Douglas Pedersen will be presenting his research “Life Cycle Assessment of LiCoO2/Graphite Batteries with Cooling Using Dualfoil Simulations and Simulink” as an oral presentation at the 240th ECS meeting! The presentation will be part of the Z04: Electrochemical Recovery, Recycling, and Sustainability of Critical and Value Added Materials symposium. The 240th ECS meeting will be held online in October.
Congrats Douglas!
Michael Lybbert, Zahra Ghaemi, Dr. A.K. Balaji, and Dr. Warren are authors of a new publication in the July 2021 issue of Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews: “Integrating life cycle assessment and electrochemical modeling to study the effects of cell design and operating conditions on the environmental impacts of lithium-ion batteries“. Check out the article here!
Michael Lybbert, Zahra Ghaemi, Dr. A.K. Balaji, and Dr. Warren are authors of a new publication in the July 2021 issue of Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews: “Integrating life cycle assessment and electrochemical modeling to study the effects of cell design and operating conditions on the environmental impacts of lithium-ion batteries“. Check out the article here!
PhD students Fariha Khan and Tim Kowalchik are first and second authors on a new publication in Scripta Materialia: “Stretching-induced phase transitions in barium-titanate-poly(vinylidene fluoride) flexible composite piezoelectric films”!
Read their article at: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1b%7Ere4r9TD%7Eqe9
Undergraduate researcher Misha Bekeris is the first-author on the newly accepted publication in PSS-RRL, “Rapid Quantification of Nanosphere Lithography Packing Defects Using Scanning Electron Microscopy Edge Effects”. The paper is available for download at: https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.202000328
Congratulations Misha!
Department of Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Roseanne Warren has been awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award. The CAREER program is one of NSF’s most prestigious award programs, with awards of up to $500,000 over 5 years in support of early-career faculty with potential to serve as academic role models in research and education. The research grant, entitled “CAREER: Roll-to-Roll Fabrication of Porous Materials Using Nanobubble Templates,” will explore new methods of fabricating templated porous materials that are compatible with high-throughput, scalable manufacturing protocols, including roll-to-roll fabrication.
For more information, visit:
https://www.mech.utah.edu/warren-receives-2020-nsf-career-award/
Abdullah Alsharhan, Ruben Acevedo, Roseanne Warren, and Ryan Sochol’s recent article, “3D microfluidics via cyclic olefin polymer-based in situ direct laser writing” has been featured on the front cover of the September 7, 2019 issue of Lab on a Chip. The article explores a new method of printing three-dimensional nanostructured components directly inside of enclosed microchannels using cyclic olefin polymer (COP). Demonstrated 3D printing results show that COP-based in-situ direct laser writing offers a promising pathway to wide-ranging fluidic applications that demand significant architectural versatility at submicron scales with invariable sealing integrity, such as for biomimetic organ-on-a-chip systems and integrated microfluidic circuits.
The research is supported by NSF Award numbers 1761395 and 1761273.
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PI Warren and the Advanced Energy Innovations Lab, in collaboration with Prof. Shad Roundy, has received a research funding award from the National Science Foundation to study new method for direct conversion of thermal energy to stored electrochemical energy. The award will support the training of two graduate student researchers, and provide summer research internship opportunities for local high school students.
Full details are available on the NSF award page.
AEIL undergraduate researchers Misha Bekeris and Samuel Engebretsen have been selected to participate in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for Fall 2019 semester.
Congrats to Misha and Samuel!
For more info on UROP, visit: https://our.utah.edu/urop/
Congrats to Nolan Ingersoll, Zahra Karimi, Dhruv Patel, and Robert Underwood for their recently published article in Electrochemica Acta!
Nolan Ingersoll, Zahra Karimi, Dhruv Patel, Robert Underwood, and Roseanne Warren, “Metal Organic Framework-Derived Carbon Structures for Sodium-Ion Battery Anodes,” Electrochimica Acta, Vol. 297, pp. 129-136, 2019
Abstract:
Metal organic framework-derived carbons (MOFDCs) have great potential as electrochemical energy storage materials due to their large surface areas and highly tunable pore structures. In this work, two MOFDCs are tested as sodium-ion battery anode materials and their charge storage mechanisms compared. MOF5 (Zn4O(1,4-benzodicarboxylate)3) and ZIF8 (Zn(2-methylimidazole)2) were used as sacrificial templates and pyrolyzed to yield highly porous, structurally-robust carbons with high surface areas (MOF5DC and ZIF8DC). Undoped ZIF8DC was tested for the first time as a sodium-ion battery anode to enable comparison of MOFDC charge storage mechanisms based solely on carbon structure. Half-cell discharge tests at C/2 attain capacity values of 227 and 107 mAh/g for MOF5DC and undoped ZIF8DC, respectively. Cycling stability testing confirms the structural robustness of the MOFDC materials, with the anodes retaining between 84-89% capacity over 66 cycles. Discharge profiles for both materials indicate that the primary storage mechanism of MOF5DC and ZIF8DC anodes is adsorption at defect sites. A comparison of half-cell discharge, cycling rate, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements suggests that MOF5DC also demonstrates some nanopore filling mechanisms. A comparison of Na+ion diffusion coefficients for MOF5DC and ZIF8DC indicates that an MOF structure with increased pore size may improve capacity and rate performance of MOFDCs as anode materials for sodium-ion battery cell applications.
