🌟 Grants: (1) Dr. Hou has been awarded the ACS PRF grant. (2) Our lab has been selected for the CU-SRNL GSS Support.
📝 News: Dr. Hou was appointed as a CUSHR Faculty Scholar by Clemson University's Office of the Provost.
🔊 Announcement: The website is still under construction.
About Me
🎓 I received my Ph.D. from North Carolina State University and my bachelor's degree from Central South University in China. The majority of my postdoctoral training was at Virginia Tech. More about me
🔬 My research interests include energy science, energy materials, electrochemistry, crystallography, advanced characterization, ceramic processing/manufacturing, and AI for materials research.
📘 I love teaching. Courses and Outreach
Research Lab
At DHLab, we seek to understand and control material properties for electrochemical energy applications while advancing fundamental knowledge in materials electrochemistry and solid-state physics. Our research spans the design, synthesis, processing, characterization, and application of functional materials for batteries, catalysis, ferroelectrics, capacitors, fuel cells, and related energy systems. By integrating synthesis, electrochemistry, crystallography, spectroscopy, multiscale characterization, and data-enabled analysis, we aim to develop structure-informed insights that guide next-generation materials design.
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Recent News
| Time | Event (Full News) |
|---|---|
| 2026.05 | Dr. Hou was awarded by the ACS Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) after national competition. Thanks for the Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) program, we will do fundamental research in the petroleum field. |
| 2026.05 | Dr. Hou was selected by the Clemson Office of Research Development (ORD) to attend the Grant Writers' Seminars & Workshops (GWSW). |
| 2026.04 | Dr. Hou has been appointed as a Clemson University School of Health Research (CUSHR) Faculty Scholar. In this role, we aim to advance Clemson's health-related research and to strengthen collaborations with faculties and healthcare system partners. |
| 2026.04 | Our lab has been selected for the CEES Sponsored Summer Internship Program, a collaborative outreach initiative with South Carolina State University (SCSU). |
| 2026.04 | Our two Creative Inquiry (CI) projects are now online. Please see ID #2773 on X-ray imaging and #2764 on battery cathodes. We welcome Clemson undergraduate students to join our team. |
| 2026.04 | Tariq and Nishanth won the first and second prize respectively in one session at 19th Annual MRS/Optica Poster Competition. |
| 2026.04 | Bryson has been selected for the graduate travel support to attend the first-ever ACerS Spring Meeting in Bellevue, WA. |
| 2026.04 | Our collaborative proposal was selected for funding by the CU-SRNL GSS Initiative. We will work with Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) on energy security. |
| 2026.04 | Dr. Hou serves as a proposal reviewer for the DOE program. |
| 2026.03 | Dr. Hou serves as a proposal reviewer for the U.S. Army Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). |
| 2026.03 | Bryson represented our lab well at the ACS Spring Conference in Atlanta, GA, and delivered an oral presentation on "Advances in Imaging Probes and Techniques." |
| 2026.01 | Take a look at the newly installed nanoCT in our state-of-the-art AMIC building (Also this video). |
| 2025.11 | Dr. Hou gave an invited seminar at the University of Connecticut. Many thanks to UConn MSE Head Dr. Dongare, the faculty members, and the students. |
| 2025.09 | After national competition, Dr. Hou received the NSF EPSCoR Research Fellowship! Check the press release. This very competitive fellowship supports us to visit Brookhaven National Laboratory in the next two years to solve important scientific questions in solid-state battery design. More about this program |
| 2025.06 | With partnership, Dr. Hou got the chance to attend IEEE INFOCOM in London, UK and IPDPS 2025 in Milan, Italy. Shared ideas with experts in parallel computation for better materials science. It was a memorable experience in Europe. |
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Updated: 2026-05-21