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Dr Dongxun Lyu studied Chemistry (BSc) at Imperial College London. She then moved to the University of Cambridge, where she completed both a MPhil and a DPhil degree under the supervision of Prof Dame Clare Grey at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.
Dr Dongxun Lyu's research interests centre on understanding energy storage mechanisms in advanced materials using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. She is particularly interested in how ions adsorb at electrode–electrolyte interfaces and how they migrate through the bulk electrolyte between electrodes, processes that are critical to improving energy storage technologies. During her PhD, she developed an integrated approach combining NMR spectroscopy with computational simulations to quantify ion adsorption in porous carbon, a common electrode material in fast-charging supercapacitors. She then extended this method to investigate ion interactions in soft, conductive polymers, which are promising electrode materials for wearable electronics due to their adaptability to soft tissues.At St John’s College, she looks forward to advancing this work by exploring how molecular microstructures influence ion transport pathways in conducting polymers using NMR spectroscopy. Her goal is to establish structure–property relationships to guide the molecular design of next-generation soft conducting materials.
Lyu, Dongxun, Yanting Jin, Pieter C. M. M. Magusin, Simone Sturniolo, Evan Wenbo Zhao, Shunsuke Yamamoto, Scott T Keene, George G Malliaras, and Clare P Grey. 2023. “Operando NMR Electrochemical Gating Studies of Ion Dynamics in PEDOT:PSS.” Nature Materials 22 (6): 746–53. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01524-1.
Lyu, Dongxun, Katharina Märker, Yuning Zhou, Evan Wenbo Zhao, Anna B Gunnarsdóttir, Samuel P Niblett, Alexander C Forse, and Clare P Grey. 2024. “Understanding Sorption of Aqueous Electrolytes in Porous Carbon by NMR Spectroscopy.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (14): 9897–9910. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c14807.
Liu, Xinyu, Dongxun Lyu, Céline Merlet, Matthew, Xiao Hua, Zhen Xu, Clare P Grey, and Alexander C Forse. 2024. “Structural Disorder Determines Capacitance in Nanoporous Carbons.” Science 384 (6693): 321–25. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn6242.
