Short Course #6 Electrodeposition: Fundamentals and Applications to Energy Conversion Systems
Stanko Brankovic and Giovanni Zangari, Instructors
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Electrodeposition is increasingly being used in the fabrication of materials and devices, and most recently this technique has been successfully applied to the fabrication of various components in energy conversion systems. This course will offer the opportunity to students, researchers and practitioners with a variety of technical backgrounds to be introduced for the first time or to refresh their understanding of the fundamentals of the technique, as well as to gain a perspective of its potentials. In particular, in this course the attendees will gain practical knowledge of the methods and techniques used in the synthesis of catalysts for fuel cells, components for batteries, and thin film radiation absorbers for photovoltaic devices. The course will be structured in two modules.
A. Fundamentals of Electrodeposition:
thermodynamics and kinetics
thin film formation: the art and science of controlling microstructure and morphology
proper selection of experimental parameters, and
electrochemical engineering aspects.
B. Electrodeposition for Energy Conversion Devices:
recent techniques to control film formation down at the single atomic layer: surface limited replacement reaction and electrochemical atomic layer epitaxy,
electrodeposition of electrocatalyst materials,
how to produce interpenetrating structures: application to batteries and supercapacitors, and
thin film radiation absorbers for photovoltaic devices.
About the Instructors
The two instructors have offered this course at ECS meetings in the past, where they continue to update the application module in response to new needs and opportunities in the field.
Stanko Brankovic joined the University of Houston in 2005 after spending four years in the Seagate Research Center in Pittsburgh working on magnetic thin films, and two years at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he developed surface modification techniques for the synthesis of electrocatalytic materials. He is the author of more than 25 archival journal articles and various patents on magnetic films and surface modification techniques.
Giovanni Zangari is currently a professor at the University of Virginia; he joined the faculty in 2002 after working as an assistant and then associate professor at the University of Alabama. His research is focused on the structure-properties correlation in magnetic films and on the fundamentals of alloy deposition. He has published more than 130 papers and holds 4 patents.
