Industrial PhD at nanoCaps and USN for Tasfia Nowshin Farook on hybrid supercapacitors.

This Industrial PhD project for Tasfia Nowshin Farook has following most important contents: 1. Literature and patent search to establish proper knowledge of state-of-the-art for hybrid supercapacitors with focus on Lithium-Ion Capacitors (LICS), as those are the most relevant for the planned research projects. Here there are some commercial companies using Activated Carbon Electrodes, while there are academic research activities reporting a multitude of different electrode configurations both on the faradic battery electrode and the supercapacitor electrode making up the hybrid supercapacitor. 2. Design of research work: Here we will evaluate different device configurations and use simulation tools both to select the most promising approach and to use simulation tools to propose the first actual device to be made in tested. 3. Prototype fabrication and testing based upon the work in item 2. The test results will be bench-marked versus state-of-the-art of both commercial products and research results. 4. The laboratory results from item 3 will be used to fine-tune the simulations in item 2 to propose and build further optimised laboratory prototypes which will be tested and bench-marked. 5. Dissemination: We plan the following: 3 to 5 scientific journal articles in journals with impact factors better than 3. We plan 2 – 4 scientific conference presentations. We also plan 1 – 3 popular technical press or daily press presentations. We also plan to include the achieved scientific knowledge in academic courses for students, as this kind of electric power end electric energy storage devices will be important in the future electrification for the needed green shift, both for electronic and electric systems. 6. Following PhD courses acquiring the needed study points at USN or collaborating universities, like University of Oslo and Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

1. Literature and patent search to establish proper knowledge of state-of-the-art for hybrid supercapacitors with focus on Lithium-Ion Capacitors (LICS), as those are the most relevant for the planned research projects. Here there are some commercial companies using Activated Carbon Electrodes, while there are academic research activities reporting a multitude of different electrode configurations both on the faradic battery electrode and the supercapacitor electrode making up the hybrid supercapacitor. 2. Design of research work: Here we will evaluate different device configurations and use simulation tools both to select the most promising approach and to use simulation tools to propose the first actual device to be made in tested. 3. Prototype fabrication and testing based upon the work in item 2. The test results will be bench-marked versus state-of-the-art of both commercial products and research results. 4. The laboratory results from item 3 will be used to fine-tune the simulations in item 2 to propose and build further optimised laboratory prototypes which will be tested and bench-marked. 5. Dissemination: We plan the following: 3 to 5 scientific journal articles in journals with impact factors better than 3. We plan 2 – 4 scientific conference presentations. We also plan 1 – 3 popular technical press or daily press presentations. We also plan to include the achieved scientific knowledge in academic courses for students, as this kind of electric power end electric energy storage devices will be important in the future electrification for the needed green shift, both for electronic and electric systems. 6. Following PhD courses acquiring the needed study points at USN or collaborating universities, like University of Oslo and Norwegian University of Science and Technology. 7. We confirm nanoCaps has the financial strength for for all the 3 years' duration and also for a possible delay of more than 2 years, partly by sales income and partly by seed funding.