Li-lon Batteries
Na-Ion Batteries
Li-S Batteries
Fuel Cell
Sustainable energy becomes more and more important because it can reduce air emission as well as avoid the rapid depletion of fossil fuel reserves. However, sustainable/renewable energies are usually uncertain and intermittent, so developing of efficient energy storages is urgently necessary to make these sustainable/renewable energies become a major contribution to the future energies. In addition, to keep pace with development of portable electronic devices and electrical vehicles, development of energy storages with high energy and power densities is required. We are interested in designing and developing new materials to be applied to electrochemical energy devices. These include but are not restrained to electrode in secondary batteries (Li-ion, Na-ion, Mg-ion and Li-S batteries) and electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells.
Material Design for High-Performance Energy Storage
High capacity materials store large amount of Li ions/electrons, which always accompanies with huge volume expansion. This normally causes low cycle stability. Properly designed nanostructures effectively accommodate the volume changes during cycling. In addition, nanostructure provides short lithium/electron transport paths, resulting in high rate capability. We have developed a variety of nanomaterials for battery applications.
Operando/In-Situ Analyses Based on Synchrotron X-ray
Operando X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Microscopy
X-ray Tomography
There are three types of measurements to analyze the reactions: ex-situ, in-situ and operando measurements (A. Franco, Rechargeable Lithium Batteries: From Fundamentals to Applications, Woodhead. P184). For ex-situ measurement, the cells are stopped at the desired potential, flowed by extraction of the electrode from the electrochemical cell in order to analyze it with the desired technique. For in-situ measurement, the cells are stopped to measure directly the electrode inside the cell at OCV. Operando measurement is performed while the cell is cycling. Most results from in-situ and operando measurements are similar, but the results from ex-situ measurement can be very different, since the state can be changed through relaxation process once cell is stopped. Operando/in-situ (especially, synchrotron based) X-ray techniques are very powerful to obtain important information for revealing reaction mechanisms of electrodes. Our research focuses on mechanistic studies of rechargeable battery electrodes using operando synchrotron X-ray based methods such as X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. In particular, we are interested in direct visualizing the evolution of the morphology of materials during the entire battery cycling process.
국가
대한민국
소속기관
고려대학교 (학교)
연락처
책임자
유승호 seunghoyu@korea.ac.kr