Pieremanuele CANEPA

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Pieremanuele CANEPA

Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
NRF fellow

(65) 6601 5064
EA-02-03
pcanepa@nus.edu.sg
https://caneparesearch.org/
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mbJs9lkAAAAJ
@Piero_Canepa
  • Education
  • Selected Awards & Honours
  • Research Interests
  • Selected Publications
Bio

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Singapore. I was a Ramsay Memorial fellow at the University of Bath (United Kingdom), and a Postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the guidance of Prof. Gerbrand Ceder.

The nature of my research work is multidisciplinary covering the fields of materials science, chemistry, computational materials science, and incorporate foundations of thermodynamics, electrochemistry, theoretical chemistry and spectroscopy; to advance the understanding and discovery of novel materials and materials for energy storage and conversion. Particular emphasis is given to ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) and high-throughput density functional theory (DFT) methods. These techniques are utilized to unravel a variety of relevant problems in novel high-energy batteries, such as, the interfaces between electrolytes and electrodes, the intercalation of ions in electrodes, and the compositional phase diagrams of these materials. My research leverages the synergy between high-throughput computations and the power of supercomputers and scientists for the discovery of novel materials and molecules. The models derived from our research contribute to the rational design of new materials for clean energy technologies, such as electrode materials for batteries, ionic conductors and liquid electrolytes for energy-dense and sustainable energy storage systems.

Education
Selected Awards & Honours

2019      Nominated as Outstanding Reviewers for Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2019      Awarded the NRF Fellowship Class 2020, with a budget of S$ 3M.

Research Interests
  • Clean and Sustainable Energy Storage and Conversion
  • ab initio Molecular Dynamics (AIMD)
  • Density Functional Theory (DFT)
  • Thermodynamics
Selected Publications
  • Deng,  F.Wei, Y.Wu, R.Seshadri, A.K.Cheetham, and P.Canepa, Understanding the Structural and Electronic Properties of Bismuth Trihalides and Related Compounds, Inorg. Chem., 59, 6, 3377–3386(2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03214  
  • Chen, S. G. Gopalakrishnan and P. Canepa, Ionic Transport in Potential Coating Materials for Mg Batteries, Chem. Mater. 31 (19), 8087–8099 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b02692
  • T. Butler, S. G. Gopalakrishnan and P.Canepa, Designing interfaces in energy materials applications with first-principles calculations, NpjComput. Mater.19 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-019-0160-9
  • Famprikis, P. Canepa, J. Dawson, M. S. Islam and C. Masquelier, Fundamentals of Inorganic Solid State Electrolytes for Batteries, Nat. Mater. 18,1278–1291(2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0431-3  
  • Canepa, J. A. Dawson, S. G. Gopalakrishnan, J. M. Statham, S. C. Parker, and M. S. Islam, Particle Morphology and Lithium Segregation to Surfaces of the Li7La3Zr2O12Solid Electrolyte, Chem. Mater. 30 (9), 3019–3027 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00649  
  • Canepa, S.-H. Bo, S. G. Gopalakrishnan, W. D. Richards, Y. Wang, S. G. Gopalakrishnan and G. Ceder, High Magnesium Mobility in Ternary Spinel Chalcogenides, Nat. Commun. 8, 1759 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01772-1
  • Canepa, S. G. Gopalakrishnan, D. C. Hannah, R. Malik, M. Liu, K. Gallagher, K. Persson and G. Ceder, Odyssey of Multivalent Cathode Materials: Open Questions and Future Challenges, Chem. Rev. 117 (5), 4287-4341 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00614
  • Canepa, S. Jayaraman, L. Cheng, N. N. Rajput, S. G. Gopalakrishnan, L. A. Curtis, K. A. Persson and G. Ceder, Elucidating the structure of the magnesium aluminum chloride complex electrolyte for magnesium-ion batteries, Energy Environ. Sci.8, 3718 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1039/C5EE02340H
  • P. Canepa, N. Nijem, Y. J. Chabal and T. Thonhauser, Diffusion of Small Molecules in Metal Organic Framework Materials, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026102 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.026102
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