Assistant Professor
College of Engineering | Department of Mechanical Engineering
Hometown: Westminster, MD
Prof. Eric Kazyak is an expert in battery technologies include Li-ion and next-generation Li metal batteries. His research group is exploring new, earth-abundant battery chemistries, developing new approaches to understand why batteries fail and how to improve safety, cycle life, fast-charging, low-temperature operation, and energy density.
Talks:
Electrochemical Energy Storage: Challenges and Opportunities for the Grid
Electrochemical Energy Storage will play a key role in the future electrical grid. Batteries, Fuel Cells, and production of electrochemically-rechargeable fuels offer potential solutions, but face challenges with cost, stability, and scaling. This talk will discuss the role of these technologies broadly and explore specific examples being explored in the Kazyak Lab.
Operando Characterization of Batteries: A window into performance, degradation, and safety.
Batteries are complex systems that rely on an interplay between chemistry, mechanics, charge/mass/heat transport, and materials science to operate. This talk will show how characterization of these dynamic phenomena during operation is a powerful way to understand the mechanisms that dictate performance, capacity loss, and failure. Examples will be given in Li-ion and next-generation solid-state Li metal batteries.