MechE Seminar: Enabling Deformability of Battery Components - from Materials Innovation to System Integration
Event details
| Date | 12.02.2026 |
| Hour | 09:00 › 10:00 |
| Speaker | Dr. Xuelin Guo, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Abstract: As electrification expands from infrastructure to personal devices, power sources are increasingly expected to adapt to highly diverse and often conflicting constraints. Wearable electronics particularly require battery components that can sustain mechanical deformation while remaining electrochemically stable, biocompatible, manufacturable, and scalable. In this seminar, I will present design principles and enabling strategies to transform conventional battery building blocks into deformable and, ultimately, stretchable components. The central theme is a material-to-system approach, where the mechanical compliance of each component is co-engineered with electronic and ionic transport, interfacial robustness, and electrochemical stability. I will highlight representative examples that couple two or more constraints simultaneously, identify fundamental tradeoffs and failure modes under deformation, and discuss validation methods spanning both component level characterization and system level demonstrations. I will conclude with a brief outlook on how these principles can guide the integration of stretchable energy storage into wearable platforms, and how they may help meet the key performance, manufacturability, and sustainability constraints of next-generation on-demand power sources.
Biography: Dr. Xuelin Guo is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research focuses on materials and mechanical design of intrinsically stretchable energy storage systems for wearable electronics, spanning conductor architectures, solid polymer electrolytes, and mechanically adaptive interfaces. She develops soft material platforms that maintain electrochemical function under large deformation, with an emphasis on coupling deformability with charge transport, interfacial stability, and sustainability. Her work integrates polymer chemistry and physics with electronics and electrochemistry to enable functional, and application adaptive power sources for wearable devices. She received her BS in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
Biography: Dr. Xuelin Guo is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research focuses on materials and mechanical design of intrinsically stretchable energy storage systems for wearable electronics, spanning conductor architectures, solid polymer electrolytes, and mechanically adaptive interfaces. She develops soft material platforms that maintain electrochemical function under large deformation, with an emphasis on coupling deformability with charge transport, interfacial stability, and sustainability. Her work integrates polymer chemistry and physics with electronics and electrochemistry to enable functional, and application adaptive power sources for wearable devices. She received her BS in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
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