Brown University’s School of Engineering (SoE) invites applications from candidates for a Professor of the Practice position at the Associate or Full level in the area of Sustainable Energy.

Brown University engineers showed that applying a temperature gradient across a solid-state electrolyte blocks destructive dendrite growth, offering a practical solution to a major barrier in battery technology.

Nitin Padture, the Otis E. Randall University Professor of Engineering at Brown, has received a Humboldt Research Award.

Research by Brown University engineers sheds new light on how sodium behaves inside these batteries, providing new design specifications for anode materials that maximize stability and energy density for sodium-ion batteries.

Brown University’s Joan Wernig Sorensen Professor of Engineering Yue Qi has been elected to the class of 2026 Fellows by the Materials Research Society (MRS). She joins Nitin Padture (2023) and Subra Suresh (2008) as Brown faculty members who are Fellows of the MRS. She joins Nitin Padture (2023) and Subra Suresh (2008) as Brown faculty members who are Fellows of the MRS.

The 5 Sigma Physicist honor recognizes APS members who demonstrated substantial, impactful advocacy actions with APS Government Affairs.

Assistant Professor Joy Zeng, the newest chemical engineering professor to join the Brown School of Engineering, recognized the fundamental link between chemistry and nature even before she knew how to put it into words.

Associate Professor Feng Lin’s laboratory in Brown University’s School of Engineering leads pioneering studies using advanced materials and cell diagnostics analyses to systematically elucidate the degradation behavior of battery materials. B

Yue Qi, the Joan Wernig Sorensen Professor of Engineering at Brown University and member of ISE executive committee has received the 2025 Ross Coffin Purdy Award from The American Ceramic Society for a 2023 Nature Communications research paper. Presented annually, the Purdy honors the most valuable technical contribution to ceramic literature published two years prior. There were two awarded papers in 2025.

Fermi Energy, a startup which develops high-performance cathode materials for next-generation batteries, was pitched by Lin’s CEO and co-founder Zhengrui “Ray” Xu.

Fundamental scientific questions drive Lin Lab tech advancements

Nitin Padture who leads Brown’s Initiative for Sustainable Energy and other researchers from Brown University’s School of Engineering have discovered new details about how destructive cracks form in flexible electronic devices — and how to prevent them.