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The Faraday Institution has funded a new research consortium on ‘Next generation lithium-ion cathode materials (CATMAT)’ to explore and develop new materials for batteries that can be used for electric vehicles. The multidisciplinary team includes the University of Bath (as lead), University of Birmingham, University of Cambridge, University of Liverpool, University of Oxford, University College London and Diamond Light Source.
The CATMAT project aims to transform the fundamental understanding of novel cathode chemistries to resolve issues that currently prevent their use in commercial batteries. The project goals are to identify highly promising new cathode materials, to scale-up their synthesis, and to test their performance in full battery cells.
Four postdoctoral research positions are available on this CATMAT project in the area of computer modelling and design of lithium battery materials within the groups of Professor Saiful Islam and Dr Ben Morgan at the University of Bath.
Group websites with research details and contact emails are as follows:
Prof Saiful Islam: http://people.bath.ac.uk/msi20 (email: [email protected])
Dr Benjamin Morgan: http://www.analysisandsynthesis.com/ (email: [email protected])
The research programme at Bath will investigate structural, transport, electronic and interface properties of lithium battery materials using density functional theory (DFT), potentials-based molecular dynamics, and cluster-expansion based Monte Carlo techniques. This work will have strong links to the experimental synthesis, structural and electrochemical work performed in the overall project.
Previous experience in computational materials science and a track record of peer-reviewed publications are essential.
These positions are available from 6 January 2020 for up to 44 months.
Interviews will be held on 26/27 November 2019.
Full job details, including the job description, person specification, and application instructions are available at https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CC7187