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Campus Events
ME Seminar Series Speaker - Jeff Sakamoto, USCB
Department / Organization: Mechanical Engineering
"Mechano-electrochemical phenomena at ceramic electrolyte interfaces"
Join the ME department on September 16th at 3:30 pm in BE 241 for a presentation by Dr. Jeff Sakamoto from USCB.
The recent emergence and discovery of new ceramic ion conductors (CICs) with fast ionic conductivity at near-ambient temperatures creates the opportunity to push the frontiers of electrochemical energy conversion and storage. The ability to replace traditional liquid electrolytes with ceramics has the disruptive potential to improve safety and enable next generation technologies including solid-state batteries with metal anodes and impermeable membranes to prevent crossover in redox flow batteries for long-duration energy storage (LDES). The underlying physics that control the stability and kinetics of all solid-state interfaces are fundamentally different from interfaces in state-of-the-art Li ion technology.
Professor Sakamoto joined UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering faculty in November 2023 with joint appointments in the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Departments. He has 25 years of experience studying and translating electrochemical materials into energy storage technologies. Sakamoto’s research group designs and synthesizes ceramic electrolytes, tests their electrochemical and mechanical properties, and develops manufacturing processes to help commercialize high performance, safe, and low-cost batteries.
