Shirley Meng
{{short description|Singaporean-American materials scientist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Ying Shirley Meng (孟穎）
| image = Shirley.jpg
| caption =
| alma_mater = Nanyang Technological University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| thesis_title = Combining Ab Initio Computation with Experiments for Designing/Understanding High Energy Density Electrode Materials for Advanced Lithium Batteries
| doctoral_advisor = Gerbrand Ceder
| workplaces = University of Florida
University of California, San Diego
University of Chicago
Argonne National Laboratory
| thesis_url = http://ceder.berkeley.edu/theses/2005_Shirley_Meng_Thesis.pdf
| thesis_year = 2005
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Hangzhou, China{{cn|date=September 2023}}
| nationality =
| fields = Energy storage
Battery
Material Characterization
Electrochemistry
Nanomaterials
| known_for = Energy storage and sustainability
| website = [https://lescmeng.ai https://lescmeng.ai]
[https://twitter.com/YingShirleyMen1 twitter]
| awards = Fellow of the Materials Research Society (2021)
}}
Ying Shirley Meng ({{zh|c=孟穎|p=Mèng Yǐng|s=|t=}}) is a Singaporean-American materials scientist and academic. She is a professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) chief scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.{{cite web|url=https://pme.uchicago.edu/news/shirley-meng-leader-energy-storage-research-joins-pme-argonne|title=Shirley Meng, leader in energy storage research, joins PME, Argonne|date=25 October 2021 |access-date=2022-05-23}}
Meng is the author and co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapter and six patents. She serves on the executive committee for battery division at the Electrochemical Society{{Cite web|url=https://www.electrochem.org/battery-division-officers|title=Battery Division Officers/Executive Committee}} and she is the Editor-in-Chief for MRS Energy & Sustainability.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mrs-energy-and-sustainability/editors-and-advisory-board|title=MRS Energy and Sustainability Editors|website=Cambridge Core|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}}{{Citation|title=New MRS Energy & Sustainability journal Editor Y. Shirley Meng|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcgxr2fmb3M|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}}
Education and career
Meng studied materials engineering at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science. She was a doctoral student in the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's largest international research initiative.{{Cite web|url=https://www.electrochem.org/ecs-blog/shirley-meng-becoming-an-engineer/|title=Shirley Meng: Becoming an Engineer|date=2019-02-28|website=ECS|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-25}} She earned her doctoral degree in materials science under the supervision of Gerbrand Ceder in 2005, after which she joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow.{{Cite web|url=https://mse.stanford.edu/events/shirley-meng|title=Shirley Meng {{!}} Materials Science and Engineering|website=mse.stanford.edu|access-date=2020-01-25}}
In 2008, Meng joined the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science. She moved to the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering{{Cite web |title=Faculty {{!}} Department of NanoEngineering |url=https://cne.ucsd.edu/fac |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=cne.ucsd.edu}} at University of California, San Diego in 2009,{{Cite web|url=https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/faculty/faculty_bios/index.sfe?fmp_recid=284|title=UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering|website=jacobsschool.ucsd.edu|access-date=2020-01-25}} where she also was a professor in the Materials Science Program.{{Cite web|url=http://mae.ucsd.edu/matsci/professors/1059|title=Shirley Meng {{!}} Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering|website=mae.ucsd.edu|access-date=2020-01-28}} She was the founding director of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center from 2015 to 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://deepdecarbon.ucsd.edu/people/meng.html|title=Ying Shirley Meng|website=deepdecarbon.ucsd.edu|access-date=2020-01-25}}{{Cite web|url=https://spec.ucsd.edu/index.php/research|title=Research {{!}} Sustainable Power and Energy Center|website=spec.ucsd.edu|access-date=2020-01-28}} In 2018, Meng was named the Zable Endowed Chair Professor in Energy Technologies.{{Cite web|url=https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/shirley_meng_named_inaugural_holder_of_uc_san_diego_zable_endowed_chair_in|title=Shirley Meng Named Inaugural Holder of UC San Diego Zable Endowed Chair in Energy Technologies|website=ucsdnews.ucsd.edu|access-date=2020-01-28}} She was also the inaugural director of Institute for Materials Discovery and Design at University of California, San Diego from 2019.{{Cite web|url=http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2938|title=UC San Diego launches Institute for Materials Discovery and Design|website=jacobsschool.ucsd.edu|access-date=2020-02-18}}
