Fundamental investigations of batteries and ultra (super) capacitors – a multiscale computational approach

PI: Juarez Lopes Ferreira da Silva – USP – São Carlos Institute of Chemistry – juarez_dasilva@iqsc.usp.br

In this project we propose the application of computational techniques in the development and study of batteries, ultracapacitors and energy collectors in order to better understand, rationalize and predict physical-chemical and electrochemical mechanisms involved in such devices. Concepts, methodologies and approaches – linking the ab initi techniques to the modeling of materials in the microscale – will be applied to describe the performance of the components of the devices to be analyzed. The project will be developed along three independent lines.

Postdocs

Matheus Girotto – USP – Institute of Physics

PhD Students

Rafael Maglia de Souza – USP – Ribeirão Preto School of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters

Scientific Initiation Students

Isabel Amaral da Silva – UNIFESP – Chemistry Department