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Photovoltaics

Inspired by photosynthesis, our researches focuses on dye-sensitized solar cells that uses organic materials. Compared to inorganic solar cells they are flexible, simple to produce and transparent.

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Modeling

To quicken researches, we directly simulate the behaviors of many battery technologies from the material to the system level and from Li-air to redox flow. Our results guide our experimental researchers towards the most promising combinations/materials.

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Solid state chemistry

We study the production of new promising materials for Li-ion, Na-ion... batteries with the goal to decrease their cost, their environmental impact and increase their performances.

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Synthesis, surfaces, interfaces

We are developing less energy demanding synthesis routes (e.g. biomineralization), we are studying interfaces (e.g. lithium sulfur batteries) and create original architectures (e.g. nano-confining).

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Prototyping

Thanks to our prototyping equipments we can test our fundamental research discovery at an industry-grade level: the 18650 battery cell format (used in electric vehicles).

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Electrochemistry

We study the electrochemical properties of new formulations of conventional or innovative battery electrodes (composite porous electrodes for Li or Na batteries, sintered thick electrodes, electrodes for solid batteries, etc...)

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Organic materials

Binders, separators, electrodes, grafting, electrodes... our researchers are using organic chemistry to improve batteries!

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PhD, engineering positions, permanent research positions, postdocs, internship in chemistry…

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Invited seminar Pr. Radovan Cerny

Thursday January 30 at 11 am in the HUB amphitheater, Pr. Radovan Cerny (University of Geneva) will give a seminar entitled: "Metal hydro-borates: from hydrogen storage to batteries&quo... [+]

PhD defense Ronan Leruyet

Tuesday 28 January at 10 a.m. in the Hub amphitheatre, Ronan Leruyet will defend his PhD thesis during a talk entitled : "Identification of new Mg2+ solid ionic conductors through... [+]

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CNRS Crystal medal awarded to Mathieu Morcrette 20 Nov. 2019

Vigneshwaran Thangavel during his PhD defense (05/11/2019)

Alejandro Franco with Prof. Whittingham after his inspiring keynote at ECSorg Meeting, Atlanta. 16 oct. 2019

V. Thangavel met two LRCS former students, Amina Touidjine and Mohammadhosein Safari.

231st ECS Meeting, New Orleans, USA
from l. to r. : Thierry Djenizian (MADIREL, AMU, Marseille), Garima Shukla (LRCS), Alexandar Tesfaye (MADIREL), Yinghui Yin (LRCS), Yury Gogotsi (Drexel)

Alae Eddine Lakraychi won the best poster prize during the 1st Organic Battery Days which took place on 8 and 9 June, 2017 at Uppsala University (Sweden).

2nd edition of the "Organic Battery Days" congress organised in China at Tianjin in june 2018 where Matthieu Becuwe was invited to give a talk.

Rakesh Elango during his PhD defense - September 13, 2018.

Alexis Maurel, Michel Armand and Stéphane Panier (LTI) during theECS AiMES conference organised in Cancún, Mexico (October 1, 2018).

Vigneshwaran Thangavel at Li-SM3 conference in London the 26 and 27 of April 2017.

Mariem Maiza during her PhD defense - November 23, 2018.

Mariem Maiza PhD defense November 23, 2018: photo with jury members (from left to right: C. Jallut, D. Nguyen, N. Legrand, M. Maiza, A.A. Franco, J.P. Chehab, M. Gaberscek, C. Lefrou

Prof. Miran Gaberscek seminar November 22, 2018 in the HUB, on the Lithium-Sulfur batteries modeling.

Sept. 20th, 2018 : Riku MORIMOTO (right) and Masaki MAEDA (left),
Master students from Nagoya University, join the LRCS for research training

Sept. 14th, 2018 : Patrice SIMON, co-Director of RS2E and Mathieu MORCRETTE, Director of LRCS, meet at the HUB de l’Energie

Claude DELMAS visited the HUB and gave an inspiring seminar on layered oxides for Na Batteries

Barbecue 18/07/2019

First members of the Laboratoire des Solides Pulvérulents

Pr. Bruce Dunn during his talk given at LRCS 12/07/2019

The members of LRCS in 2000

Latest publications

Density Functional Theory-Assisted 31P and 23Na Magic-Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the Na3V2(PO4)2F3–Na3V2(PO4)2FO2 Solid Solution: Unraveling Its Local and Electronic Structures

L. H. B. Nguyen, P. Sanz Camacho, T. Broux, J. Olchowka, C. Masquelier, L. Croguennec & D. Carlier

Chemistry of materials, 2019

Three-Dimensional Printing of a LiFePO4/Graphite Battery Cell via Fused Deposition Modeling

Alexis Maurel, Sylvie Grugeon, Benoît Fleutot, Matthieu Courty, Kalappa Prashantha, Hugues Tortajada, Michel Armand, Stéphane Panier, Loïc Dupont

Scientific Reports, 2019

Mechanistic Elucidation of Si Particle Morphology on Electrode Performance

Ankit Verma, Alejandro A. Franco, Partha P. Mukherjee

Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 2019

From Solid‐Solution Electrodes and the Rocking‐Chair Concept to Today's Batteries

Heng Zhang, Chunmei Li, Gebrekidan Gebresilassie Eshetu, Stéphane Laruelle, Sylvie Grugeon, Karim Zaghib, Christian Julien, Alain Mauger, Dominique Guyomard, Teófilo Rojo, Nuria Gisbert-Trejo, Stefano Passerini, Xuejie Huang, Zhibin Zhou, Patrik Johansson, Maria Forsyth

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019

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