Prof. Feng Lin joined Brown’s School of Engineering in July 2025 after nine years of teaching and research in the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Tech. His research interests include rechargeable batteries, low-temperature materials manufacturing, and interface characterization and optimization. He received his PhD degree in Materials Science from Colorado School of Mines in 2012 (with Ryan Richards) and bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Tianjin University in 2009. He worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (with Marca Doeff) and QuantumScape prior to starting his independent academic career in 2016. Our new Brown website is under construction. Please refer to our old website here: https://thelinlabatvt.weebly.com/
| Kuai, Chunguang, Liu, Liping, Hu, Anyang, Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Yuxin, Xia, Dawei, Nordlund, Dennis, Sokaras, Dimosthenis, Decarolis, Donato, Gianolio, Diego, Xin, Hongliang, Li, Luxi, Lin, Feng. "Dissolved Fe species enable a cooperative solid–molecular mechanism for the oxygen evolution reaction on NiFe-based catalysts." Nature Catalysis, vol. 8, no. 6, 2025, pp. 523-535. |
| Xiao, Jie, Cao, Xia, Gridley, Bernard, Golden, William, Ji, Yuchen, Johnson, Stacey, Lu, Dongping, Lin, Feng, Liu, Jun, Liu, Yijin, Liu, Zhao, Ramesh, Hemanth Neelgund, Shi, Feifei, Schrooten, Jeremy, Sims, Mary J., Sun, Shijing, Shao, Yuyan, Vaisman, Alon, Yang, Jihui, Whittingham, M. Stanley. "From Mining to Manufacturing: Scientific Challenges and Opportunities behind Battery Production." Chemical Reviews, vol. 125, no. 13, 2025, pp. 6397-6431. |
| "Heterogeneities across electrode|polymer electrolyte interfaces contribute to battery failure." Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 20, no. 6, 2025, pp. 723-724. |
| Min, Jungki, Bak, Seong-Min, Zhang, Yuxin, Yuan, Mingyu, Pietra, Nicholas F., Russell, Joshua A., Deng, Zhifei, Xia, Dawei, Tao, Lei, Du, Yonghua, Xiong, Hui, Li, Ling, Madsen, Louis A., Lin, Feng. "Investigating the effect of heterogeneities across the electrode|multiphase polymer electrolyte interfaces in high-potential lithium batteries." Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 20, no. 6, 2025, pp. 787-797. |
| Huang, Weibo, Seok, Changgyu, Tao, Lei, Shi, Chenguang, Yao, Junyi, Xia, Dawei, Promi, Anika Tabassum, Meyer, Katelyn, Yang, Dali, Liu, Sizhan, Hwang, Sooyeon, Nordlund, Dennis, Lin, Feng. "Mitigating Cyclable Li‐Ion Inventory Loss in Full Cells with Mn‐Rich Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes." Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 15, no. 33, 2025. |
| "Mobile co-catalysts at the solid–liquid interface in the oxygen evolution reaction." Nature Catalysis, vol. 8, no. 6, 2025, pp. 521-522. |
| Tao, Lei, Zhang, Hanrui, Shah, Sameep Rajubhai, Yang, Xixian, Lai, Jianwei, Guo, Yanjun, Russell, Joshua A., Xia, Dawei, Min, Jungki, Huang, Weibo, Shi, Chenguang, Liang, Zhaohui, Yu, Deyang, Hwang, Sooyeon, Xiong, Hui, Madsen, Louis A., Zhao, Kejie, Shi, Feifei, Lin, Feng. "Revealing the roles of the solid–electrolyte interphase in designing stable, fast-charging, low-temperature Li-ion batteries." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 122, no. 13, 2025. |
| Sun, Huabin, Yang, Zhijie, Ghosh, Rupayan, Hwang, Sooyeon, Hu, Anyang, Zhang, Yuxin, Liu, Jue, Sun, Chengjun, Sainio, Sami, Nordlund, Dennis, Xiao, Xianghui, Lin, Feng. "Thermal processing to modulate surface chemistry and bulk charge distribution in nickel-rich layered lithium positive electrodes." Nature Communications, vol. 16, no. 1, 2025. |
