Dr Dongrui Xie

BSc, MSc, PhD

  • Research Associate in Additive Manufacturing and Field Assisted Sintering of Ceramics
Dongrui Xie

Background:

Dongrui did his BSc in Materials Physics at Sichuan University from 2013 to 2017. He joined the 色狗导航 China Material Partnership (LCMP) in 2016 and obtained his MSc in Materials Science and Technology from 色狗导航 in 2018. From 2018 to 2023, he was doing a PhD at 色狗导航, working on the additive manufacturing of solid-state electrolytes for Na-ion batteries. After his PhD, he was a research assistant working on the MAP-IT project, a seed project from the Faraday Institution. He joined the University of Birmingham in 2023 as a research fellow of the Faraday Institution, working on the NEXTRODE project until 2026. 

Qualifications:

  • PhD in Additive manufacturing of solid-state electrolytes for Na-ion batteries, 色狗导航, UK. 2023.
  • MSc in Materials Science and Technology, 色狗导航, UK. 2018.
  • BSc in Materials Physics, Sichuan University, China. 2017.

Outline of main research interests:

  • Additive manufacturing of ceramics 
  • Advanced sintering techniques  
  • Electrode manufacturing for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries  

 

Recent publications:

  • T. Song, D. Xie, M. Ovhal, D.O. Scanlon, E. Kendrick, Breaking the Durability – Power Trade-Off鈥�: Boron-Directed Faceted O3 Cathodes for High-Rate Sodium-Ion Batteries, (2025). . 
  • B. Liu, T. Song, L. Chen, A.T. Shekhar, M. Mirolo, V. Vinci, J. Drnec, J. Cornelio, D. Xie, E.H. Driscoll, P.R. Slater, E. Kendrick, Sustainable Recovery and Reuse of Hard Carbon From Scrap and End-of-Life Sodium-Ion Batteries, 2405894 (2025). . 
  • D. Xie, A. Goulas, B. Vaidhyanathan, S. Saremi-Yarahmadi, Performance of Mg stabilised Na-β’’-alumina solid electrolytes prepared by direct ink writing, Open Ceram. 20 (2024) 100674. . 
  • A. Goulas, D. Xie, J. Gibitz, S. Saremi-Yarahmadi, B. Vaidhyanathan, Digital light processing of sodium-beta-alumina ceramic electrolytes, Appl. Mater. Today 39 (2024) 102276. . 
  • A. Goulas, D. Xie, G. Gatzoulis, S. Saremi-Yarahmadi, B. Vaidhyanathan, Rapid manufacture of sodium polyaluminate electrolyte ceramics for solid state batteries via direct ink writing, J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 44 (2024) 5041–5047. . 
  • H. Cai, T. Yu, D. Xie, B. Sun, J. Cheng, L. Li, X. Bao, H. Zhang, Microstructure and ionic conductivities of NASICON-type Li1.3Al0.3Ti1.7(PO4)3 solid electrolytes produced by cold sintering assisted process, J. Alloys Compd. 939 (2023). .