William Wang

I am a second-year undergraduate student at Northwestern University pursuing my B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering. I am largely interested in energy materials and electrochemical systems.

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Education

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

BS in Materials Science & Engineering

Sep 2024 - Jun 2028 (expected)

Relevant coursework: Thermodynamics of Materials, Phase Equilibria & Diffusion, Crystallography & Diffraction, Modeling & Simulation in MSE, Microstructural Dynamics, Solid State Electrochemistry

Research

I currently work in Prof. Sossina Haile's energy materials research group where I study the material chemistry of proton conducting solid acids. My recent work focuses on creating and characterizing solid solutions within the ternary M3H(SeO4)2 (M = Cs, K, Rb) system through electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, thermal gravimetric analysis, and X-ray diffraction experiments.

This summer I will join the Materials for Energy Conversion Group at the Swiss Federal Institute for Materials Science and Engineering (Empa) to develop carbon coatings to improve interfacial behavior in sodium solid-state batteries.

I previously worked with Prof. Robert Topper at Cooper Union where I conducted density functional theory and Monte Carlo simulations of HF clusters. I also developed Lennard-Jones parameters of noble gas clusters for TransRot, a molecular simulation software.

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