Development and Evaluation of Next Generation Electrodes for Advanced Li-ion Batteries

学生将为评估锂电池(和后锂电池)的新标准测试规程的制定做出贡献。这将为电化学表征和加速压力测试制定强有力的标准，为电池和材料的标准表征提供一个增强的工具箱。NEXTRODE计划将产生特别的影响，在该计划中，我们将寻求快速评估该计划中的材料，并针对当前的艺术状态提供可靠的性能基准。学生将为开发先进的材料表征工具做出贡献，并建立协议将这些工具转换到生产环境中。除了强大的电化学基准，电极设计工具还将包括先进的X射线成像和基于图像的建模，并将提供前所未有的性能/微结构关系的理解。将这种理解转化为生产环境仍然具有挑战性；这就提出了一个问题。我们如何知道我们的设计意图已经有效地实现了呢？为了解决这一问题，学生将参与设计可在线应用的电极质量“代理”测量；这些测量包括电、声、光和X射线测量，这些测量可以快速应用于制造过程中，提供可靠的质量控制，并验证设计假设。

The student will contribute to the development of new standard test protocols for evaluating Li (and post Li) batteries. This will develop robust standards for electrochemical characterisation and accelerated stress tests to provide an enhanced toolbox for standard characterisation of batteries and materials. Particular impact will be derived by the NEXTRODE programme where we will seek to rapidly evaluate materials from the programme, and provide robust benchmarking of performance versus the current state of the art.The student will contribute to the development of advanced materials characterisation tools and establish protocols to translate these tools to a production environment. Alongside robust electrochemical benchmarking, the tools for electrode design will include advanced X-ray imaging and image based modelling and will provide unprecedented understanding of the performance/microstructure relationship. Translating this understanding to a production environment remains challenging; this raises the question. how will we know that our design intent has been effectively implemented? To address this the student will contribute to the design of 'proxy' measurements for electrode quality which can be applied in-line; these include electrical, acoustic, optical and X-ray measurements, which can be rapidly applied in the manufacturing process providing robust quality control, and verification of design hypotheses.