With increased penetration of renewable electricity from wind and solar, that modern electricity grid is expected to be more dynamic as it actively responds to supply and demand of renewable electricity. In this scenario, redox flow batteries are seen as a key technology for longer-term energy storage (time ≥ 4 hours). This SLP is an opportunity to compute the levelized cost of storage and determine the key limiting factors that prevent widespread commercialization of this technology.

Our group works on building computational models for self-organization in biological systems across scales with a vision of writing down the design principles of functional biomaterials. We use multiple tools of engineering and applied physics as the problem in hand needs. The specific problem will be decided based on the mutual interest of the student and the PI. Some example problems currently our group is interested are:

(i) Developing a particle-based simulation framework to study three dimensional self-assembly of cells.