The Zeng Research Lab develops innovative materials for clean energy technologies and chemical processes for critical energy minerals by integrating materials synthesis, characterization, lab automation, artificial intelligence, and thermodynamic modeling.
Group Updates
Feb. 2025, The Zeng Lab paper on autonomous laboratories is published in Nature Computational Science - Check it out through the link 📃
Nov. 2024, Welcome graduate students (Evelyn, Xiaozhao, Seth, Nat, Brandon) and a new postdoc (Dr. Tong Zhao) to the Zeng Lab!
Oct. 2024, The Zeng Lab paper on ionic conductors is published in Advanced Energy Materials - Check it out through the link 📑
Sept. 2024, The Zeng Group and multiple rotating students set up a robotic liquid handler, named Circe (name credit: Elena). Circe has started to make materials 🧙🪄
June 2024, Welcome Josh, Tommy, and Zoe, high school students from the Young Scholars Program, joining us for summer research. They will be participating in lab automation and materials synthesis projects.
May 2024, Welcome Kayla to the Zeng group!
April 2024, Dr. Zeng was selected as a Scialog Fellow on Automating Chemical Laboratories. She attended the conference in Tucson.
March 2024, Dr. Zeng gave invited talks at the ACS Spring Meetings, Cornell MSE departmental seminar, and the ACerS-MRS Virtual Workshop.
March 2024, Elena, Ajay, and Emily synthesized their first samples 🧪
March 2024, Our first robot arm is set to run 🤖
Feb. 2024, Welcome Emily to the Zeng group!
Jan. 2024, Welcome Elena, Ajay, and Yufang, to the Zeng group!
Jan. 2024, Dr. Zeng started as an Assistant Professor at Florida State University
Openings: The Zeng group has Ph.D. and postdoctoral positions available. Interested in joining us?
Send emails to Dr. Zeng for more information (zeng@chem.fsu.edu).
