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Sarah Tolbert

Lead, Crosscut Theme 1 - Materials design and synthesis; Distinguished Professor, Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Materials Science & Engineering, UCLA

Consortium-related expertise

  • Synthesis and characterization of nano/micro-porous and nano/micro-structured materials for a broad range of battery applications, from active electrode materials to scaffolds for controlled deposition.
  • Synchrotron-based hard X-ray studies of batteries during electrochemical cycling, including operando X-ray diffraction, transmission X-ray microscopy and tomography, and pair distribution functional (pdf) analysis.
  • Electrochemical testing and electrochemical kinetics studies of novel electrode materials

Consortium research teams

Aim: Architecture
Crosscuts: Materials Design and synthesis (lead), Operando characterization techniques