High-throughput design and synthesis of novel nanomaterials for Li-ion batteries

This research project seeks to develop new low-cost and abundant materials for energy storage, like batteries, with an improved performance. The work will include the design, synthesis and characterization of the new materials, and, ultimately, will use them in fully functional devices. The project will focus in novel ways of combining elements and alloys with high conductivity in order to eliminate the expensive materials used nowadays in commercial batteries.
Based on the previous work done at the Toronto facilities, combinations known of metals such as Iron, Cobalt, Nickel and Tungsten will be put to the test so that the battery can attain higher voltage than the ones conceived presently.
The student will participate in computational materials design, building the machine learning models to describe the obtain data, materials synthesis in a high-throughput robotic system, materials characterization and battery testing. All experimental training on material fabrication and characterization will be provided in place.

Faculty Supervisor:

Oleksandr (Alex) Voznyy

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Partner:

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

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