Research

KOREA UNIVERSITY EML

Energy storage

Li-ion batteries

Subject 01

Advanced high-performance silicon/silicon composite design for Li-ion battery anodes

Subject 02

Designing Li-ion battery storage materials based on transition materials through various synthesis methods

Na-ion batteries

Subject 01

Synthesis of functional nanocomposites Na-ion cathode for high-rate cyclablity

Subject 02

Developing thermodynamically stable phase via compositional-engineering for high-voltage Na-ion cathode

Li-S batteries

Subject 01

Hierarchically porous carbon based physical adsorbent for inhibiting shuttling effect of lithium polysulfides

Subject 02

Transition metal compound based bifunctional heterocatalyst with enhanced chemical immobilization and electrochemical conversion of lithium polysulfides

Subject 03

Designing synergistic complex structure with conductive material and electrochemical catalyst for high-performance Li-S batteries

Li/Zn-air batteries

Subject 01

Developing transition metal compounds as an efficient electrocatalytic cathode for high-rate Li-O₂ batteries

Subject 02

Boosting cathode surface-adsorption reaction induced organogermanium nanowires for high-efficient lithium-oxygen batteries

Subject 03

Porous carbon sturutures for oxygen evolution catalysis in Zn-air batteries

Aqueous batteries

Subject 01

Phase transformation through introduction of pillar ion/molecule for reversible Zn-ion intercalation/deintercalation

Subject 02

Design of new cathode materials having structural stability and fast electrochemical kinetic for aqueous zinc-ion batteries

Metal anodes

Subject 01

Developing 3D porous lithiophilic framework suppressing volume expansion and lithium dendrite growth for stable lithium metal anode

Solid state electrolyte

Subject 01

Design of high Li-ion conductors and better air-stability of all-solid-state batteries

Development of a new wet-chemistry synthetic method for mass production.

Subject 02

Mechanically interlocked polymer electrolyte with built-in fast molecular shuttles for all-solid-state lithium batteries