Prof Ana Jorge Sobrido
PhD, FHEA, FRSC, MIMMM
Research Overview
Energy, Flow batteries, Electrocatalysis, Electrospinning, Sustainable Materials, Photoelectrochemistry, Sustainable Manufacturing, Energy storage
Interests
Prof Ana Sobrido's research focuses in the development of new sustainable materials for energy storage and conversion applications. Ana's group is interested in the design, manufacturing and testing of new materials, mostly in the freestanding form, as electrodes for energy devices including redox flow batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells and water electrolysers. Some of the processing techniques her group uses include electrospinning and 3D printing. Ana is also interested in using photoelectrochemistry and solar batteries.
Manufacturing techniques such as electrospinning and 3D-printing, enable fine control of structural properties, including pore size and size distribution, porous volume, thickness, fibre diameter as well as the surface chemistry of the resulting materials. This versatility and unique control is crucial to understanding structure-property relationships, and optimising charge transfer and mass transport processes in these electrode systems.
Ana is passionate about introducing sustainable resources in the design of new energy materials.