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self-sufficient fuel cycle, fusion reactors must be equipped with a breeding blanket—a specialised structure that not only manages extreme heat and neutron flux but also breeds tritium from lithium
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reaction. While deuterium is abundant, tritium can only be generated from lithium, most easily from the lithium-6 isotope. The natural abundance of lithium-6 is 7.5%, but planned fusion power plants want 30
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the University of Birmingham. The studentship will develop structure-property relationships in disordered cobalt-free lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery cathode materials. The cathode represents
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prototype fusion power plant, by 2040. Proposed fusion power plants will use deuterium-tritium fusion, generating tritium in situ via the bombardment of lithium-6 with neutrons. Natural lithium is comprised
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: Full-time Place of Study: Bay Campus Project Description: Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are the backbone of modern energy storage, but further breakthroughs in energy density and cost efficiency
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Sodium-ion batteries are rapidly emerging as a powerful alternative to lithium-ion systems—offering significant advantages in cost, sustainability, and safety. To unlock their full potential
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are promising sustainable alternatives to lithium-ion systems, leveraging abundant, low-cost materials (Na, Fe, Al, biomass-derived carbon). However, a major bottleneck is the instability of the SEI formed during
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in validation on EV cells. Applicants are required to self-fund their fees and living expenses during the study period. Thermal runaway in lithium-ion battery packs poses critical safety challenges in
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safety questions: Determining optimal stored energy requirements for grid support, considering various timescales and power ratings. Reviewing and benchmarking storage technologies (lithium-ion batteries
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lithium-ion batteries are an example of such a net-zero solution. Unfortunately, those systems can undergo significant volumetric changes (so called swelling) that originate at the material level as