Akihiro Kushima is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and also affiliated with the Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center and the NanoScience Technology Center. He received doctoral degree from Kyoto University. Prior to coming to UCF, he conducted postdoctoral studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Pennsylvania, and held a research scientist position at MIT. His research focuses on understanding the complex nano-scale phenomena through combination of experiment and atomistic simulation, with particular emphasis on in-situ transmission electron microscopy and energy storage devices. Kushima received NSF CAREER award on the study of electro-chemo-mechanics at the interfaces in all-solid-state lithium batteries.

• Kushima, K. P. So, C. Su, P. Bai, N. Kuriyama, T. Maebashi, Y. Fujiwara, M. Z. Bazant, J. Li, “Liquid cell transmission electron microscopy observation of lithium metal growth and dissolution: Root growth, dead lithium and lithium flotsams”, Nano Energy, 32, 271 (2017).


• Xu, Q. Yan, A. Kushima, X. Zhang, J. Pan, and J. Li, “Conductive graphene oxide-polyacrylic acid (GOPAA) binder for lithium-sulfur battery”, Nano Energy, 31, 568 (2017).


• Jin, S. Li, A. Kushima, X. Zheng, Y. Sun, J. Xie, J. Sun, W. Xue, G. Zhou, J. Wu, F. Shi, R. Zhang, Z. Zhu, K. So, Y. Cui, and J. Li, “Self-healing SEI enables full-cell cycling of a silicon-majority anode with a coulombic efficiency exceeding 99.9%”, Energy Environ. Sci., DOI: 10.1039/C6EE02685K


• Zhu, A. Kushima, Z. Yin, L. Qi, K. Amine, J. Lu, and J. Li, “Anion-redox nanolithia cathodes for Li-ion batteries”, Nature Energy, 1, 16111 (2016).


• P. So, X. Liu, H. Mori, A. Kushima, J. G. Park, H. S. Kim, S. Ogata, Y. H. Lee, and J. Li, “Ton-scale metal-carbon nanotube composite: The mechanism of strengthening while retaining tensile ductility”, Extreme Mech. Lett., 8, 245 (2016).


• P. So, D. Chen, A. Kushima, M. Li, S. Kim, Y. Yang, Z. Wang, J. G. Park, Y. H. Lee, R. I. Gonzalez, M. Kiwi, E. M. Bringa, L. Shao, and Ju Li, “Dispersion of carbon nanotubes in aluminum improves radiation resistance”, Nano Energy, 22, 319 (2016).