Main Research Activities
The aim of this project is to develop redox-flow batteries based on the use of lithium or sodium insertion materials in the presence of redox mediators in aqueous electrolytes at neutral pH. We would like to design and optimize transition metal complex-based electrolytes (posolyte/negolyte) using a dual experimental-modeling approach. The project is co-supervised by Prof. Emmanuel Baudrin (experimental, LRCS) and Ass. Prof. Piotr de Silva (DFT modeling, DTU) and is funded by ALISTORE-ERI.Academic Training
M.Sc. in chemistry at the American University of Beirut, AUB, 2019
Professional skills
Cyclic voltammetry, battery cycling, DFT calculations, synthesis of transition metal complexes
Running Projects
Financed by ALISTORE - ERI
Density Functional Theory-Based Protocol to Calculate the Redox Potentials of First-row Transition Metal Complexes for Aqueous Redox Targeting Flow Batteries
Noura Rahbani, Prof. Piotr de Silva, Prof. Emmanuel Baudrin
ChemSusChem, 2023
LiFePO4-ferri/ferrocyanide redox targeting aqueous posolyte: Set-up, efficiency and kinetics
Jose F. Vivo-Vilches, Arina Nadeina, Noura Rahbani, Vincent Seznec, Dominique Larcher, Emmanuel Baudrin
Journal of Power Sources, 2021