Dr Abhishek Lahiri
Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences
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