Ph.D. Candidate (UBC); Visiting Researcher (UoA)
Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus), Kelowna, BC, Canada; Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, AB, Canada
Research Interests:
Electrode materials (anode and cathode) for Li/Na-ion batteries
Solid-electrolytes and all-solid-state Li-ion batteries
Electrochemistry
Material synthesis and characterization
Fundamental concepts of energy storage devices
Contact: e-mail: amardeep.amardeep@ubc.ca; amardeepv96@gmail.com
Currently, Amardeep is a Research Scholar (Ph.D. student; from Jan 2022 - Present) in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of British Columbia (UBC; Okanagan Campus), Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. As a research scholar, Amardeep's research work is focused on the development of potential anode materials that can replace the carbonaceous/Li-metal-based anodes which are being employed by current Li-ion battery technology (including all-solid-state Li-ion batteries). He completed his Bachelor's and Master's (July 2013 - June 2018) in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science Department (MEMS) from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, India. Following his Master's he worked as Research Fellow (July 2018 - Dec 2021) at IITB and Nagasaki University, Japan.
Previously, as a research fellow (at IITB), Amardeep's research was mainly focused on the development of the electrode materials (anode and cathode) and fabrication of full cell for Na-ion batteries. He was also involved in the development and fabrication of all-solid-state Li-ion batteries (ASSLIBs) combining advanced electrodes and invented air-stable solid-electrolytes. Amardeep had also worked extensively on electrode/solid-electrolyte interface engineering for ASSLIBs at Nagasaki University, Japan as a fellow researcher. During his tenure as a research fellow at IITB, Amardeep had guided one Ph.D. student.
Amardeep obtained his Master's degree by research from IITB under the supervision of Prof. Amartya Mukhopadhyay. His master's thesis research work had shed some light on the structural instability of garnet-based solid-electrolytes for ASSLIBs upon exposure to ambient atmosphere. Subsequently, against this drawback, he had synthesized/developed an air-stable solid-electrolyte via selecting and incorporating an unprecedented dopant. Such dopant helped suppress the reactivity of solid-electrolyte towards ambient atmosphere (i.e., moisture and CO2) upon exposure retaining its composition-phase-structure. During his masters, Amardeep worked as a teaching assistant (TA) and helped in the smooth conduction of tutorials, quizzes, examinations, and evaluation of answer scripts of two courses.
Amardeep has hands-on experience on operating XRD machine, various glove-boxes and furnaces and numerous laboratory based equipment. He gained expertise in material synthesis (via various routes, i.e., sol-gel, solid-state, hydrothermal), fabrication of electrodes and cells (coin cells, custom-made cells for in-situ investigation (i.e., synchrotron XRD, real time stress monitoring in electrodes, Raman Spectroscopy)), different electrochemical techniques (cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic cycling, EIS etc.).