Current research themes
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Electrochemical energy storage in batteries and ultra-capacitors.
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Synthesis of transition metal oxide, mainly by solid state synthesis methods.
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Material characterization using X-ray based characterization techniques.
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Validation and study of detailed crystal structure by Density Functional Theory (DFT).
Research skills
Electrochemical study of electrode materials
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Synthesis of electrodes materials and assembling of lithium-ion cells.
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Electrochemical charge/discharge and cyclic voltammetry (CV).
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Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS).
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Galvanostatic intermittent titration technique (GITT).
Material characterization
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Measurement of lab scale XRD patterns and user of synchrotron radiation based X-rays for in situ and ex situ XRD studies.
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Rietveld refinement of XRD pattern to calculate lattice parameters, atomic co-ordinates etc.
Density functional theory
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Density of states and band structure calculations.
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Calculation of expected voltage profile of an electrode material.
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Electron density maps.
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Calculation of change in formation/Gibbs free energy of a reaction.
Computer skills
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GSASII (Intermediate level).
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Quantum Espresso (Intermediate level).
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Demeter Athena (Advanced level).