| Xia, Dawei, Yao, Junyi, Shi, Chenguang, Wang, Qian, Seok, Changgyu, Olayiwola, Afolabi, Huang, Weibo, Nordlund, Dennis, Chen, Si Athena, Sun, Cheng‐Jun, Li, Luxi, Hou, Dewen, Quan, Lina, Liu, Yuzi, Xiong, Hui, Lin, Feng. "Toward Stable, High‐Energy, Partially Disordered Mn‐Rich Spinel Cathodes by Revealing and Mitigating Surface Degradation." Advanced Materials, vol. 37, no. 34, 2025. |
| Xia, Dawei, Tao, Lei, Hou, Dong, Hu, Anyang, Sainio, Sami, Nordlund, Dennis, Sun, Chengjun, Xiao, Xianghui, Li, Luxi, Huang, Haibo, Lin, Feng. "A Green, Fire‐Retarding Ether Solvent for Sustainable High‐Voltage Li‐Ion Batteries at Standard Salt Concentration." Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 14, no. 38, 2024. |
| Promi, Anika, Meyer, Katelyn, Ghosh, Rupayan, Lin, Feng. "Advancing electric mobility with lithium-ion batteries: A materials and sustainability perspective." MRS Bulletin, vol. 49, no. 7, 2024, pp. 697-707. |
| Xiao, Jie, Adelstein, Nicole, Bi, Yujing, Bian, Wenjuan, Cabana, Jordi, Cobb, Corie L., Cui, Yi, Dillon, Shen J., Doeff, Marca M., Islam, Saiful M., Leung, Kevin, Li, Mengya, Lin, Feng, Liu, Jun, Luo, Hongmei, Marschilok, Amy C., Meng, Ying Shirley, Qi, Yue, Sahore, Ritu, Sprenger, Kayla G., Tenent, Robert C., Toney, Michael F., Tong, Wei, Wan, Liwen F., Wang, Chongmin, Weitzner, Stephen E., Wu, Bingbin, Xu, Yaobin. "Assessing cathode–electrolyte interphases in batteries." Nature Energy, vol. 9, no. 12, 2024, pp. 1463-1473. |
| Hou, Dong, Liu, Jue, Xu, Zhengrui, Yang, Zhijie, Xiao, Xianghui, Lin, Feng. "Cross-length-scale investigation reveals the spatial thermo-chemical dynamics hidden in Ni-rich layered Li-ion cathodes." Matter, vol. 7, no. 2, 2024, pp. 640-654. |
| Mu, Linqin, Hou, Dong, Foley, Emily E., Dai, Minyi, Zhang, Jin, Jiang, Zhisen, Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, Fu, Yanbao, Ma, Lu, Hu, Enyuan, Sainio, Sami, Nordlund, Dennis, Liu, Jue, Hu, Jia-Mian, Liu, Yijin, Clément, Raphaële J., Lin, Feng. "Revealing the Chemical and Structural Complexity of Electrochemical Ion Exchange in Layered Oxide Materials." Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146, no. 39, 2024, pp. 26916-26925. |
| Xia, Dawei, Jeong, Heonjae, Hou, Dewen, Tao, Lei, Li, Tianyi, Knight, Kristin, Hu, Anyang, Kamphaus, Ethan P., Nordlund, Dennis, Sainio, Sami, Liu, Yuzi, Morris, John R., Xu, Wenqian, Huang, Haibo, Li, Luxi, Xiong, Hui, Cheng, Lei, Lin, Feng. "Self-terminating, heterogeneous solid–electrolyte interphase enables reversible Li–ether cointercalation in graphite anodes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 121, no. 5, 2024. |
| Tao, Lei, Xia, Dawei, Sittisomwong, Poom, Zhang, Hanrui, Lai, Jianwei, Hwang, Sooyeon, Li, Tianyi, Ma, Bingyuan, Hu, Anyang, Min, Jungki, Hou, Dong, Shah, Sameep Rajubhai, Zhao, Kejie, Yang, Guang, Zhou, Hua, Li, Luxi, Bai, Peng, Shi, Feifei, Lin, Feng. "Solvent-Mediated, Reversible Ternary Graphite Intercalation Compounds for Extreme-Condition Li-Ion Batteries." Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146, no. 24, 2024, pp. 16764-16774. |
| Xia, Dawei, Kamphaus, Ethan Phillip, Hu, Anyang, Hwang, Sooyeon, Tao, Lei, Sainio, Sami, Nordlund, Dennis, Fu, Yanbao, Huang, Haibo, Cheng, Lei, Lin, Feng. "Design Criteria of Dilute Ether Electrolytes toward Reversible and Fast Intercalation Chemistry of Graphite Anode in Li-Ion Batteries." ACS Energy Letters, vol. 8, no. 3, 2023, pp. 1379-1389. |
