Dr Barbara Laïk
(Dr. Barbara Laïk, Paris Est Créteil University, France)
Research carried out in our laboratory is devoted to new materials of electrodes for lithium ion batteries. This presentation focuses on anodic materials, especially on two examples, silicon and ruthenium nitride. In both cases, electrochemical properties and structural evolutions are correlated in order to optimize performances in terms of specific capacity, cyclability and rate capability.
Biography of Dr Barbara Laik
Barbara Laïk is an associate professor at the Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC). She is doing her research activity in a CNRS laboratory: ICMPE (East Paris Institute of Chemistry and Materials Science) in the Group of Electrochemistry and Spectroscopy of Materials managed by Jean-Pierre Pereira-Ramos. In 2000, after obtaining her PhD at the Université Evry Val d’Essonne, she joined for a few months the research group of Pr. Jean-Marie Tarascon in the LRCS (Amiens, France), before getting a permanent position at UPEC.
She is a specialist in solid state electrochemistry. Her research activities concern electrodes materials for lithium-ion batteries and especially materials for the negative. Her works aim at providing information about electrochemical mechanisms occurring during charge/discharge of materials versus lithium and correlating electrochemical behavior to structural evolution in order to be able to optimize performances.