Paul Braun
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Electrodeposition of high capacity nanostructured battery electrodes for conventional and solid-state batteries
Conventional batteries contain electrodes consisting of a mixture of active material, binder, and conductive additives. Via electrodeposition, we have realized nearly dense crystallographically oriented nanostructured electrodes which provide near-theoretical capacities and attractive rate performances. We will discuss the electrodes and solid-state and conventional batteries built using electrodeposited electrodes.
About Paul Braun
Prof. Paul V. Braun is the Director of the Materials Research Laboratory, the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and is a part-time faculty member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The Braun group synthesizes and studies materials with optical, electrochemical, thermal, mechanical, and transport properties that often emerge from the carefully crafted 3D nano- and mesoscale architectures of these materials. Recent priority research areas include materials for electrochemical energy storage, advanced optics, and the control of heat.
Prof. Braun received his B.S. degree with distinction from Cornell University, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois. Following a postdoctoral appointment at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Prof. Braun joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1999. Prof. Braun has co-authored a book, about 350 peer-reviewed publications, been awarded multiple patents, and co-founded four companies. He is the recipient of a Beckman Young Investigator Award, the Robert Lansing Hardy Award from TMS, and a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Prof. Braun is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Inventors, and the American Association of Arts and Sciences.