| Li, Tangyuan, Tao, Lei, Xu, Lin, Meng, Taotao, Clifford, Bryson Callie, Li, Shuke, Zhao, Xinpeng, Rao, Jiancun, Lin, Feng, Hu, Liangbing. "Direct and Rapid High‐Temperature Upcycling of Degraded Graphite." Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 33, no. 43, 2023. |
| Zhang, Yuxin, Hu, Anyang, Xia, Dawei, Hwang, Sooyeon, Sainio, Sami, Nordlund, Dennis, Michel, F. Marc, Moore, Robert B., Li, Luxi, Lin, Feng. "Operando characterization and regulation of metal dissolution and redeposition dynamics near battery electrode surface." Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 18, no. 7, 2023, pp. 790-797. |
| Tao, Lei, Russell, Joshua A., Xia, Dawei, Ma, Bingyuan, Hwang, Sooyeon, Yang, Zhijie, Hu, Anyang, Zhang, Yuxin, Sittisomwong, Poom, Yu, Deyang, Deck, Paul A., Madsen, Louis A., Huang, Haibo, Xiong, Hui, Bai, Peng, Xu, Kang, Lin, Feng. "Reversible Switch in Charge Storage Enabled by Selective Ion Transport in Solid Electrolyte Interphase." Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 145, no. 30, 2023, pp. 16538-16547. |
| Tao, Lei, Sittisomwong, Poom, Ma, Bingyuan, Hu, Anyang, Xia, Dawei, Hwang, Sooyeon, Huang, Haibo, Bai, Peng, Lin, Feng. "Tailoring solid-electrolyte interphase and solvation structure for subzero temperature, fast-charging, and long-cycle-life sodium-ion batteries." Energy Storage Materials, vol. 55, 2023, pp. 826-835. |
| de Vasconcelos, Luize Scalco, Xu, Rong, Xu, Zhengrui, Zhang, Jin, Sharma, Nikhil, Shah, Sameep Rajubhai, Han, Jiaxiu, He, Xiaomei, Wu, Xianyang, Sun, Hong, Hu, Shan, Perrin, Madison, Wang, Xiaokang, Liu, Yijin, Lin, Feng, Cui, Yi, Zhao, Kejie. "Chemomechanics of Rechargeable Batteries: Status, Theories, and Perspectives." Chemical Reviews, vol. 122, no. 15, 2022, pp. 13043-13107. |
| Li, Jizhou, Sharma, Nikhil, Jiang, Zhisen, Yang, Yang, Monaco, Federico, Xu, Zhengrui, Hou, Dong, Ratner, Daniel, Pianetta, Piero, Cloetens, Peter, Lin, Feng, Zhao, Kejie, Liu, Yijin. "Dynamics of particle network in composite battery cathodes." Science, vol. 376, no. 6592, 2022, pp. 517-521. |
| Hou, Dong, Xu, Zhengrui, Yang, Zhijie, Kuai, Chunguang, Du, Zhijia, Sun, Cheng-Jun, Ren, Yang, Liu, Jue, Xiao, Xianghui, Lin, Feng. "Effect of the grain arrangements on the thermal stability of polycrystalline nickel-rich lithium-based battery cathodes." Nature Communications, vol. 13, no. 1, 2022. |
| Zhang, Yuxin, Hu, Anyang, Liu, Jue, Xu, Zhengrui, Mu, Linqin, Sainio, Sami, Nordlund, Dennis, Li, Luxi, Sun, Cheng‐Jun, Xiao, Xianghui, Liu, Yijin, Lin, Feng. "Investigating Particle Size‐Dependent Redox Kinetics and Charge Distribution in Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes." Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 32, no. 17, 2022. |
| Hu, Anyang, Zhang, Yuxin, Yang, Fan, Hwang, Sooyeon, Sainio, Sami, Nordlund, Dennis, Maxey, Evan, Dai, Qilin, Gu, Jing, Li, Luxi, Lin, Feng. "Manipulating Interfacial Dissolution–Redeposition Dynamics to Resynthesize Electrode Surface Chemistry." ACS Energy Letters, vol. 7, no. 8, 2022, pp. 2588-2594. |
| Spence, Stephanie L., Hu, Anyang, Jiang, Meng, Xu, Zhengrui, Yang, Zhijie, Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, Li, Luxi, Chu, Yong S., Xiao, Xianghui, Huang, Xiaojing, Lin, Feng. "Mapping Lattice Distortions in LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 Cathode Materials." ACS Energy Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, 2022, pp. 690-695. |
