December, 2025: Soares presented his research in a webinar to the ARISE team with a presentation titled 'Enhanced State of Health assessment of lithium-ion batteries for resilient infrastructure systems'.
December, 2025: Soares was awarded the 2025 Outstanding Alumni Award in the graduate student category from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC) at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) - Brazil. This award recognizes alumni who have excelled in their professional fields. UNICAMP is the second-best university in Latin America, according to the Times Higher Education (THE) Latin America University Rankings 2026 - link. Thank you!
November, 2025: Undergraduate student researcher Antonio Graciano received the third-place award at the Annual IEEE Wichita Holiday Banquet, organized by the IEEE Wichita section (region 5). His work focuses on understanding how the geometry of internal defects influences localized electric-field intensification using fininte element method (FEM) and validation using analytical modeling. Congratulations!
November, 2025: New publication alert! A journal paper on composite biochar-Ni nanoparticles as a supercapacitor electrode material, in collaboration with the Center for Information Technology Renato Archer (CTI) in Campinas in Brazil, has been published in Materials Research Bulletin. Link.
November, 2025: Second-year PhD student Md Zawad Hossain has received the Dora Wallace Hodgson-Outstanding Doctoral Student Award in recognition of his research accomplishments. Congratulations! Picture from the ceremony.
November, 2025: Soares to serve as Scientific Editor for Materials Today Communications.
November, 2025: Undergraduate student researcher Nithish Aravinthan was awarded the second place for the best presentation in the undergraduate category in the 57th North American Power Symposium (NAPS) 2025. The conference paper can be found at the following Link. Congratulations!
October, 2025: New publication alert! A journal paper on charge storage mechanisms in organic electrolytes using in-situ Raman spectroscopy, in collaboration with University of Campinas in Brazil, has been published in Next Energy. Open access link.
October, 2025: Soares organized a site visit for Panasonic Energy on campus, which included lab tours, meetings with faculty, and an information session for students about career opportunities.
September, 2025: Soares and the graduate student Md Zawad Hossain visited the Electrochemical Research, Technology, & Engineering Group at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California to discuss the project sponsored by NASA KS EPSCoR. Thank you to our collaborators at NASA JPL team for the warm reception and great discussions! Picture from the visit.
August, 2025: Undergraduate student Madison Koester joined our lab to do research in collaboration with Dr. Ara's lab. Welcome!
July, 2025: Undergraduate student Preston Dinh joined our lab to do research. Welcome!
July, 2025: Soares received the NASA EPSCoR Partnership Development Grant (PDG) award. This research will focus on developing thermally stable electrodes for high energy density batteries. Thank you!
May, 2025: Soares received funding from the Summer Undergraduate and Graduate Research Assistantships (SUGRA), sponsored by the State of Kansas. Thank you!
May, 2025: Soares presented the research on the kinetics of a selenide-based layered material as beyond lithium-ion battery technogy at the 247th ECS Meeting in Montréal, Canada. The research work presented was conducted by graduate student Md Zawad Hossain.
May, 2025: Undergraduate student Leland Seiwert joined our lab to do research. Welcome!
April, 2025: Second-year PhD student Eric Pereira has received the Outstanding Graduate Research Award in recognition of his research accomplishments. Congratulations!
April, 2025: Graduate student Eric Pereira received the second place award for Outstanding Research Poster at the NSF-funded 2025 ARISE Annual Symposium in Garden City, KS, for his work on a novel approach to assessing the state of health (SOH) in commercial lithium-ion batteries for resilient infrastructure systems. Congratulations!
April, 2025: New publication alert! Congratulations to graduate student Eric Pereira and undergraduate student Damilola Ogun for their recent work on a comprehensive real-time state of health (SOH) assessment framework published in ChemElectroChem. Open access link.
March, 2025: Soares delivered invited talk on lithium-ion batteries and beyond at the 17th annual IEEE Green Technologies (GreenTech) Conference.
March, 2025: Soares attended the Engineering Research to Catalyze Resilient Rural Communities event in Iowa City, IA, where he joined a task force. This event was organized by the NSF-funded Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA). Thank you for the invitation!
March, 2025: Graduate student Md Zawad Hossain presented his work on layered conversion-based anodes at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2025 Meeting & Expo in San Diego, CA.
February, 2025: Graduate students Eric Pereira and Md Zawad Hossain were selected to present their research at the Graduate Research Summit in Topeka, KS. They were among only ten graduate students chosen to represent Wichita State University. Congratulations to both!
February, 2025: Soares was awarded the Young Faculty Risk Taker Award 2025. Thank you!
January, 2025: New publication alert! Congratulations to graduate students Eric Pereira and Md Zawad Hossain and to undergraduate student Damilola Ogun for their recent work that reported the development of a machine learning-based framework for online assessment of state of health (SOH) and end-of-life (EOL) prediction in commercial lithium-ion batteries. Their work has been considered as on the high-quality student papers submitted to the 2025 IEEE Green Technologies (GreenTech) conference proceedings. The work can be accessed here.
January, 2025: Undergraduate student Antonio Graciano joined our lab to do research. Welcome!
November, 2024: Soares, along with graduate student Eric Pereira, attended the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) in Portland, OR, where Eric Pereira presented his research on physics-based machine learning for state-of-health (SOH) assessment in commercial lithium-ion batteries.
October, 2024: New publication alert! Soares attended and presented a work at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP) in Auburn, AL. The undergraduate student Damilola Ogun is the first author of the presented work. The work can be accessed here.
September, 2024: Soares delivered invited lecture at the Workshop on microgrids and energy battery storage at Universidade Autonoma de Occidente in Cali, Colombia.
July, 2024: Soares was interviewed by a newspaper to discuss the fire risks associated with electric vehicles. A link to the full article can be accessed here.
June, 2024: Graduate student Md Zawad Hossain joined our lab. Welcome!
March, 2024: Soares received funds from the Tim & Laura Unruh Faculty Support in Engineering Fund to support work on batteries. Thank you!
February, 2024: Graduate student Eric Pereira joined our lab. Welcome!
January, 2024: Soares and Dr. Molnar received the Multidisciplinary Research Project Award (MURPA). Thank you!
November, 2023: Undergraduate student Damilola Ogun joined our lab to do research. Welcome!
October, 2023: Soares received Kansas NSF EPSCoR First Award. Thank you!
September, 2023: Soares delivered invited talk at the Industrial Advisory Board meeting.
August, 2023: Soares joins the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Wichita State University.