What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrochemical Engineering Postdoctoral Scholar position at LBL?
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's (LBNL) Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division has an opening for an Electrochemical Engineering Postdoctoral Scholar to join the team.
The Electrochemical Engineering Postdoctoral Scholar Employee will conduct experimental work on CO2 electrolyzers and / or other related electrochemical devices and their components in The Energy Conversion Group in the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division of the Energy Technologies Area. The work will entail membrane-electrode assembly device fabrication, testing and associated electrochemical and physical diagnostics, component characterization and integration. You will collaborate with research partners to develop and utilize novel characterization and diagnostic methods to identify critical performance and durability barriers for CO2 electrolyzers and provide and validate strategies to overcome them. In addition to cell level testing and integration, particular emphasis will be on understanding electrochemistry and homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions and component material properties including structure / function relationships across multiple time and length scales.
What You Will Do :
- Develop testing protocols to validate and examine performance and degradation behavior of CO2 electrolyzer components (e.g. ionomer, catalyst and membrane degradation, flooding and salting issues and carbon crossover).
- Develop experiments and protocols to identify limiting factors in the performance and durability of CO2 electrolyzers and their components and propose novel mitigation strategies.
- Rational design of heterogeneous reaction environment to tune selectivity of CO2 reduction under conditions where cations are limited (for instance, pure water-fed conditions).
- Develop coating strategies to fabricate CO2 electrolyzer components (e.g. catalyst coated substrates or bipolar membrane).
- Publish original research in peer-reviewed journals; contribute to scientific publications; present research through talks and posters at conferences, workshops, and multi-investigator meetings.
- Adhere with the Berkeley Lab and ETA safety requirements.
- Work on meeting milestones and reporting them to DOE and industrial sponsors.
- Collaborate and work with a team of researchers from diverse backgrounds, and interface with research teams across industry, academia, and national laboratories.
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