For energy storage, we are interested in how differences in atomic structure motifs affect ionic and electronic transport, structural stability with cycling, and how to modify these through choice of constituent elements.
This work often involves metastable or disordered materials – sometimes identifying relationships that bridge families of materials that are individually well-understood.
At the moment, this work emphasizes computational and experimental approaches to understand relationships of inter- and intra-polyhedral connectivity on stability and rate capabilities. In addition, we are interested in the balance of long-range and short-range structure in many-principle-component oxides.
