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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; color:#1F497D">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; color:#1F497D">Materials Engineering Program</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; color:#1F497D">Center for Integrated Bio and Nano Systems</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:20.0pt; color:#1F497D"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt; color:#1F497D">Concentration polarization and dendrite initiation in alkali metal batteries</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt; color:#1F497D"></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt; color:#1F497D">Peng Bai</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)">Abstract</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:rgb(12,100,192)">:</span><span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:rgb(12,100,192)">Next-generation high-energy batteries require rechargeable metal anodes, but hazardous dendrites tend to form during recharging, causing
short-circuit risk and capacity loss, even with hard and stiff ceramic electrolytes, by mechanisms that still remain elusive. In this seminar, we will demonstrate a rigorous analysis of the lithium dendrite formation in liquid electrolytes, through the intimate
combination of operando experiments and novel transport models. Our results demonstrated the necessity to differentiate Li whiskers from Li dendrites, induced from different physical processes. Resolving the interfacial instability and metal whiskers led to
an ideally smooth, non-porous, ingot-type Na metal plating, which enabled the anode-free Na metal full cells with a record-high retention rate of 99.93% per cycle at 3C charge and discharge. Chronopotentiometry tests of this ideal metal electrode revealed
an inverse correlation between the penetration overpotential and the pore size of the separator, which can be captured by a new model we named as the Young-Laplace overpotential. Novel electrochemical tests of garnet-type cubic Li7-xLa3Zr2-xTaxO12 ceramic
electrolytes confirmed a similar polarization and dendrite initiation mechanism through grain boundaries. Our theoretical and experimental discoveries suggest that the success of alkali metal batteries relies on the rational control of both the interfacial
kinetics and the bulk ion transport. <br>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)">Short Bio</span></b><span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)">:</span><span lang="EN-SG" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span><span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)">Dr. Bai obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Automotive Engineering and PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He completed
his postdoctoral training in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, prior to joining Washington University in St. Louis as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering in 2017. His research
group is specialized in combining mesoscale operando experiments with physics-based mathematical models to achieve precision understanding and rational engineering of battery electrodes. Dr. Bai has published in scientific journals including Science, Energy
& Environmental Science, Joule, Advanced Energy Materials, Nature Communications, Nano Letters, etc. His won the Oronzio and Niccolò De Nora Foundation Young Author Prize from the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in 2014, and the Prize for Electrochemical
Materials Science from ISE in 2018. He received the NSF Career Award in 2021. <br>
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<span style="color:rgb(23,78,134); font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">Please contact Dr. Yan Yao (yyao4@central.uh.edu) or
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Bao (jbao@uh.edu) if you want to meet with the speaker.</span></div>
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