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Postdoctoral Associate Opportunity: From Waste Tires to Electrode Materials for Batteries and Supercapacitors
The Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering has an excellent opportunity for a Postdoctoral Associate in the Amit Goyal research group to conduct applied research in synthesis, device fabrication and characterization of Na-ion based batteries and supercapacitors using carbon electrodes derived from waste tires.
The Work Involves
Term: 2-3 years depending on performance
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The Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering has an excellent opportunity for a Postdoctoral Associate in the Amit Goyal research group to conduct applied research in synthesis, device fabrication and characterization of Na-ion based batteries and supercapacitors using carbon electrodes derived from waste tires.
The Work Involves
- Developing novel methodologies for extracting activated carbon from waste tires
- Fabricating coin cells
- Performing full electrochemical characterization towards realizing performance approaching the best reported performance for Na-ion batteries.
- In addition, the project involves design and fabrication of supercapacitors from tire-derived carbon and having high performance.
- It is expected that the Postdoctoral Associate will work independently, establish all experimental processes and instrumentation for the work.
Term: 2-3 years depending on performance
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