{"id":115245,"date":"2022-02-28T12:51:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=115245"},"modified":"2023-10-20T11:15:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:15:38","slug":"ryan-uses-computational-models-to-design-better-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2022\/02\/28\/ryan-uses-computational-models-to-design-better-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Uses Computational Models to Design Better Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gina Mantica<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21579\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2020\/10\/Emily-Ryan_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2020\/10\/Emily-Ryan_.jpg 455w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2020\/10\/Emily-Ryan_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2020\/10\/Emily-Ryan_-189x189.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2020\/10\/Emily-Ryan_-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Emily Ryan (ME, MSE)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every time you plug in your cell phone, tiny lithium ions travel back to the battery\u2019s surface and give it the charge, or energy, that it needs to power on. But if the battery\u2019s surface isn\u2019t perfectly flat, spiky growths of metal called dendrites can form and decrease the battery\u2019s efficiency or worse, can cause short circuiting. Researchers at Boston University use machine learning to study the chemistry and physics underlying the growth of dendrites and design better batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Ryan, a Research Fellow at the Hariri Institute and Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, developed a computational model to build more efficient, rechargeable lithium metal batteries. Her lab\u2019s findings were published recently in <a href=\"https:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/5.0073358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Journal of Chemical Physics<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project was supported by the Hariri Institute\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/research\/focused-research-programs\/machine-learning-for-chemistry-material-science-focused-research-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Machine Learning for Chemistry &amp; Materials Science Focused Research Program<\/a>, which aims to advance the design and synthesis of small molecules and materials through machine learning. \u201cWith modeling, we can ask questions otherwise challenging on real surfaces. For batteries, we can play around with physics to see what phenomena are causing dendrite growth,\u201d said Ryan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Get the full story from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2022\/02\/25\/focused-research-program-faculty-member-uses-computational-models-to-design-better-batteries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Hariri Institute<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gina Mantica Every time you plug in your cell phone, tiny lithium ions travel back to the battery\u2019s surface and give it the charge, or energy, that it needs to power on. But if the battery\u2019s surface isn\u2019t perfectly flat, spiky growths of metal called dendrites can form and decrease the battery\u2019s efficiency or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":123821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,908],"tags":[379,372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128705,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115245\/revisions\/128705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}