Anh Ngo
University of Illinois Chicago, IL·Materials Science
The liquid inside a rechargeable battery, called the electrolyte, carries charged ions between the electrodes. It strongly shapes how well, how safely and how long a battery works.
- Fields
Materials Science
Chemistry
Engineering
- Topics
rechargeable batteries
liquid electrolytes
battery electrolytes
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Sep 2027
What they work on
- Characterize the solvation structure of liquid battery electrolytes, meaning how molecules arrange around each ion, across many compositions and concentrations using high-throughput multimodal measurements.
- Relate electrolyte structure to properties by studying ion transport through high-throughput computational screening simulations.
- Build a machine learning data analysis platform that predicts battery properties from high-throughput structural and simulation data.
More about the research
But how its molecular makeup leads to performance is still poorly understood. This collaborative project aims to map those links so future batteries can be designed on purpose rather than by trial and error.
Why it matters
Better electrolytes could lead to next-generation rechargeable batteries that store more energy and are safer and more sustainable. Fast screening and machine learning predictions could help battery developers find promising electrolyte recipes without testing every option by hand.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Laisuo Su
University of Texas at Dallas, TX·Materials Science
Determine how the chemistry and concentration of non-reactive crowding agents and zinc salts modulate the Zn2+ solvation shell, ion pairing, and ion transport in bulk aqueous electrolytes.
Feifei Shi
Pennsylvania State University, PA·Chemistry·Early-career
Characterize electrical double layer properties in lithium-ion battery electrolytes by electrocapillarity on a static mercury electrode, measuring interfacial free energy, ion surface excess and potential of zero charge.
Martin Harmer
Lehigh University, PA·Materials Science
Discover new sodium-ion conducting oxide ceramics by combining ultra-high-temperature synthesis, which sinters materials in about 10 seconds, with first-principles data-driven computation and high-throughput measurements.
The school
University of Illinois Chicago: 42 labs on PI Pages, $532M a year on research, 359 research doctorates a year.
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