Location: | Sheffield |
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Salary: | £37,099 per annum. Grade 7 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 21st May 2024 |
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Closes: | 27th May 2024 |
Job Ref: | UOS040993 |
Contract Type: Fixed-term until 8th November 2024
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Location: Sheffield, East Campus
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly self-motivated and driven research associate with a background in chemical engineering (or a related discipline)
This role forms part of the battery manufacturing research group at the University of Sheffield. The post holder will work on the Xerode – Dry Printing Accelerator research grant, funded by the University of Sheffield.
The electrodes in a lithium-ion battery control many crucial performance characteristics of the final cell. State of the art electrode manufacturing uses a wet mixing and coating process to deposit the electrode. This is a highly productive process but uses very large amounts of solvent and factory footprint to accommodate the drying process.
This project aims to overcome limitations of the current process, providing a method to print dry, formulated electrodes directly onto a current collector, with positional and compositional printing control for advanced customer-driven designed electrodes. As a Research Associate, working on Xerode you will research and develop novel particle engineering and deposition techniques, to produce powders suitable for dry printing of lithium-ion battery electrodes.
The successful candidate will work under the guidance of Dr Denis Cummings in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
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