Shuya Wei
Contact
swei@unm.edu
Phone: (505) 277-1622
Physical Address
Room
1455
Farris Engineering Center
Mailing Address
01 1120
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1070

Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Education
Ph.D. Cornell University, Chemical Engineering, 2017
B.Eng. Nanyang Technological University, Bioengineering, 2013
Biography
Dr. Shuya Wei is an associate professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM). She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 2017, following a B.Eng. from Nanyang Technological University in 2013, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2017 to 2019. Dr. Wei joined UNM as an assistant professor in 2019 and was promoted to associate professor in 2025. She has been recognized with several prestigious honors, including the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Award, the ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award, the Scialog: Negative Emissions Science Fellow, the UNM ADVANCE Women in STEM Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the New Mexico Women in Technology Award. Dr. Wei’s research focuses on electrochemical processes at electrodes and interfaces, with the goal of advancing high-energy-density metal-based batteries for energy storage and environmental applications.
Selected Publications
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Jianda Wang, Xiao-Dong Zhou* and Shuya Wei*, ‘Enhanced Cycle Performance of Rechargeable Li-CO2 Batteries Using Nanostructured AMn2O4 (A = Ni, Zn, Co) Electrocatalysts', ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025,17(2), 3127-3135.
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Raju Vadthya, Christopher Fetrow, Olumide Oladiyon, James Wu, Ivanov Sergei, You Wang, Dongchang Chen, Xiao-Dong Zhou and Shuya Wei*, ‘Low-Temperature and High-Rate Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries Enabled by Ternary Eutectic Electrolytes', ChemSusChem, 2025, 18(2), e202400983.
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Jianda Wang, Barbara Marchetti, Xiao-Dong Zhou* and Shuya Wei*, ‘Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts for Metal–CO2 Batteries and CO2 Electrolysis’, ACS Energy Letters, 2023, 8 (4), 1818-1838.
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Christopher Fetrow, Cameron Carugati, Xingwen Yu, Xiao-Dong Zhou* and Shuya Wei*, ‘A Secondary Al–CO2 Battery Enabled by Aluminum Iodide as a Homogeneous Redox Mediator’, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, 15(10), 12908-12914.
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Geran Zhang, Shuya Wei and Angela M. Belcher, ‘Biotemplated zinc sulfide nanofibers as anode materials for sodium-ion batteries’, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2018, 1 (10), 5631-5639.
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Shuya Wei, Zhu Cheng, Pooja Nath, Mukul D. Tikekar, Gaojin Li and Lynden A. Archer*, ‘Stabilizing Electrochemical Interfaces in Viscoelastic Liquid Electrolytes’, Science Advances, 2018, 4 (3), eaao6243
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Shuya Wei, Shaomao Xu, Akanksha Agrawal, Snehashis Choudhury, Yingying Lu, Zhengyuan Tu, Li Ma and Lynden A. Archer*, ‘A Stable Room Temperature Sodium-sulfur Battery’, Nature Communication, 2016, 7, 11722
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Shuya Wei, Lin Ma, Kenville E. Hendrickson, Zhengyuan Tu and Lynden A. Archer*, 'Lithium-Sulfur Battery Cathodes based on PAN-Sulfur Composites', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137 (37), 12143-12152
Teaching Interests
- Transport
- Thermodynamics
- Electrochemistry
Research Interests
- Energy storage
- Electrochemical Fundamentals
- Carbon Capture
- Nanomaterials