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This four-year fully funded PhD project revolves around theoretical predictions for electrochemical reactions at interfaces between solid electrodes and aqueous electrolytes. These reactions are of importance in for instance hydrolysers, where electron transfer between the electrode and a (de-)hydrated ion occurs during redox reactions. ImageThis multiscale challenge involves the integration of statistical physics and chemical kinetics with transport theory, electrostatics and hydrodynamics. Theory development and numerical calculations in direct contact with computational and experimental groups are foreseen. This project addresses several aspects of the important but ill-understood coarse-graining methods that are required to bridge the atomic and the macroscopic scale.
Would you like to use advanced electron microscopy to investigate how electrochemistry takes place at the nanoscale, for sustainable energy storage? Do apply! Battery and fuel cell technologies are key in the energy transition; the storage of green electricity generated through sustainable energy resources like wind and solar, is becoming increasingly important. To obtain advanced understanding of the electrochemistry taking place at the electrode-electrolyte interfaces of batteries, the direct imaging of these processes in real time and at high resolution is urgently needed. To this end, we will perform electrochemistry inside the transmission electron microscope, which is bound to provide exciting insights.
Electrochemical devices such as batteries, fuel cells, and electrolyzers play a key role in the energy transition, facilitating electrical energy storage and the production of green chemicals. This PhD project focuses on resolving the molecular-level interactions that occur at the interface between the electrodes and the electrolyte of such devices. At this interface, the interactions between the electrode surface, reactants, products, adsorbates, ions, and water molecules determine how well the electrochemistry performs and how stable the device is during prolonged operation.
Enhance the fundamental understanding of the structure of electrode-electrolyte interfaces and their response to applied voltages and imposed currents. Perform high resolution Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) experiments and analyze them in collaboration with a theory and molecular simulation PhD-colleague at Leiden University and with your colleagues in the Physics of Complex Fluids (PCF) and Photocatalytic Synthesis groups (PCS) at the University of Twente.
Electrochemical processes play a major role in the current energy transition. They make batteries, fuel cells and electrolysers work. Despite this importance, the properties of electrode – electrolyte interfaces at which these processes occur, are rather poorly understood at the molecular level. To address this issue, this project aims to combine atomic force microscopy (@University of Twente) with theory and modeling (@Leiden University).
Understanding and predicting properties of electrochemistry on the nanoscale is crucial for the development of the next generation devices needed in society’s electrification transition. One of the open intriguing scientific questions is how activity at one site of a nanoelectrode in confinement, a.k.a. a hot spot, can influence nearby site-activity, through either positive or negative feedback, e.g. via local electrochemical potential or concentration fluctuations. This PhD project aims to elucidate this process using advanced transition path sampling simulations, in which many short reactive trajectories are generated via molecular dynamics, based on classical force fields, density functional theory and neural network potentials.
This PhD project aims at investigating the fundamental processes in nanoscale electrochemistry by exploiting the information contained in the electronic noise of electrochemical currents, and the correlations in the noise for multiple nanoprobes. The research project is financed by the NWO ‘Zwaartekracht’ program Advanced Nano-Electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands (ANION).
How do charge and mass transport affect the effectiveness of advanced materials for the energy transition? Using microfabrication technology, you will fabricate model systems to study fundamental aspects of electrochemical processes under nanoscale confinement and explore novel concept to enhance them. Join our multidisciplinary team spanning two departments at the University of Twente for a cutting-edge research project!