| Mu, Linqin, Zhang, Jin, Xu, Yahong, Wei, Chenxi, Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, Nordlund, Dennis, Liu, Yijin, Lin, Feng. "Resolving Charge Distribution for Compositionally Heterogeneous Battery Cathode Materials." Nano Letters, vol. 22, no. 3, 2022, pp. 1278-1286. |
| Hou, Dong, Han, Jiaxiu, Geng, Chenxi, Xu, Zhengrui, AlMarzooqi, Modhi M., Zhang, Jin, Yang, Zhijie, Min, Jungki, Xiao, Xianghui, Borkiewicz, Olaf, Wiaderek, Kamila, Liu, Yijin, Zhao, Kejie, Lin, Feng. "Surface coating by mechanofusion modulates bulk charging pathways and battery performance of Ni-rich layered cathodes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119, no. 49, 2022. |
| Yang, Zhijie, Huang, Haibo, Lin, Feng. "Sustainable Electric Vehicle Batteries for a Sustainable World: Perspectives on Battery Cathodes, Environment, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Life Cycle, and Policy." Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 12, no. 26, 2022. |
| Sun, Huabin, Hu, Anyang, Spence, Stephanie, Kuai, Chunguang, Hou, Dong, Mu, Linqin, Liu, Jue, Li, Luxi, Sun, Chengjun, Sainio, Sami, Nordlund, Dennis, Luo, Wei, Huang, Yunhui, Lin, Feng. "Tailoring Disordered/Ordered Phases to Revisit the Degradation Mechanism of High‐Voltage LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 Spinel Cathode Materials." Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 32, no. 21, 2022. |
| Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, McGuigan, Scott, Li, Shaofeng, Gao, Lina, Hou, Dong, Yang, Zhijie, Xu, Zhengrui, Lee, Sang-Jun, Sun, Cheng-Jun, Liu, Jue, Huang, Xiaojing, Xiao, Xianghui, Chu, Yong, Sainio, Sami, Nordlund, Dennis, Kong, Xueqian, Liu, Yijin, Lin, Feng. "Chemical Modulation of Local Transition Metal Environment Enables Reversible Oxygen Redox in Mn-Based Layered Cathodes." ACS Energy Letters, vol. 6, no. 8, 2021, pp. 2882-2890. |
| Lin, Feng, Zhao, Kejie, Liu, Yijin. "Heterogeneous Reaction Activities and Statistical Characteristics of Particle Cracking in Battery Electrodes." ACS Energy Letters, vol. 6, no. 11, 2021, pp. 4065-4070. |
| Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, Lin, Feng. "Oxygen Redox Chemistry in Rechargeable Li-Ion and Na-Ion Batteries." Matter, vol. 4, no. 2, 2021, pp. 490-527. |
| Kuai, Chunguang, Xi, Cong, Hu, Anyang, Zhang, Yan, Xu, Zhengrui, Nordlund, Dennis, Sun, Cheng-Jun, Cadigan, Christopher A., Richards, Ryan M., Li, Luxi, Dong, Cun-Ku, Du, Xi-Wen, Lin, Feng. "Revealing the Dynamics and Roles of Iron Incorporation in Nickel Hydroxide Water Oxidation Catalysts." Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 143, no. 44, 2021, pp. 18519-18526. |
| Zheng, Xuerong, Xu, Zhengrui, Li, Shaofeng, Zhang, Yuxin, Zhang, Jinfeng, Kuai, Chunguang, Tao, Lei, Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, Zhang, Yan, Lee, Sang-Jun, Sun, Cheng-Jun, Li, Luxi, Hu, Wenbin, Nordlund, Dennis, Liu, Jue, Liu, Yijin, Lin, Feng. "Reversible Mn/Cr dual redox in cation-disordered Li-excess cathode materials for stable lithium ion batteries." Acta Materialia, vol. 212, 2021, pp. 116935. |
| Xu, Zhengrui, Jiang, Zhisen, Kuai, Chunguang, Xu, Rong, Qin, Changdong, Zhang, Yan, Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, Wei, Chenxi, Nordlund, Dennis, Sun, Cheng-Jun, Xiao, Xianghui, Du, Xi-Wen, Zhao, Kejie, Yan, Pengfei, Liu, Yijin, Lin, Feng. "Charge distribution guided by grain crystallographic orientations in polycrystalline battery materials." Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020. |
| Xu, Zhengrui, Hou, Dong, Kautz, David J., Liu, Wenjun, Xu, Ruqing, Xiao, Xianghui, Lin, Feng. "Charging Reactions Promoted by Geometrically Necessary Dislocations in Battery Materials Revealed by In Situ Single‐Particle Synchrotron Measurements." Advanced Materials, vol. 32, no. 37, 2020. |
| Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, Chen, Wei-Ying, Mu, Linqin, Xu, Zhengrui, Xiao, Ziqi, Li, Meimei, Bai, Xian-Ming, Lin, Feng. "Defect and structural evolution under high-energy ion irradiation informs battery materials design for extreme environments." Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020. |
| Kuai, Chunguang, Xu, Zhengrui, Xi, Cong, Hu, Anyang, Yang, Zhijie, Zhang, Yan, Sun, Cheng-Jun, Li, Luxi, Sokaras, Dimosthenis, Dong, Cunku, Qiao, Shi-Zhang, Du, Xi-Wen, Lin, Feng. "Phase segregation reversibility in mixed-metal hydroxide water oxidation catalysts." Nature Catalysis, vol. 3, no. 9, 2020, pp. 743-753. |
| Yang, Zhijie, Mu, Linqin, Hou, Dong, Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, Xu, Zhengrui, Liu, Jue, Nordlund, Dennis, Sun, Cheng‐Jun, Xiao, Xianghui, Lin, Feng. "Probing Dopant Redistribution, Phase Propagation, and Local Chemical Changes in the Synthesis of Layered Oxide Battery Cathodes." Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020. |
| Spence, Stephanie L., Xu, Zhengrui, Sainio, Sami, Nordlund, Dennis, Lin, Feng. "Tuning the Morphology and Electronic Properties of Single-Crystal LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4−δ: Exploring the Influence of LiCl–KCl Molten Salt Flux Composition and Synthesis Temperature." Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 59, no. 15, 2020, pp. 10591-10603. |
| Mu, Linqin, Zhang, Rui, Kan, Wang Hay, Zhang, Yan, Li, Luxi, Kuai, Chunguang, Zydlewski, Benjamin, Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, Sun, Cheng-Jun, Sainio, Sami, Avdeev, Maxim, Nordlund, Dennis, Xin, Huolin L., Lin, Feng. "Dopant Distribution in Co-Free High-Energy Layered Cathode Materials." Chemistry of Materials, vol. 31, no. 23, 2019, pp. 9769-9776. |
| Mu, Linqin, Feng, Xu, Kou, Ronghui, Zhang, Yan, Guo, Hao, Tian, Chixia, Sun, Cheng‐Jun, Du, Xi‐Wen, Nordlund, Dennis, Xin, Huolin L., Lin, Feng. "Deciphering the Cathode–Electrolyte Interfacial Chemistry in Sodium Layered Cathode Materials." Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 8, no. 34, 2018. |
| Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, Xu, Yahong, Cheng, Hao, Shi, Qianli, Kou, Ronghui, Mu, Linqin, Liu, Qi, Xia, Sihao, Xiao, Xianghui, Sun, Cheng-Jun, Sokaras, Dimosthenis, Nordlund, Dennis, Zheng, Jin-Cheng, Liu, Yijin, Lin, Feng. "Empowering multicomponent cathode materials for sodium ion batteries by exploring three-dimensional compositional heterogeneities." Energy & Environmental Science, vol. 11, no. 9, 2018, pp. 2496-2508. |
| Mu, Linqin, Lin, Ruoqian, Xu, Rong, Han, Lili, Xia, Sihao, Sokaras, Dimosthenis, Steiner, James D., Weng, Tsu-Chien, Nordlund, Dennis, Doeff, Marca M., Liu, Yijin, Zhao, Kejie, Xin, Huolin L., Lin, Feng. "Oxygen Release Induced Chemomechanical Breakdown of Layered Cathode Materials." Nano Letters, vol. 18, no. 5, 2018, pp. 3241-3249. |
| Mu, Linqin, Yuan, Qingxi, Tian, Chixia, Wei, Chenxi, Zhang, Kai, Liu, Jin, Pianetta, Piero, Doeff, Marca M., Liu, Yijin, Lin, Feng. "Propagation topography of redox phase transformations in heterogeneous layered oxide cathode materials." Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | PhD | Colorado School of Mines |
| 2011 | MS | Colorado School of Mines |
| 2009 | BS | Tianjin University (天津大学) |
Co-founder and CTO, Fermi Energy, Inc.
Non-paid Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech
