MembersYirui (Arlene) Zhang

Yirui (Arlene) Zhang’s research focuses on energy storage/conversion and environmental/disease monitoring, both understanding the fundamental mechanisms of electrochemical interfaces and electrokinetics and developing efficient materials and devices. As a Schmidt Science Fellow at Stanford, she is researching surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for bacterial pathogen identification by combining electrokinetics and machine learning. She is also developing in situ spectroscopy for plasmonic photocatalysis toward revealing reaction mechanisms. She received her PhD from MIT on probing and understanding the interfacial molecular structures during (electro)chemical reactions, including those in electrocatalysis and Li-ion batteries.

Zhang, Y., Katayama, Y., Tatara, R., Giordano, L., Yu, Y., Fraggedakis, D., Sun, J. G., Maglia, F., Jung, R., Bazant, M.Z., Shao-Horn, Y. (2020) Revealing electrolyte oxidation via carbonate dehydrogenation on Ni-based oxides in Li-ion batteries by in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Energy & Environmental Science., 13(1), 183-199.

Wang, T.*, Zhang, Y.*, Huang, B., Cai, B., Rao, R., Giordano, L., Sun, S-G., Shao-Horn, Y. (2021) Enhancing Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis by Tuning Interfacial Hydrogen Bonds. Nature Catalysis., 4, 753–762.