Session 1
Aysen Zerey
Disordered Rock salt Cathode based on Lithium Manganese Oxyfluoride for Li-ion Battery.
FutureCat
Carl Reynolds
Structure and rheology of electrode slurries and implications for battery manufacture
Nextrode
Guo Jung Lian
Short range electrical networks within NMC622 cathodes established by high shear milling mechanofusion.
Nextrode
Jiayi Cen
Intrinsic Defect Study on High-voltage Spinel LiMn1.5Ni0.5O4 as Cathode Material for Li-ion Batteries.
FutureCat
Joel Jr Cabanero
Organic dicarboxylates/hard carbon composites as negative electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries.
NEXGENNA
Paul Adams
Fluorine-free alternative binders for dry battery electrodes - breaking from the PDVF / PTFE norm.
Nextrode
Scott Brown
ATOM-EFFICIENT SYNTHESIS OF A BENCHMARK ELECTROLYTE FOR MAGNESIUM BATTERY APPLICATIONS
Seed project, starting in June 2022
Session 2
Abarasi Hart
In what ways does PVDF molecular weight affect NMC811 slurry stability and microstructure?
FutureCat
Aigerim Omirkhan
Investigating the degradation of battery cathodes using micromechanical testing
Degradation
Daisy Thornton
What Kills Lithium Ion Batteries? Probing Degradation with Electrochemistry Mass Spectrometry
Degradation
Hollie Richards
Computational design of high voltage Li-rich cathode sulphide cathode materials
CATMAT
Hrishit Banerjee
The importance of electronic correlations in exploring the exotic phase diagram of layered LixMnO2
Degradation
Jana Beatrice Fritzke
7Li NMR Spectroscopic investigations of the performance limiting mechanisms of Lithium-Sulfur batteries
LiSTAR
Kieran Mylrea
Polymer artificial interphases to promote high efficiency Li metal batteries
Degradation
NEXGENNA
LiSTAR
Stanislaw Zankowski
Mapping distribution of aqueous-based binders in graphitic Li-ion electrodes
Nextrode
Xiangdong Xu
Interfacial Factors Affecting Performance of Oxide-free Silicon for Lithium-ion Batteries Revealed by Correlative Electrochemical Microscopy
Characterisation Liverpool
Yazid Lakhdar
Kinetics and Thermodynamics of a Fast-charging MoNb12O33 Niobium Oxide Anode for Lithium-ion Batteries
Yifeng Zhang
Monitoring dendrite formation at electrode-electrolyte interface using guided ultrasonic waves
Session 3
Ben Smith
Extracting structural information from powder X-ray diffraction patterns using convolutional neural networks trained with a sinkhorn loss
Degradation
Chuxin Yue
Synthesis and Characterization of Ca-Pillared Layered Transition Metal Oxides (NaTMO2)
NEXGENNA
Gabriela Horwitz
Mediated lithium-air batteries: what can we learn from cyclic voltammetry?
Isaac Squires
Data-driven tools for advanced battery characterisation
James Nohl
Tracking transition metal components in SEM-derived secondary electron spectra from cathode active materials
FutureCat
Ruihuan Ge
Discrete Element Method and Stochastic Structure Modelling of Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes under Different Calendering Conditions
Nextrode
Samuel Coles
Anion-Polarisation Induced Short-Range-Order in the Heterocationic Lithium-Ion Cathode Material Li2FeSO
CATMAT
Thomas Klim
Single Cell Testing for Thermal Batteries
THE FARADAY BATTERY CHALLENGE
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