Discovery of novel materials for battery electrodes and electrolytes.
Rechargeable batteries are essential to building a sustainable energy landscape. Many new battery technologies (beyond Li-ion) are predicted to have improved safety, capacities, and lifetimes. Research in the Radomsky lab focuses on discovering new materials for fluoride-ion batteries (FIBs), which have not been realized due to the lack of materials with high F-ion conductivity. We use a combination of computational and experimental methods to explore new crystal structures, predict their properties, synthesize them via solid-state synthesis, and characterize them via diffraction and microscopy.