In 2022, Meng joined the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago as professor, as well as Argonne National Laboratory as chief scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS).{{cite web|url=https://pme.uchicago.edu/faculty/y-shirley-meng|title=Y. Shirley Meng|access-date=2022-05-23}}
Research
Meng's research focuses on investigating functional nano- and micro-scale materials for energy storage and conversion by combining advanced characterizations such as titration gas chromatography, cryo-EM, cryo-FIB, in situ CDXI, etc. and first-principles simulations. Her research includes lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, all-solid-state batteries, magnetic materials and third-generation solar cells.{{Cite web|url=http://smeng.ucsd.edu/|title=LESC|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-02}}{{Cite web|url=https://cmrr.ucsd.edu/research/faculty-profiles/meng.html|title=Shirley Meng|website=cmrr.ucsd.edu|access-date=2020-01-25}}{{Cite web|url=http://greenconnectionsradio.com/eco-battery-technologies-shirley-meng-u-c-san-diego-sustainable-power-energy-center/|title=Eco-Battery Technologies – Shirley Meng, U.C. San Diego, Sustainable Power & Energy Center|last=greenconnections|date=2017-10-14|website=Green Connections Radio|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-25}}{{Excessive citations inline|date=September 2020}}
Recently, Meng established the analytical method of titration gas chromatography to quantify the contribution of unreacted metallic Li to the total amount of inactive lithium for diagnosing the failure mechanism in lithium metal batteries.{{Cite web|url=https://physicsworld.com/a/what-really-weakens-lithium-battery-efficiency/|title=What really weakens lithium battery efficiency?|date=2019-09-06|website=Physics World|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-01-25}}
Her research work with her students has led to battery startups spinning out from her lab. One example is South 8 Technologies, a company that is commercializing liquefied gas electrolyte, developed as part of research by Cyrus Rustomji (UC San Diego PhD '15), that allows for lithium batteries to work at cold temperatures. {{Cite web|last=Labios|first=Liezel|date=2018-05-07|title=This Battery is Crazy|url=http://tritonmag.com/this-battery-is-crazy/|access-date=2021-02-27|website=Triton|language=en-US}}
Awards and honors
- 2002, Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Co. Pte. Ltd (SSMC) Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.benefunder.com/entityprint/node/314|title=Green Energy Lights the Future}}
- 2003, Graduate Student Award (Materials Research Society){{Cite web|url=https://www.mrs.org/gsa-past|title=Past Recipients {{!}} MRS Graduate Student Awards|website=www.mrs.org|access-date=2020-01-29}}
- 2008, Early Career Faculty Travel Award (The Electrochemical Society){{Cite web|url=https://www.electrochem.org/battery-division-travel-grants|title=Battery Division Travel Grants}}
- 2011, National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1057170|title=NSF Award Search: Award#1057170 - CAREER: Dynamic Phenomena in Complex Oxides During Electrochemical Processes|website=www.nsf.gov|access-date=2020-01-25}}
- 2013, Chancellor's Interdisciplinary Research Award {{Cite web|url=https://grad.ucsd.edu/financial/fellowships/funding-opportunties/chancellors-interdisciplinary-collaboratories.html#Requesting-a-Second-Year-of-Fun|title=Chancellor's Interdisciplinary Collaboratories|website=grad.ucsd.edu|access-date=2020-01-29}}
- 2014, Science Award Electrochemistry by BASF and Volkswagen{{Cite web|url=http://nanoengineering.ucsd.edu/node/72|title=Professor Shirley Meng receives "Science Award Electrochemistry" {{!}} NanoEngineering|website=nanoengineering.ucsd.edu|access-date=2020-01-29}}
- 2015, Frontier of Innovation Award{{Cite web|url=https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/frontiers_of_innovation_program_seeds_seven_multidisciplinary_projects|title='Frontiers of Innovation' Program Seeds Seven Multidisciplinary Projects on Campus|website=ucsdnews.ucsd.edu|access-date=2020-01-29}}
- 2016, Charles W. Tobias Award, Electrochemical Society{{Cite web|url=https://www.electrochem.org/young-investigator-award|title=Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award|website=ECS|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-29}}
- 2017, IUMRS-Singapore Young Scientist Research Award{{Cite web|url=http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2838|title=Y. Shirley Meng Named Editor-in-Chief of MRS Energy & Sustainability|website=jacobsschool.ucsd.edu|access-date=2020-01-29}}
- 2018, Elected Fellow of Electrochemical Society (ECS){{Cite web|url=https://www.electrochem.org/234/fellows|title=2018 Class of Fellows|website=ECS|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-25}}
- 2018, Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist{{Cite web|url=http://blavatnikawards.org/news/items/announcing-finalists-2018-blavatnik-national-awards-young-scientists/|title=Announcing the 2018 Blavatnik National Awards Finalists {{!}} Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists|website=blavatnikawards.org|access-date=2020-01-25}}
