Co-authors of the paper are Rice graduate students Huilong Fei
and Gonglan Ye, postdoctoral researcher Nam Dong Kim, alumni Errol Samuel
and Zhiwei Peng,
and Pulickel Ajayan, chair of the Department of Materials Science
and NanoEngineering, the Benjamin M.
and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in
Engineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice; Juncai Dong
and Dongliang Chen of the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; research associate M. Josefina Arellano - Jiménez
and José Yacamán, chairman of the Department of Physics, at the University of Texas at San Antonio;
and graduate students Zhuan Zhu
and Fan Qin
and Jiming Bao, an associate professor of
electrical and computer engineering, at the University of
Houston.
«We are combining a nanostructured cathode
and a new understanding of the magnesium electrolyte,» said Yan Yao, associate professor of
electrical and computer engineering at the University of
Houston and lead author on the paper.