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ISCF Wave 1: Improved lifetime performance and safety of electrochemical energy stores through functionalization of passive materials and components

Staff

Other researchers

Professor Nuria Garcia-Araez

Professor

Research interests

  • Batteries
Connect with Nuria

Email: N.Garcia-Araez@soton.ac.uk

Professor Suleiman Sharkh BEng, PhD, CEng, MIET

Prof of Electrical Machines and Drives

Research interests

  • Electric Machines
  • Power Electronics
  • Microgrids
Connect with Suleiman

Email: S.M.Sharkh@soton.ac.uk

Professor Andrew Hector

Head of School

Research interests

  • Materials synthesis, including metal nitrides, thin film materials, sol-gel and solvothermal processes and porous structures.
  • Materials characterisation – powder and thin film diffraction, microscopy and spectroscopy techniques.
  • Electrochemistry, including charge storage in battery and supercapacitor type cells, and electrodeposition of various materials. 
Connect with Andrew

Email: A.L.Hector@soton.ac.uk

Professor Richard Wills

Head of Department
Connect with Richard

Email: rgaw@soton.ac.uk

Professor Andrew Cruden BEng, MSc, PhD, FIET

Associate Dean Infrastructure
Connect with Andrew

Email: A.J.Cruden@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

A polyacrylonitrile shutdown film for prevention of thermal runaway in lithium-ion cells
Jonathan Peter Charles Allen, Marcin Mierzwa, Denis Kramer, Nuria Garcia-Araez & Andrew L. Hector, 2023, Batteries, 9(5)
DOI: 10.3390/batteries9050282
Type: article
Solvothermal synthesis of nanoscale BaTiO3 in benzyl alcohol-water mixtures and effects of manganese oxide coating to enhance the PTCR effect
Min Zhang, Thomas Caldwell, Andrew L. Hector, Nuria Garcia-Araez & Joseph Falvey, 2022, Dalton Transactions
DOI: 10.1039/D2DT03307K
Type: article
A La and Nb co-doped BaTiO3 film with positive-temperature-coefficient of resistance for thermal protection of batteries
Min Zhang, Sacha Fop, Denis Kramer, Nuria Garcia-Araez & Andrew L. Hector, 2022, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10(21), 11587 - 11599
DOI: 10.1039/D2TA00998F
Type: article
OpenImpala: OPEN source IMage based PArallisable Linear Algebra solver
2021, SoftwareX, 15
DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2021.100729
Type: article
Advances in prevention of thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries
Rachel McKerracher, Jorge Guzman Guemez, Richard Wills, Denis Kramer & Suleiman Sharkh, 2021, Advanced Energy Materials
DOI: 10.1002/aesr.202000059
Type: article