy · 2021 · 137 citations

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  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Controlling dendrite propagation in solid-state batteries with engineered stress

  Joule · 2022 · 136 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Exploration of Biomass-Derived Activated Carbons for Use in Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries

  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering · 2020 · 53 citations

  Increasing redox reaction rates on carbon electrodes is an important step to reducing the cost of all-vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs). Biomass-derived activated carbons (ACs) hold promise as they may obviate the need for post-synthetic modifications common to conventional materials. While initial efforts have shown that these materials can enhance VRFB performance, the wide selection of potentially inexpensive feedstocks and synthesis routes lead to a collection of electrocatalytic materia…

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Mechanical and Electrical Reliability Maximization of Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries through Microstructure Design

  NSF · $73k · 2009–2012

Frequent coauthors

• Fikile R. Brushett

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  85 shared

• W. Craig Carter

  63 shared

• Ming Tang

  University of Science and Technology of China

  53 shared

• Kevin M. Tenny

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  44 shared

• R. M. Cannon

  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  35 shared

• Sung‐Yoon Chung

  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

  35 shared

• William H. Woodford

  Form Energy (United States)

  32 shared

• M. Gautier-Soyer

  Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

  32 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1990

• M.S., Materials Science and Engineering

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1985

• B.S., Physics

  California Institute of Technology

  1983

Awards & honors

• Fellow of the Electrochemical Society
• Fellow of the Materials Research Society
• Fellow of the American Ceramic Society
• Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
• 2016 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award

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