ASHOK S. MENON

Faraday Institution Visiting Research Fellowship, March 2024

• Six-month project to host a South American researcher to work on recovering capacity loss in Ni-rich NMC-graphite pouch cells for second-life applications

• Institution ECR Conference, Coventry (March, 2024)
• Synchrotron-Electrochemistry Workshop, Diamond Light Source, Oxford (March, 2024)
• Faraday Institution ECR Conference, Coventry (Oct, 2022)
• 33rd European Crystallography Meeting, Versailles, France (Aug, 2022)
• CONEXS Conference, Newcastle (March, 2022)

• Menon, A. S., Ogley, M. J. W., ..., & Piper, L. F. J. (2024). Metal–ligand redox in
  layered oxide cathodes for Li-ion Batteries. Under review.
• Menon, A. S., Ogley, M. J. W., ..., & Piper, L. F. J. (2024). Oxygen redox in alkali-ion
  battery cathodes. Annual Review of Materials Research, 54.
• Menon, A. S., Shah, N., ... & Piper, L. F. J. (2024). Quantifying electrochemical
  degradation in single-crystalline LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2–Graphite pouch cells through
  operando X-ray and postmortem investigations. PRX Energy, 3(1), 013004.
• Menon, A. S., Johnston, B. J., ... & Piper, L. F. J. (2023). Oxygen-redox activity
  in non-lithium-excess tungsten-doped LiNiO2 cathode. PRX Energy, 2(1), 013005.
• Genreith-Schriever, A. R., Banerjee, H., Menon, A. S., ..., & Morris, A. J. (2023).
  Oxygen hole formation controls stability in LiNiO2 cathodes. Joule, 7(7), 1623-1640
• Chien, Y. C., Liu, H., Menon, A. S., ..., & Lacey, M. J. (2023). Rapid determination of
  solid-state diffusion coefficients in Li-based batteries via intermittent current
  interruption method. Nature communications, 14(1), 2289.
• Menon, A. S., Khalil, S., ..., & Brant, W. R. (2022). Synthesis–structure relationships
  in Li -and Mn-rich layered oxides: phase evolution, superstructure ordering and
  stacking faults. Dalton Transactions, 51(11), 4435-4446.
• Menon, A. S., Ulusoy, S., ... & Brant, W. R. (2021). Synthetic pathway determines the
  nonequilibrium crystallography of Li-and Mn-rich layered oxide cathode materials.
  ACS Applied Energy Materials, 4(2), 1924-1935.
• Menon, A. S., Ojwang, D. O., ..., & Brant, W. R. (2020). Influence of synthesis routes
  on the crystallography, morphology, and electrochemistry of Li2MnO3. ACS applied
  materials & interfaces, 12(5), 5939-5950.
• Chien, Y. C., Menon, A. S., ..., & Lacey, M. J. (2019). Simultaneous monitoring of
  crystalline active materials and resistance evolution in lithium–sulfur batteries.
  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(3), 1449-1456.

Post-Doctoral Award, WMG (May 2025)