Doctoral Themes - Proposals

Novel polymer architectures tailored for protection of electroactive metal compounds used in electrochemical energy storage

Supervisors

Carlos Baleizão, carlos.baleizao@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Fátima Montemor, mfmontemor@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Registration Institution

Instituto Superior Técnico (Universidade de Lisboa)

Project description

Novel functional materials are the key to enable the success of the next generation of electrochemical energy storage devices. Different roadmaps stress the need for novel and smarter self-healing functionalities to improve performance and lifetime of electrodes in energy storage devices. This project contributes to this quest and addresses the next frontier of self-healing materials to be used as electrodes in supercapacitors. The work focusses on the tailoring of novel polymeric architectures sensitive to different stimuli, namely electrolyte uptake, to fabricate composite materials with electroactive metal compounds. The main goal is to design novel electrode materials that can sense their “state-of-health”, being able to activate a self-repair functionality, i.e. a functionality that repairs material own damages, enhancing its durability, while keeping the energy storage properties.

Keywords

Self healing polymers, metal oxide, nanoparticles, energy storage, supercapacitors

Societal Challenges

The proposal aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goal nº7: Affordable and Clean Energy - Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.

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