@ocapraz.bsky.social
Associate Professor, The University of Maryland - Baltimore County Batteries and Energy Storage
If you're at ECS, I have two talks this week. Come say hi. #ECSMontreal #ECS247
20.05.2025 10:57 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The project is about developing next-generation battery technologies by developing innovative polymer/gel electrolytes and designing strategies to mitigate chemo-mechanical instabilities in the electrode materials. The details of the position will be discussed with the selected candidates.
19.05.2025 13:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our group has an opening for two postdoctoral research positions on battery materials. For more info & apply, please see the link below
apply.interfolio.com/167962
I am at @ECSorg meeting in Montreal so feel free to reach out if you want to know more about it as well.
Stay tune for more as Bret Marckx is working relentlessly to investigate charge storage mechanisms on cathode materials by synchronizing operando mechanical techniques such as curvature, DIC and QCM-D measurements.
16.03.2025 17:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Many congrats to Bret and Hunter for publishing study about probing electrochemical strains in aqueous Zn battery cathode during cycling. This is the first study from our group on aqueous battery cathodes and it is highlighted as "ACS Editor Choice".
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Are you interested in aqueous batteries or do you have exciting science to share? Check out "Next Generation Aqueous Batteries: Electrodes, Electrolytes, and Interphases " symposium at 248th ECS - The Electrochemical Society Meeting in Chicago, IL on October 12-16, 2025.
06.03.2025 13:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Once the first Ph.D. student and became a dear friend, Bertan stopped at our home on his way to Michigan from Colorado 😇🤣 before starting his new job. We had a wonderful time last weekend in snowland MD.
30.01.2025 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our group has received an NSF-DEVCOM INTERN Supplementary award. Bret Marckx will spend about 5 months at the Battery Science Branch in DEVCOM Army in 2025. This is a unique opportunity for Bret to gain experience at the Army Research Lab and will be beneficial for his career growth
18.12.2024 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Many thanks to Hoffman Richard from Bruker and Archana Jaiswal from Nanoscience Instruments for the on-site installation and training graduate students, Debash, Minal and Bret in the group. @cbee-umbc.bsky.social
17.12.2024 01:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It was a long and exciting day in our laboratory! We installed the ALPHA-II FT-IR and will move it inside the glove box after new year! We also installed QCM-D QSense Explorer instrument with electrochemical module, and even we performed first electrodeposition of MnO2 electrode on it today!
17.12.2024 01:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Very excited about this new grant from DOE to work on the chemo-mechanics of electrochemical materials for environmental remediation with Prof. Xiaowei Teng at WPI! We will be looking for a prospective Ph.D. student to join our group in Fall 2025. Please RT!
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