Ruocun (John) Wang

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Dr. Ruocun (John) Wang received his B.S. from Purdue University and Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, both in Materials Science and Engineering. Before joining UNT, he was a research associate at the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University. His research focuses on the interplay between structure and electrochemical properties in transition metal oxides and two-dimensional transition metal carbides (MXenes) for energy storage applications. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Electrochemical Society (ECS) 2023 Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship, Cotswold Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and ECS Battery Division Student Slam 3 Best Paper Award. He is a content creator for the EChem Channel on YouTube. He currently serves as an at-large member of the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) User Executive Committee.