Yaocai Bai

Yaocai Bai

R&D Associate Staff Scientist

Yaocai Bai is an R&D associate staff scientist in the Emerging and Solid-State Batteries Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). His research focuses on accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy through materials innovation and developing sustainable processes for lithium-ion battery recycling. He has extensive research experience in materials synthesis, energy conversion and storage, and battery recycling, in which he has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers. He also has eight U.S. patent applications related to advanced methods for recycling lithium-ion batteries. He received a B.S. degree in Material Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2010, an M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in 2017.