Postdoctoral Appointee: Electrochemical Materials

The Applied Materials Division at Argonne National Laboratory has an opening for a postdoctoral appointee. The candidate will conduct experiments and develop structure-property relationships of advanced electrochemical materials, including sulfide-based solid-state electrolytes for Lithium metal batteries. This position requires experience in synthesis, electrochemistry, analytical chemistry, and data analysis.

The Applied Materials Division at Argonne National Laboratory has an opening for a postdoctoral appointee. The candidate will conduct experiments and develop structure-property relationships of advanced electrochemical materials, including solid-state electrolytes for Lithium metal batteries. This position requires experience in synthesis, electrochemistry, analytical chemistry, and data analysis.

Safety, Security, and Environmental Protection: All activities, as they apply to work performed by self or by personnel under supervision, will be executed in compliance with ES&H and security responsibilities established by Argonne National Laboratory's ES&H policies, Safeguards and Security policies, work rules, and safe practices.

This position description documents the general nature and level of work but is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all activities, duties and responsibilities required of job incumbent. Consequently, job incumbent may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements

• The prospective candidate is expected to hold a Ph.D. in chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, or a closely related field.

• Experience with materials synthesis (solid-state and liquid-phase reactions).

• Experience running electrochemical experiments and analysis, ideally experience with solid-state ion conductors.

• Experience working with S/TEM, SEM/EDS, XRD, BET, ICP, TGA/DSC, GC/MS, and XPS data.

• Experience with basic ceramic processing instrumentation (e.g., high temperature furnaces, ball milling, pressing green bodies, annealing, sintering, etc.).

• Experience developing models for structure-property relationships is desired.

• Basic background in statistics, sufficient to correlate and describe electrochemical data.

• Shilled in oral and written communications and presentations at all levels of the organization.

• A successful candidate must have the ability to model Argonne’s Core Values: Impact, Safety, Respect, Integrity, and Teamwork.

What will put you ahead:

• Experience related to i) synthesis of sulfide-based solid-state electrolytes and Lithium metal batteries, ii) engineering sulfide-based materials, iii) collecting and interpreting S/TEM data, and iv) strong experience with XPS.

• Experience with atomic layer deposition.

Job Family

Postdoctoral Family

Job Profile

Postdoctoral Appointee

Worker Type

Long-Term (Fixed Term)

Time Type

Full time

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