Researcher

My Expertise

My interests are broadly:
  • Solid state and Materials Chemistry
  • Towards the next generation of batteries: Sodium-ion & Potassium-ion batteries
  • Developing better lithium-ion batteries
  • Tuning negative thermal expansion to produce zero thermal expansion materials
  • In situ studies of materials
  • Development of new ionic conductors
  • Structural investigations using neutron and X-ray scattering
Our research approach can be defined as:
  • We chemically tune the atomic arrangement (crystal structure) of solid state materials to enhance their physical properties such as energy storage capacity, ionic conductivity or thermal expansion.
  • We use a combination of techniques to characterise our materials, including but not limited to X-ray and neutron diffraction (at the Australian Synchrotron and ANSTO), solid state NMR, electrochemical and impedance analysis, and electron microscopy.
  • Our goal is to fully characterise materials, place them into real-world devices such as batteries and solid oxide fuel cells, and then characterise how they work in these devices.
An introduction to our research can be found here: https://youtu.be/TyM716GbDfA

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Solid State Chemistry, Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering

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Biography

 

Neeraj completed his Ph.D. at the University of Sydney then moved to the Bragg Institute at Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) for a post-doc. He started at the School of Chemistry, UNSW on a Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Research Fellowship followed by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA). He is currently an Associate Professor and...view more

Location

Dalton (F12) Room 129

Contact

+61 2 9385 4714
0419439130
+61 2 9385 6141