| Jul 15, 2026 | The lab receives an NSF Energy Storage Engine award for ROC-BEAT (Rochester Battery Engineering and Training), a nine-institution regional battery workforce consortium. Prof. Tu leads the university tier. |
| Jul 09, 2026 | Invited talk at the U.S. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC: A General Framework for the Dendrite Issue in Mono/Multi-Valent Solid-State Batteries. |
| Jun 01, 2026 | NSF DMR–Ceramics funds Understanding the Granular Creeping Behavior during the Densification Processing of Ceramic Electrolytes in All-Solid-State Batteries — a four-year award seeded directly by the lab’s own granular-creep result. |
| May 01, 2026 | New paper in Nano Letters. Bage et al. show that lithium dendrites can be suppressed by making the electrolyte mechanically anisotropic, detouring Li transport rather than blocking it. Four of the six authors are CEW Lab trainees. |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Invited seminar at UC Davis, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Invited talk at the American Ceramic Society Spring Meeting, Bellevue, WA; and at Western University (Canada), MME, on 6 April. |
| Mar 22, 2026 | Invited talks at ACS Spring 2026 (Atlanta), UC Berkeley CEE (9 March), and the University of South Carolina (3 March). |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Invited seminar at Cornell University, MAE; and a technical seminar with the Nissan battery team on 20 January. |
| Feb 01, 2026 | New paper in Small Methods. Vazquez Mercado et al. identify granular creep as the mechanism controlling solid-electrolyte densification, using synchrotron tomography with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. |
| Dec 03, 2025 | Prof. Tu receives the MRS Early Career Distinguished Presenter award at MRS Fall 2025 in Boston, presenting Multiscale understanding of performance degradation in the composite cathode. |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Invited talk and session chair at the ECS Fall 2025 meeting, Chicago. |
| Oct 24, 2024 | Best Poster award at the NY-BEST Technology & Innovation Conference, alongside an invited talk. |
| Aug 28, 2024 | Technical exchange with Apple’s battery team on continuum modeling of lithium dendrites in solid-state storage. |
| May 01, 2024 | Prof. Tu is lead organizer of the Solid-State Battery Symposium at MRS Spring 2024 (Seattle), and organizes the Direct-CO₂ Capture Symposium at ACS Fall 2024 (Denver). |
| Jan 15, 2024 | New paper in Nature Communications: Effect of solid-electrolyte pellet density on failure of solid-state batteries (Diallo et al.), with the Ceder group at LBNL. |
| Sep 01, 2023 | The Army Research Office Young Investigator Program funds A General Solution for the Dendrite Issue in Mono/Multi-valent Solid-State Batteries. |
| Sep 01, 2022 | Prof. Tu is named a core PI of RIT’s Battery Development / Prototyping Center and the NanoPower Research Laboratory. |
| Aug 01, 2021 | The Clean Energy and Water Laboratory opens at RIT. The same year, Matter publishes Tu et al. on metal propagation in solid electrolytes driven by mixed ionic–electronic conduction — the result the lab’s program is built on. |