Research Areas: Chemical Engineering
Electrochemical Technology
Fuels & Catalysis Science
Materials Science & Engineering
Renewable Energy
Clean Fuels & Catalysis
Education Background: • Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, 2015
• B.Sc. (Chemistry), Fudan University, 2010
About:
Shi is an assistant professor of energy engineering. She began at Penn State in 2019. She holds a B.S. in chemistry from Fudan University in China and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Penn State, Shi was a postdoctoral researcher in the Material Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University. Shi’s research interests lie broadly at the intersection of surface chemistry, material science and mechanical engineering, with emphasis on integrated energy systems (innovation in conversion, storage, transport, and consumption systems). She is also the Virginia S. and Philip L. Walker Faculty Fellow in Material Science and Engineering.
Research Interests:
• Electrochemical energy conversion and storage
• Catalysis
• Surface chemistry, spectroscopy, in-situ diagnostic characterization
• Mechanical property of energy storage materials
Memberships & Committees:
• MRS
Honors & Awards:
• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad 2016
• Conference Travel Grant, UC Berkeley 2015
• John and Janet McMurtry Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2013
• Honors for B.S. degree, Fudan University 2010
• Sumitomo Corporation Scholarship, Fudan University 2008 & 2009
Teaching:
• Instructor, Pennsylvania State University 2019
• Energy Science and Engineering lectures EGEE 012
• Mentor of graduate and undergraduate student, Stanford University 2016-2018
• Graduate student instructor, University of California, Berkeley 2014 & 2015
• Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials (ME 108)
Wang, J., Y. Sun, J. Lai, R. Pan, Y. Fan, X. wu, M. Ou, Y. Zhu, L. Fu, Feifei Shi, and Y. Wu, (2021). Two-dimensional graphitic carbon nitride/N-doped carbon with a direct Z-scheme heterojunction for photocatalytic generation of hydrogen, Nanoscale Advances, v. 3 (23), pp. 6580-6586.
Boyle, D. T., X. Kong, A. Pei, P. E. Rudnicki, Feifei Shi, W. Huang, Z. Bao, J. Qin, and Y. Cui, (2020). Transient Voltammetry with Ultramicroelectrodes Reveals the Electron Transfer Kinetics of Lithium Metal Anodes, ACS Energy Letters, v. 5(3), pp. 701-709, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.0c00031.
Chen, A.-N., C. Qu, Y. Shi, and Feifei Shi, (2020). Manufacturing Strategies for Solid Electrolyte in Batteries. Frontiers in Energy Research, v. 8, pp. 226.
Li, G., W. Chen, H. Zhang, Y. Gong, Feifei Shi, J. Wang, R. Zhang, G. Chen, Y. Jin, T. Wu, Z. Tang, and Y. Cui, (2020). Membrane-Free Zn/MnO2 Flow Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage, Advanced Energy Materials, v. 10 (9), [1902085], https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201902085.
Wu, D. S., G. Zhou, E. Mao, Y. Sun, B. Liu, L. Wang, J. Wang, Feifei Shi, and Y. Cui, (2020). A novel battery scheme: Coupling nanostructured phosphorus anodes with lithium sulfide cathodes, Nano Research, v. 13 (5), pp. 1383-1388, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2645-8.
Been, E., Feifei Shi, S. C. D. Pemmaraju, Y. Cui, and T. Devereaux, (2019). Theoretical modelling of lithium environment in composite solid electrolyte batteries investigated through x-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy, APS March Meeting Abstracts 2019, pp. E47. 006.
Chen, H., A. Pei, D. Lin, J. Zie, A. Yang, J. Xu, K. Lin, J. Wang, H. Wang, Feifei Shi, D. Boyle, and Y. Cui, (2019). Uniform High Ionic Conducting Lithium Sulfide Protection Layer for Stable Lithium Metal Anode, Advanced Energy Materials, v. 9(22), [1900858], https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201900858.
Liang, Z., K. Yan, G. Zhou, Z. Pei, J. Zhao, Y. Sun, J. Xie, Y. Li, Feifei Shi, Y. Liu, D. Lin, K. Liu, H. Wang, H. Wang, Y. Lu, and Y. Cui, (2019). Composite lithium electrode with mesoscale skeleton via simple mechanical deformation, Science Advances, v. 5 (3), [eaau5655], https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau5655.
Liu, N., G. Zhou, A. Yang, X. Yu, Feifei Shi, J. Sun, J. Zhang, B. Liu, C. L. Wu, X. Tao, Y. Sun, Y. Cui, and S. Chu, (2019). Direct electrochemical generation of supercooled sulfur microdroplets well below their melting temperature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 116 (3), pp. 765-770, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817286116.
Shi, Feifei and P. N. Ross, (2019). Solid Electrolyte Interphase in Lithium-Based Batteries, Inorganic Battery Materials, v. 359.