- 2018, American Chemical Society ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Young Investigator Award 2018, International Coalition for Energy Storage and Innovation (ICESI) Inaugural Young Career Award{{Cite web|url=https://axial.acs.org/2018/04/10/2018-acs-applied-materials-interfaces-young-investigator-award-winner-announced/|title=2018 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Young Investigator Award Winner Announced|date=2018-04-10|website=ACS Axial|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-25}}{{Cite web|url=http://icesi.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1|title=International Coalition for Energy Storage and Innovation (ICESI): Home|website=icesi.csp.escience.cn|access-date=2020-01-29}}
- 2019, Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist{{Cite web|url=http://blavatnikawards.org/honorees/national-finalists/|title=National Finalists {{!}} Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists|website=blavatnikawards.org|access-date=2020-01-25}}
- 2019, Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Excellence in Research in Science and Engineering{{Cite web|url=https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/faculty-celebrated-for-extraordinary-teaching-research-and-service|title=Faculty Celebrated for Extraordinary Teaching, Research and Service|website=ucsdnews.ucsd.edu|access-date=2020-01-29}}
- 2019, IBA2019 Research Award of International Battery Materials Association (IBA){{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/ecs1902/docs/2019-iba-full-mp-reduced|title=IBA 2019|website=Issuu|date=14 February 2019 |language=en|access-date=2020-01-25}}
- 2021, Fellow of the Materials Research Society{{cite web|url=https://www.mrs.org/careers-advancement/awards/spring-awards/mrs-fellows/list-of-mrs-fellows/2021|title=2021 MRS Fellows|access-date=2021-04-09}}
- 2022, Department of Energy (DOE): Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Award {{Cite web|url=https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-congratulates-2022-clean-energy-education-empowerment-award-winners|title=DOE Congratulates 2022 Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Award Winners }}
- 2022, Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Professional memberships
Electrochemical Society; Materials Research Society; American Chemical Society.{{Cite web|title=2018 Class of Fellows|url=https://www.electrochem.org/234/fellows/|access-date=2020-09-23|website=ECS|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=New MRS Energy & Sustainability Editor Y. Shirley Meng|url=https://materials.typepad.com/mrs_meeting_scene/2019/12/new-mrs-energy-sustainability-editor-y-shirley-meng-1.html|access-date=2020-09-23|website=MRS Meeting Scene}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite journal|last=Meng|first=Ying Shirley|date=2006-02-17|title=Electrodes with High Power and High Capacity for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries|journal=Science|volume=311|issue=5763|pages=977–980|doi=10.1126/science.1122152|pmid=16484487|bibcode=2006Sci...311..977K|hdl=10203/25023 |s2cid=23501791|hdl-access=free}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Meng|first=Ying Shirley|date=2009|title=First principles computational materials design for energy storage materials in lithium ion batteries|journal=Energy & Environmental Science|volume=2|issue=6|pages=589–609|doi=10.1039/B901825E}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Meng|first=Ying Shirley|date=2012-05-01|title=Recent progress in cathode materials research for advanced lithium ion batteries|journal=Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports|volume=73|issue=5–6|pages=51–65|doi=10.1016/j.mser.2012.05.003}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Rustomji|first1=Cyrus S.|last2=Yang|first2=Yangyuchen|last3=Kim|first3=Tae Kyoung|last4=Mac|first4=Jimmy|last5=Kim|first5=Young Jin|last6=Caldwell|first6=Elizabeth|last7=Chung|first7=Hyeseung|last8=Meng|first8=Y. Shirley|title=Liquefied gas electrolytes for electrochemical energy storage devices|journal=Science|date=30 June 2017|volume=356|issue=6345|pages=4263|doi=10.1126/science.aal4263|pmid=28619715|bibcode=2017Sci...356L4263R|doi-access=free}}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Fang |first1=Chengcheng |last2=Wang |first2=Xuefeng |last3=Meng |first3=Ying Shirley |date=2019 |title=Key Issues Hindering a Practical Lithium-Metal Anode |journal=Trends in Chemistry |language=en |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=152–158 |doi=10.1016/j.trechm.2019.02.015|s2cid=189728712 |doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal|last1=Fang|first1=Chengcheng|last2=Li|first2=Jinxing|last3=Zhang|first3=Minghao|last4=Zhang|first4=Yihui|last5=Yang|first5=Fan|last6=Lee|first6=Jungwoo Z.|last7=Lee|first7=Min-Han|last8=Alvarado|first8=Judith|last9=Schroeder|first9=Marshall A.|last10=Yang|first10=Yangyuchen|last11=Lu|first11=Bingyu|last12=Williams|first12=Nicholas|last13=Ceja|first13=Miguel|last14=Yang|first14=Li|last15=Cai|first15=Mei|last16=Gu|first16=Jing|last17=Xu|first17=Kang|last18=Wang|first18=Xuefeng|last19=Meng|first19=Ying Shirley|title=Quantifying inactive lithium in lithium metal batteries|journal=Nature|date=21 August 2019|volume=572|issue=7770|pages=511–515|doi=10.1038/s41586-019-1481-z|pmid=31435056|arxiv=1811.01029|bibcode=2019Natur.572..511F|s2cid=106324714}}
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