The AMEE Laboratory welcomes collaborations with researchers at universities, national laboratories, and industry who are interested in understanding electrochemical reaction mechanisms through advanced operando characterization.
Our experimental capabilities can provide complementary insight into research problems that are difficult to resolve using electrochemical measurements alone. Collaborative projects may integrate operando stress, strain, or interfacial measurements with synthesis, spectroscopy, microscopy, computational modeling, and electrochemical analysis.
Researchers interested in collaborative projects involving operando electrochemical stress, strain, or interfacial characterization are encouraged to contact the laboratory to discuss potential applications and experimental requirements.
We particularly welcome collaborations with researchers specializing in multiphysics modeling, operando surface chemistry and operando synchrotron-based characterization techniques to advance our understanding of chemo-mechanical deformation mechanisms in battery materials and interfaces.
Potential Collaboration Areas
- Battery Chemo-Mechanics: Understanding stress and strain evolution, phase transformations, and degradation in next-generation batteries.
- Solid-State Battery Interfaces: Investigating mechanical deformation and electrochemical instabilities at solid electrolyte interfaces.
- Electrochemical Interfaces and Interphases: Understanding SEI/CEI formation, interfacial reactions, and mechanical signatures of surface processes.
- Emerging Battery Technologies: Investigating lithium-, sodium-, potassium-, aqueous zinc-, and metal-air battery systems.
- Critical Mineral Recovery: Investigating electrochemical extraction pathways and the mechanical signatures of deposition and intercalation, including uranyl systems.
- Corrosion and Materials Processing: Investigating electrochemical stress, oxide growth, and mechanical degradation.
Dr. Özgür Çapraz
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical, Biochemical
and Environmental Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Email: capraz@umbc.edu
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