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Yan Zeng

@YanHelenZENG

Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University//Lab Automation//Energy Storage Materials//Process Engineering

 Tallahassee, FL
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Joined August 2019
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I am honored to receive the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement award from ORAU. Grateful for working with amazing students and colleagues at FSU!
FSU Chemistry & Biochemistry (@ChemistryFsu) profile pictureFSU Chemistry & Biochemistry@ChemistryFsu23 May 2025
Congratulations to @ChemistryFsu assistant professor Yan Zeng, who is one of 36 researchers nationwide to win a 2025 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from @orau! For the latest news on her cutting-edge clean energy research, visit: fla.st/NOJ7KT01
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We can determine composition and concentration of solutions from photos of dried drops! Our latest paper in @digital_rsc describes how RODI 🤖 collects a 23,500-image library and ML/AI performs analyses doi.org/10.1039/D4DD00333K
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Exciting news! Learn more about assistant professor Yan Zeng's innovative work ⬇️
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@FSUartssciences18 Feb 2025
Yan Zeng of @ChemistryFsu is part of an @ENERGY-funded research consortium developing a new electric vehicle battery to boost efficiency and reduce reliance on rare materials. Learn how sodium-ion batteries could power the next gen of electric vehicles ➡️ fla.st/1ZZKACYT
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Our team - The Zeng Lab at @ChemistryFsu - is proud to be part of the LENS consortium 🦾
Argonne National Lab (@argonne) profile pictureArgonne National Lab@argonne21 Nov 2024
Powering the future: Argonne has been awarded $50 million over the next five years to lead the Low-cost Earth-abundant Na-ion (LENS) consortium, aiming to develop high-energy, durable sodium-ion batteries with safe and abundant materials. Learn more - bit.ly/4fTf3Ws
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Time for new group photo 📸@ChemistryFsu
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🚀 Just launched: AlabOS –a Python-based, reconfigurable workflow management framework for autonomous labs. 🧪🤖 Showcased in A-Lab with 3500+ samples synthesized in 1.5 years! 🌟 Great work by @yuxing_fei, @RendyBernardus, and @rekumar_! Read here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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If you would like to share your work on sodium-based energy storage in 2025 MRS Spring Meetings in Seattle, submit your abstract to symposium EN02-Sodium-Based Energy Storage. Abstract submissions are now open until October 17th! mrs.org/meetings-events/spri…
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Feeling great to be part of a lab where prof, graduate students, undergrads, high school students, and robots are working together to design and make materials that are interesting and could also be impactful 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🤖@fsuyoungscholar @ChemistryFsu
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Honored to be part of the Scialog meeting on automating chemical labs. It is indeed an inspirational and intriguing experience.
Research Corporation for Science Advancement (@RCSA1) profile pictureResearch Corporation for Science Advancement@RCSA114 Apr 2024
1st meeting of #Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories, cosponsored by RCSA, @BeckmanFnd, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and Walder Foundation, ends today with proposals to accelerate innovation in basic research through advances in automated instrumentation & AI.
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In a 2022 Science study, researchers found that intentionally introducing chemical disorder to inorganic solid electrolytes can increase ionic conductivity by orders of magnitude, which can improve battery performance. Read more on #NationalBatteryDay: scim.ag/5Uy
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Pleased to share that our comment to @NatureComms concerning the promises and challenge of high entropy battery materials with Prof. Yan Zeng @YanHelenZENG is online today. Check it out with the link below and stay tuned for more updates. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
The rise of high-entropy battery materials

The rise of high-entropy battery materials

Nature Communications - The emergence of high-entropy materials has inspired the exploration of novel materials in diverse technologies. In electrochemical energy storage, high-entropy design has...

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Check out our latest work on Selective formation of metastable polymorphs in solid-state synthesis | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… We introduce a framework that uses both reaction energy and surface energy for effective polymorph selection. @NJSzymanski @cedergroup
Selective formation of metastable polymorphs in solid-state synthesis

Selective formation of metastable polymorphs in solid-state synthesis

Metastable polymorphs with low surface energy are made accessible by reactions with large thermodynamic driving force.

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Developing new materials for applications like superconductors is notoriously time-consuming. But with AI trained on data from @BerkeleyLab's Materials Project, @GoogleDeepMind predicted the structures of 2 million new materials, as covered in @TIME: time.com/6340681/deepmind-gn…
Google DeepMind AI Breakthrough Could Help Battery and Chip Development

Google DeepMind AI Breakthrough Could Help Battery and Chip Development

Researchers at Google DeepMind have used AI to predict the structures of more than 2 million new materials.

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👉 Major AI progress out of @BerkeleyLab with Google To transform the future of superconductors, power systems, electric vehicles, and other clean energy tech — we need new materials. A new algorithm to predict them + an AI-driven robotic lab to make them aims to do just that.
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@BerkeleyLab29 Nov 2023
Researchers use our Materials Project to develop new materials for future tech - think better batteries or solar cells. With new #materials calculated by @GoogleDeepMind, they’ll have even more data to work with. @Nature #AI #FutureTech The latest ⬇️ newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/11/2…
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@Nature29 Nov 2023
ChatGPT for chemistry: AI and robots join forces to build new materials go.nature.com/3sUHrET
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Thrilled to share the performance of our A-lab in its initial materials discovery task, published in @Nature today. Can’t wait to discuss this work and exchange new ideas with experts in lab automation at the upcoming #Scialog and #ACSSpring2024 nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
An autonomous laboratory for the accelerated synthesis of inorganic materials

An autonomous laboratory for the accelerated synthesis of inorganic materials

Nature - An autonomous laboratory, the A-Lab, is presented that combines computations, literature data, machine learning and active learning, which discovered and synthesized 41 novel compounds...

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In A-lab, we discover new materials autonomously and fast. Excited to see our paper published on Nature today! Really honored to be a member of A-lab team @cedergroup. Thanks to @NJSzymanski and @YanHelenZENG for leading the project! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
An autonomous laboratory for the accelerated synthesis of inorganic materials

An autonomous laboratory for the accelerated synthesis of inorganic materials

Nature - An autonomous laboratory, the A-Lab, is presented that combines computations, literature data, machine learning and active learning, which discovered and synthesized 41 novel compounds...

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50+ Fellows have been selected for the 1st meeting of a 3-year #Scialog co-sponsored by RCSA & @BeckmanFnd. It aims to accelerate innovation in basic research & broaden access in the chemical enterprise through advances in automated instrumentation & AI. bit.ly/46xRz59
Fellows Selected for New Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories

Fellows Selected for New Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories

More than 50 early career researchers have been selected as Fellows for the first meeting of a three-year initiative to accelerate innovation in basic research and broaden access within the chemica…

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Congrats to @NJSzymanski and Pragnay Nevatia! Autonomous inorganic synthesis is challenging, but here is one important step forward.
Nathan Szymanski (@NJSzymanski) profile pictureNathan Szymanski@NJSzymanski31 Oct 2023
Our method to automate the optimization of solid-state synthesis is out now in @NatureComms! It uses DFT data but also learns from experiments to find the best precursors for a given material. We hope this can help guide future autonomous platforms 🤖 😃 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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A-Lab is a new facility at our Lab that uses #robots and #ArtificialIntelligence to discover novel materials for future technologies. 🦾 Here are some quick facts! ⬇️ newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/04/1… #AI
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