Yue Qi

About

Yue Qi is the Joan Wernig Sorensen Professor of Engineering at Brown University and serves as the Deputy Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy (ISE). His research interests include computational materials science, multi-scale modeling, defects and transport, complex interfaces, and electrochemical-mechanical coupling in battery and fuel cell materials. He has received recognition for his distinguished research accomplishments, including being elected as a 2026 Materials Research Society Fellow and receiving the Ross Coffin Purdy Award from the American Ceramic Society. His work has contributed to the development of new design specifications for sodium-ion batteries, which are emerging as a less expensive and more environmentally friendly alternative to lithium-based batteries. Additionally, he is among the top two percent of scientists worldwide in engineering and has been awarded a $1.3 million Department of Energy grant in collaboration with colleagues.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Chemistry
• Composite material
• Organic chemistry
• Chemical engineering
• Chemical physics
• Forensic engineering
• Nanotechnology

Selected publications

• Reversible planar gliding and microcracking in a single-crystalline Ni-rich cathode

  Science · 2020-12-10 · 846 citations

  articleOpen access

  High-energy nickel (Ni)-rich cathode will play a key role in advanced lithium (Li)-ion batteries, but it suffers from moisture sensitivity, side reactions, and gas generation. Single-crystalline Ni-rich cathode has a great potential to address the challenges present in its polycrystalline counterpart by reducing phase boundaries and materials surfaces. However, synthesis of high-performance single-crystalline Ni-rich cathode is very challenging, notwithstanding a fundamental linkage between over…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Copper-coordinated cellulose ion conductors for solid-state batteries

  Nature · 2021 · 606 citations

  DOI

• A New General Paradigm for Understanding and Preventing Li Metal Penetration through Solid Electrolytes

  Joule · 2020 · 125 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  DOI

• Grain boundary zirconia-modified garnet solid-state electrolyte

  Nature Materials · 2025-10-15 · 9 citations

  article
  PublisherDOI

• Structural effects on oxygen vacancies and redox behavior in Mn-based perovskite oxides

  Solid State Ionics · 2025-10-30 · 5 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding

  A series of perovskite oxides Ln 2 / 3 A 1 / 3 Mn O 3 (Ln = La, Pr, Nd, Gd; A = Ba, Sr) was investigated to understand the effects of A-site cation size on oxygen vacancy formation. Quasirandom L n 2 / 3 A 1 / 3 Mn O 3 mixed structures were generated using Alloy Theoretic Automated Toolkit (ATAT), followed by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. While mixing the orthorhombic LnMn O 3 structures with the hexagonal AMnO 3 structures leads to lattices and global symmetries closer to cubic,…

  PublisherDOI

Recent grants

• GOALI - Collaborative Research: Chemically induced stresses and degradation mechanisms in ceramic materials for Li ion batteries

  NSF · $218k · 2021–2024

• GOALI - Collaborative Research: The Impact of Chemically Induced Stresses on Kinetic Processes and Degradation Mechanisms in Non-Stoichiometric Oxides

  NSF · $275k · 2014–2019

• GOALI - Collaborative Research: Chemically induced stresses and degradation mechanisms in ceramic materials for Li ion batteries

  NSF · $274k · 2018–2021

Frequent coauthors

• Wenji Yu

  Chinese Academy of Forestry

  48 shared

• Brian W. Sheldon

  45 shared

• Nam–Hun Kim

  Kangwon National University

  44 shared

• Jiyun Park

  Providence College

  41 shared

• Wahyu Hidayat

  33 shared

• Xingcheng Xiao

  General Motors (United States)

  31 shared

• Yifan Yuan

  Wenzhou Medical University

  31 shared

• Qisheng Wu

  30 shared

Labs

• Yue Qi LaboratoryPI

Education

• Ph.D, Materials Science

  California Institute of Technology

  2001

Awards & honors

• Materials Research Society Fellow (2026)
• Ross Coffin Purdy Award from American Ceramic Society (2025)

Similar researchers at Brown University

• Huajian Gaoh-156
• John Donoghueh-127
• Nitin Padtureh-115