Lithium ion batteries

Movement of Li in battery electrodes is studied in order to understand the underlying mechanisms, the effect of the local environment. In addition, we are interested in learning more about capacity fading mechanisms in lithium ion batteries.

More details can be found in the following publications:

• synthesis of graphene sheets from single walled carbon nanohorns: Novel conversion from cone to sheet morphology, R Prakash, S Sahu, V Rikka, M Jagannatham, P Haridoss, A Chatterjee, ..., Materials Research Express 4, 035008, 2017
• Flagellar filament bio-templated inorganic oxide materials – towards an efficient lithium battery anode, SN Beznosov, PS Veluri, MG Pyatibratov, A Chatterjee, DR MacFarlane, ..., Nature Scientific Reports 5, 7736, 10, 2015
• Nudged-Elastic Band Study of Lithium Diffusion in Bulk Silicon in the Presence of Strain, P Haldar, A Chatterjee, Energy Procedia 54, 310–319, 2, 2014