The fight against climate change is transitioning our society to become more electrified. But in order to make the transition to green power sources feasible and fully decarbonize the electricity generation sector, large-scale energy storage devices are needed. My research focuses on flow-based electrochemical systems for complementing renewable energy production such as redox flow batteries, water electrolyzers, and fuel cells. These systems are a complex combination of thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, and transport phenomena, but as such present the ideal problem for a chemical engineer’s skillset. Thus far, my research has primarily focused on thermodynamic impacts of ligands on copper complexes, advective transport through porous electrodes, and diffusive transport through membranes and separators through both experimental and computation techniques.
