WE DEVELOP AND INVESTIGATE THE FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING OF ENERGY MATERIALS VIA ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING WITH THE AIM TO TAILOR AND CONTROL CORRELATED FUNCTIONS RELATED TO THERMODYNAMICS, KINETICS, AND TRANSPORT, INCLUDING PROVIDING SURFACES FOR THERMOCHEMICAL OR ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS, CONDUCTING ELECTRONS AND HEAT, AND DISTRIBUTING FLUIDS.
The Additive Manufacturing Solutions for Energy Materials (AMOTION) team is led by Dr. Davoud Jafari and the research field involves enhanced AM processes to create and test overly complex geometrical shapes and realizing hierarchical structures with graded composition and length scales (from μm to cm). We (currently) focus on 3 areas of applications: (1) HEAT TRANSFER, (2) ELECTROCHEMICAL AND (3) THERMOCHEMICAL systems. A key challenge of our research activities is to obtain control over the properties in such a way that we are able to tailor the properties for sustainable energy related issues.