- 3017 South Engineering Research Center
- Phone (205) 348-0413
Dr. Zhou Yu
Assistant Professor
Contact
- 3017 South Engineering Research Center
- phone (205) 348-0413
Research Areas
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2018
- M.S., Engineering Thermophysics, Shandong University, 2015
- B.S., Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, Shandong University, 2012
Dr. Zhou (Joe) Yu is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests focus on understanding and predicting the physicochemical properties of advanced energy materials, especially battery electrolytes, using molecular simulations and theory-driven approaches spanning spatio-temporal scales.
Affiliated Areas
Mechanical Engineering
Selected Publications
- Yu, Z.; Batista, E. R.; Yang, P.; Perez, D.; Acceleration of Solvation Free Energy Calculation via Thermodynamics Integration Coupled with Gaussian Process Regression and Improved Gelman-Rubin Convergence Diagnostics, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2024, 20, 2570−2581.
- Yu, Z.; Shi, Z.; Bheemireddy, S. R.; Kamphause, E.; An, B.; Uddin, M. A.; Li, Z.; Yang, Z.; Xu, K.; Li, T.; Moore, J. S.; Zhang, L.; Cheng, L.; Simulation Guided Molecular Design of Hydrofluoroether Solvent for High Energy Batteries, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2024, 12, 6294-6301.
- Yu, Z.; Balsara, N. P.; Borodin, O.; Gewirth, A. A.; Hahn, N. T.; Maginn, E. J.; Persson, K.; Srinivasan, V.; Toney, M. F.; Xu, K.; Zavadil, K.; Curtiss, L. A.; Cheng, L., Beyond Local Solvation Structure: Nanometric Aggregates in Battery Electrolytes and their Effect on Electrolyte Properties. ACS Energy Letters 2022, 7, 461-470.
- Yu, Z.; Curtiss, L. A.; Winans, R. E.; Zhang, Y.; Li, T.; Cheng, L., Asymmetric Composition of Ionic Aggregates and the Origin of High Correlated Transference Number in Water-in-Salt Electrolytes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2020, 11, 1276-1281.
- Yu, Z.; Fang, C.; Huang, J.; Sumpter, B. G.; Qiao, R., Solvate Ionic Liquids at Electrified Interfaces. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018, 10, 32151-32161.