Dr Abhishek Lahiri
Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
Research area(s)
My research focuses on
1. Developing sustainable battery electrodes for Li, Na, Zn and Al batteries
2. Understanding and engineering the battery electrode/electrolyte interface to improve the device performance
3. Developing porous materials for photo/electrocatalysis and understanding the mechanism using both experiment and modelling
4. Battery recycling technology
Research grants and projects
Research Projects
Grants
Funder: Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Duration: October 2022 - September 2024
Project details
Research Projects
Principle Investigator: Biotechnological route for sustainable recovery of high-value metals, BBSRC (£374k), February 2023-2025
Principle Investigator: Engineering Robust cathodes for sustainable energy storage, EPSRC ‘NIA’ (£365k), September 2022-2024
Principle Investigator: Mixed anion electrolytes for sustainable and high energy density Al-ion batteries, Royal Society (£20k), March 2022-May 2023
Principle Investigator: Sustainable, Low-cost and Biocompatible Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage (PI); Brunel Research Initiative & Enterprise Fund (£15k), March 2021-September 2022
Consultancy projects
Consultancy projects on electroplating and hydrogen production, (£22k), September-December 2022