Current Research Projects

Modeling of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase on Silicon

Funded by: Department of Energy, via National Renewable Energy Laboratory

2020–2021

The Investigation of Si Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries

Funded by: Department of Energy, via National Renewable Energy Laboratory

2022–2024

Extensible and Community-Driven Thermodynamics, Transport, and Chemical Kinetics Modeling with Cantera: Expanding to Diverse Scientific Domains

Funded by: National Science Foundation

2019–2022

Understanding Heterogeneous Nucleation and Growth Kinetics for Innovations in Clean Energy and Water

Funded by: National Science Foundation

2019–2022

Early Career Award: Operando Neutron Reflectometry for Structure-property Relationships in Thin Films

Funded by: Department of Energy, Early Career Award

2017–2022

Previous Research Projects

Silicon Electrolyte Interface Stabilization (SEISta)

Funded by: Department of Energy, via National Renewable Energy Lab

2018-2020

Lithium-Sulfur Battery Modeling for Fundamental Insights into Elementary Electrochemical Processes

Funded by: Department of Energy, via National Renewable Energy Lab

2019–2020

FASTER-BAT: Fundamental Analysis of Safety factors in design Tools for Extreme Rapid-charging BATteries

Funded by: Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory

2018–2019

Overcoming the technical barriers to membrane distillation: Conductive heat losses and polarization phenomena

Funded by: Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation

2017–2018

MRI: Acquisition of Rocky Mountain Environmental X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Facility for In Situ Characterization of Active Surfaces

Funded by: National Science Foundation

2016–2017

Li-ion Battery Safety – Electrode Microscale to Cell Scale

Funded by: Office of Naval Research

2014–2016