dr.ing. A. Banerjee (Aayan)

I have a passion for solving in-depth and challenging problems in (electro-)catalysis, reactor design and control. This passion stems from strong foundations that I developed during my Masters in Mechanical Engineering at University of Minnesota, PhD in Chemical Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Postdoctoral research in Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion at Imperial College London.
At UT, I am now leveraging those foundations to investigate and teach the fundamental physico-chemical phenomena across multiple scales that govern the performance and life of next-gen (electro-)chemical devices e.g. hydrogen fuel cells, electrolysers, batteries, that will help accelerate the energy transition.

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Engineering & Materials Science

# Cathodes
# Electrodes
# Electrolysis
# Gases
# Oxides
# Protons
# Regenerative Fuel Cells
# Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (Sofc)

Faculty of Science and Technology (TNW), Catalytic Processes and Materials (CPM)

We aim to develop a multi-scale understanding to reliably design and control next generation (electro)chemical technologies with special focus on hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysers and redox flow batteries. To do this, we use high-fidelity integrated model frameworks that start from nanomaterial surface models and go all the way up to process flowsheet models. We combine micro-kinetic reaction modelling, structural evolution modelling, continuum transport modelling and machine learning with tailor-made experiments to develop physics-based cognitive digital twins.

See this video from the 2022 EU Hydrogen Week in Brussels highlighting one of the main themes of our research.

Or this one from 4TU Energy.

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Postma, R. S., Mendes, P. S. F., Pirro, L. , Banerjee, A., Thybaut, J. W. , & Lefferts, L. (2023). Modelling of the catalytic initiation of methane coupling under non-oxidative conditions. Chemical Engineering Journal, 454(Part 3), Article 140273. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.140273

da Silva, M. J. E. , Sybren Postma, R. , Lefferts, L. , Banerjee, A. , & Alexander Faria Albanese, J. (2023). The onset of mass transport limitations triggers the stimulus responsiveness of polymer coated catalysts. Chemical Engineering Journal, 455(Part 2), Article 140809. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.140809

Wehrle, L., Schmider, D., Dailly, J. , Banerjee, A., & Deutschmann, O. (2022). Benchmarking solid oxide electrolysis cell-stacks for industrial Power-to-Methane systems via hierarchical multi-scale modelling. Applied energy, 317, Article 119143. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119143

Huang, P., Yan, Y. , Banerjee, A. , Lefferts, L., Wang, B. , & Faria Albanese, J. A. (2022). Proton shuttling flattens the energy landscape of nitrite catalytic reduction. Journal of catalysis, 413, 252-263. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2022.06.007

Banerjee, A. (2022). Integrated Multiscale Modeling of Solid Oxide Electrodes, Cells, Stacks, and Systems. Chemie-Ingenieur-Technik, 94(5), 766-773. https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.202100199

Williams, N. J., Seymour, I. D., Leah, R. T. , Banerjee, A., Mukerjee, S., & Skinner, S. J. (2022). Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of mixed ionic-electronic conductive electrodes and their interfaces: a Ni/CGO study. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10(20), 11121-11130. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TA07351F

Wehrle, L., Wang, Y., Boldrin, P., Brandon, N. P., Deutschmann, O. , & Banerjee, A. (2022). Optimizing Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Performance to Re-evaluate Its Role in the Mobility Sector. ACS Environmental Au, 2(1), 42-64. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenvironau.1c00014

Chowdhury, R., Zhao, Y., Xia, Y., Ouyang, M., Brandon, N. , & Banerjee, A. (2021). Revisiting the promise of Bi-layer graded cathodes for improved Li-ion battery performance. Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 5(20), 5193-5204. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SE01077H

Wehrle, L., Schmider, D., Dailly, J. , Banerjee, A., & Deutschmann, O. (2021). Model-based optimization of solid oxide electrolysis cells and stacks for powerto- gas applications. In ECS Transactions (1 ed., Vol. 103, pp. 545-554). (ECS Transactions; Vol. 103, No. 1). Institute of Physics (IOP). https://doi.org/10.1149/10301.0545ecst

Chowdhury, R. , Banerjee, A., Zhao, Y., Liu, X., & Brandon, N. (2021). Simulation of bi-layer cathode materials with experimentally validated parameters to improve ion diffusion and discharge capacity. Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 5(4), 1103-1119. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0se01611j

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