Artem Faustov

Leading of Li-ion projects: development of electrode's process fabrication, electrolytes and prototyping of Li-ion cells. Achievements: 1. Cell technology for Ni- and Co-free cathode material was developed for 18650 formats with 175Wh/kg and +2500cycling. Technology includes electrodes parameters, fabrication processes (both, for cathode and anode) and own LiPF6-free electrolyte formulation. 2. Different electrolytes were developed, for increase cyclability at elevated temperatures, for LFP, NMC, LCO, LMFP.

Leading of Lithium-ion projects: electrode parameters and process fabrication optimisation, electrolyte formulation development, prototyping of Lithium-ion cylindrical and pouch cells.

Project leading of the development of high-energy Li-ion pouch cells and batteries. Achievements: 1. The developed electrode's preparation and electrolyte composition allowed to reach for 15Ah Li-ion pouch cells 260Wh/kg with 1000+ cycle life. 2. The safety of pouch cells was improved by developing a technology of venting cases.

Leading in the development, scaling-up manufacturing of Li-ion and primary Lithium-based cells.Technical support with manufacturing issues.

R&D of membrane electrode assemblies manufacturing (MEA) for hydrogen fuel cells. Achievements: The developed technologies of catalysts inks and MEA-s allowed to 40% reducing the areal loading of precious metal-based catalysts with improving the durability of fuel cells.

Electrode development for high-power Li-ion cells. Achievements: The developed technology of LFP-based cathode slurry preparation allowed to increase the areal capacity without losing electrode's performance. This led to increasing of capacity Li-ion cells for more than 30% (particularly, for 18650 cells, from 0.85Ah to 1,2Ah) without loss of power capability and cyclability.

Research of physical and electrochemical properties of synthesized carbon-based materials. Achievement: The correlation between the doping of carbon films and their electrochemical properties as anode electrodes for lithium-ion and conductive base for catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells was observed.

Diploma thesis: Investigation of magnetic domain structure of ferrimagnetic fraction of Red Sea basalts. Achievement: The methodology was developed allowing to encrypt parameters of magnetic domains based on the results of magnetic force microscopies using Matlab.