Main Research Activities
The advent of slurry redox flow batteries for grid storage allows utilization of active materials used in portable lithium ion batteries for large scale applications. Such a system lies in the overlap of fluid dynamics, electrochemistry, and particle suspension dynamics, making optimization a highly complex multidisciplinary challenge. The goal of this thesis is to build an in-house modeling tool based on kinetic monte carlo to capture different physical phenomena to generate an optimized redox flow battery with appropriate composition of active material and conducting carbon suspension in electrolyte. The project is built on the basis of expertise in electrochemistry from LRCS, mathematics in LAMFA and the modeling platform MeCS, UPJV, Amiens in collaboration with expertise in microfluidics from BMBI, UTC, Compiègne.Academic Training
- PhD (Prof. Alejandro Franco(LRCS), Dr. Anne-Virginie Salsac (BMBI,UTC, Compiègne), 2015-2018, Sujet: Optimization of Redox Flow Batteries through modeling and experiment)
- Ingenieur d’etude (Prof. Alejandro Franco, Mathieu Morcrette (LRCS), Sujet: Optimization of fabrication of battery electrodes through modelling)
- Master : Erasmus Mundus, MESC (Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage), 2012-2014
(S1,S4 : Aix-Marseille Universite, S2 :Warsaw University of Technology, S3 :Universite de Picardie Jules Verne)
Professional skills
Running Projects
WONDERFUL/ 3 years / Region Picardie
Gaining Insight into the Electrochemical Interface Dynamics in an Organic Redox Flow Battery with a Kinetic Monte Carlo Approach
Jia Yu, Garima Shukla, Rocco Peter Fornari, Oier Arcelus, Abbos Shodiev, Piotr de Silva, Alejandro A. Franco
Small, 2022
Interphases in Electroactive Suspension Systems: where Chemistry meets Mesoscale Physics
Garima Shukla, Alejandro Franco
Batteries & Supercaps, 2019
Handling Complexity of Semi-solid Redox Flow Battery Operation Principles Through Mechanistic Simulations
Garima Shukla, Alejandro A. Franco
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2018
Multiscale Simulation Platform Linking Lithium Ion Battery Electrode Fabrication Process with Performance at the Cell Level
Alain Ngandjong, Alexis Rucci, Mariem Maiza, Garima Shukla, Jorge Gabriel Vazquez-Arenas, and Alejandro A. Franco
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2017
Self-organization of Electroactive Suspensions in Discharging Slurry Batteries: A Mesoscale Modeling Investigation
Garima Shukla, Diego Del Olmo Diaz, Vigneshwaran Thangavel, Alejandro A. Franco
Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2017