Kwabi lab

Our mission is to engineer cheap, efficient and long-lasting electrochemical devices, by understanding the fundamental atomic and chemical interactions involved in their operation

Understanding the fundamental processes involved in the operation of electrochemical devices, such as reactant adsorption, electron/proton transfer, and bond breaking and formation is of utmost importance for engineering efficient devices for applications in energy and the environment.

We seek to uncover the relationship between interfacial charge transfer processes and bulk phase transformations for the rational development of high-power, long-lived electrochemical devices. Our approach combines model systems with experimental tools to uncover how the physics of atomic-scale processes translates to device-level behavior. This effort is highly interdisciplinary, involving experimental tools from mechanical device engineering, physical chemistry and materials science. We apply insights gained in this process to shed light on novel energy storage schemes, but other societally and industrially important applications such as solar energy conversion, materials synthesis, thermal energy storage, and carbon capture and utilization for climate change mitigation.