Ionogel Electrolytes for Batteries and Supercapacitors

• Design composite gel electrolytes (ionogels) based on nonvolatile, nonflammable room-temperature molten salts (ionic liquids)
  
  
• Synthesize novel (co)polymers for use as ionogel scaffolds and investigating their self-assembly within ionic liquid environments (e.g. fully-zwitterionic copolymers)
  
  
• Understand how scaffold chemistry affects both rheological behavior and ion transport within ionogels

Eutectogel Electrolytes for Flexible/Wearable Electronics

• Create chemically cross-linked scaffolds for DES gel-based, eco-friendly supercapacitors
  
  
• Design fully biocompatible and stretchable DES gels for ionic skins
  
  
• Demonstrate DES gel electrolytes for next-generation sodium ion batteries