Y. Shirley Meng

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As of May 2026: Chief Scientist, Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science

On December 29, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory researchers published findings in Nature Nanotechnology that flip battery science on its head. Single-crystal lithium-ion batteries, designed to avoid the grain-boundary cracking that plagued older batteries, are failing anyway — for the exact opposite reason scientists expected.

Updated May 18