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Dr Nuria Garcia-Araez

Associate professor of electrochemistry

Nuria Garcia-Araez is an associate professor in electrochemistry at Southampton. She has a multidisciplinary background on fundamental electrochemistry and in-situ characterization techniques and her current interests are the development of the next generation of rechargeable batteries, with focus on lithium-oxygen and lithium-sulfur batteries, and new methods of lithium production and recycling.

Nuria Garcia-Araez obtained her first-class degree in Chemistry in 2002 at the University of Alicante (Spain), where she also got her Ph.D. in 2007 in the field of single-crystal electrochemistry under the supervision of Prof. Juan Feliu and Dr. Victor Climent. Then, she received a Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship and a postdoctoral fellowship by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to work in the group of Prof. Huib Bakker at AMOLF and Prof. Marc Koper at Leiden University (The Netherlands) on the application of optical and nonlinear optical techniques to study the structure and dynamics of water near ions and at electrochemical interfaces. In 2011, she obtained a senior scientist position in the group of Prof. Petr Novak at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland to study lithium-air batteries. In 2012 she joined the University of Southampton as assistant professor and in 2019 she was promoted to associate professor. Over the course of her career, she has been awarded 9 academic prizes, including the Best Spanish Young Electrochemist award by CIDETEC in 2012. In 2016, she received a prestigious Early Career Researcher Fellowship by the EPSRC.

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Garcia-Araez’s most recent research is focused on the development of lithium-oxygen and lithium-sulphur batteries with the potential of delivering 5 times more energy than current lithium-ion batteries of the same weight. Her research approach is to gain a fundamental understanding of the complex reaction mechanism, identifying the bottlenecks in performance, and developing innovative solutions targeted to solve these limitations. She has also been involved in the development of a new method for lithium battery recycling (patented in 2014), and in developing high performance lithium-ion batteries by tuning the structure and composition. She has also extensive experience in developing sophisticated spectroscopic techniques to study in-situ electrochemical processes, in some cases with femtosecond time resolution. She has also extensive knowledge on interfacial thermodynamics, single-crystal electrodes, electrocatalysis and she is the co-inventor of a new method of nanoparticle synthesis (patented in 2011).

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Electrochemistry

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Garcia-Araez: Fundamental development of Li-O2 and Li-S batteries

Garcia-Araez: A new method of lithium production and recycling

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Key Publications

Liu, T., Frith, J. T., Kim, G., Kerber, R. N., Dubouis, N., Shao, Y., ... Grey, C. P. (2018). The effect of water on quinone redox mediators in nonaqueous Li-O2 batteries. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(4), 1428-1437. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b11007
Liu, T., Liu, Z., Kim, G., Frith, J. T., Garcia-Araez, N., & Grey, C. P. (2017). Understanding LiOH chemistry in a ruthenium catalyzed Li-O2 battery. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201709886
Yang, L., Frith, J. T., Garcia-Araez, N., & Owen, J. R. (2015). A new method to prevent degradation of lithium–oxygen batteries: reduction of superoxide by viologen. Chemical Communications, 51(9), 1705-1708. DOI: 10.1039/c4cc09208b

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Garcia-Araez, N., Climent, V., & Feliu, J. M. (2011). Temperature effects on platinum single-crystal aqueous solution interphases. Combining Gibbs thermodynamics with laser-pulsed experiments. In Interfacial Phenomena in Electrocatalysis (Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry; Vol. 51). New York, US: Springer.
Climent, V., Garcia-Araez, N., & Feliu, J. M. (2009). Clues for the molecular-level understanding of electrocatalysis on single-crystal platinum surfaces modified by p-block adatoms. In Fuel Cell Catalysis: A Surface Science Approach Chichester, GB: Wiley.

Conferences

Garcia-Araez, N., Climent, V., Feliu, J., Backus, E. G. H., Bonn, M., Bakker, H. J., ... Koper, M. T. M. (2014). Redox mediators for lithium-oxygen batteries. 2nd Workshop in Advances in Li Battery Research, United Kingdom.
Garcia-Araez, N., Frith, J. T., Yang, L., Lodge, A., Richardson, W., & Owen, J. R. (2014). Soluble redox catalysts to enhance and relocate oxygen reduction and evolution in the lithium-air battery. XXXV Meeting of Electrochemistry of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, Spain.
Garcia-Araez, N., Frith, J. T., Yang, L., Richardson, W., Lodge, A. W., & Owen, J. R. (2014). Soluble redox catalysts to enhance and relocate oxygen reduction and evolution in the lithium-air battery. Electrochemistry 2014, Germany.
Garcia-Araez, N., Climent, V., Feliu, J., Backhus, E. H. G., Bonn, M., Bakker, H. J., ... Koper, M. T. M. (2013). Water adsorption on metal electrodes. Electrochemistry Conference 2013 - Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry and thier Applications, Spain.
Bonn, M., Bakker, H. J., Garcia-Araez, N., & Backus, E. H. G. (2012). Vibrational response and dynamics of water at charged bio- and electrochemical interfaces. 224th American Chemical Society National Meeting, United States.
Yanson, A. I., Rodriguez, P., Garcia-Araez, N., Mom, R. V., Tichelaar, F. D., & M.T.M., K. (2011). Cathodic corrosion: a quick, clean and versatile method for the synthesis of metallic nanoparticles. Paper presented at 62nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Japan.
Bakker, H. J., Tielrooij, K. J., Garcia-Araez, N., & Bonn, M. (2011). Femtosecond vibrational study of water dynamics in salt solutions. Paper presented at 15th International Conference on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy, Switzerland.

Review

Zhang, M., Garcia-Araez, N., & Hector, A. L. (2018). Understanding and development of olivine LiCoPO₄ cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 14483-14517. DOI: 10.1039/C8TA04063J

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