Dorthe B. Ravnsbæk is a Professor of Materials Chemistry and leading the Center for Sustainable Energy Materials (CENSEMAT). Her research focuses on understanding how battery materials change during operation and how these changes affect performance, lifetime, and sustainability. This knowledge helps guide the development of more robust batteries based on abundant elements, with a particular focus on sodium-ion technologies. Advanced synthesis, electrochemistry, and characterization methods are used to follow these processes in real time.
Rechargeable batteries, sodium-ion batteries, lithium-ion batteries, electrode materials, structural disorder, phase transformations, ion intercalation, operando characterization, sustainable materials for the green transition
Development of materials for sustainable rechargeable batteries.
Sodium-ion and lithium-ion batteries for applications ranging from portable electronics to large-scale energy storage.
Understanding how structural changes, disorder, and degradation affect battery performance and lifetime.
Solid-state and polymer-based battery concepts with improved safety and stability.
Design of additives and binders that improve battery capacity retention, charging performance, and lifetime.
Characterization and recycling of industrial battery materials, including black mass and end-of-life battery components.
Materials synthesis
Solid-state and solution-based synthesis.
Electrochemistry
Battery electrode fabrication, cell assembly, galvanostatic cycling, cyclic voltammetry, and pulse-based methods.
Batteries, Hydrogen Storage, Disorder and Self-Assembly at Interfaces, Sustainable Materials
