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Sergei Vavilov

PhD student

Ph.D. thesis: “Advanced microstructure for lithium-ion battery anodes”

Supervisor: Prof. Keith Stevenson

Individual doctoral committee members: Prof. Keith Stevenson, Prof. Artem Abakumov, Prof. Pavel Troshin

Sergei studied applied mathematics and physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he worked on chiral magnetic effect for his B.Sc. thesis. In 2013, he moved to Skoltech to study Materials Science. In his M.Sc. years, he worked on polymer electrospinning for Tion corporate group, Novosibirsk, and took Material Science classes at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sergei researched mass-spectrometry data on solid—electrolyte interfaces in lithium-ion batteries for his M.Sc. thesis.

As a PhD student at Skoltech, Sergei is working on silicon and graphite anodes for lithium-ion batteries, doing electrochemical characterization and researching deposition processes for microstructuring and coatings to improve rate capacity and cycle life. He has also been a teaching assistant on Graphene-based materials and Electrochemistry courses.

Research interests: anode coatings, anode microstructure, microscopy methods, coating and deposition methods, nanoscale materials structure.

List of conferences:

  1. Vasiliy Gorev, Bogdan Uzbekov, Stepan Tolkachev, Andrey Vyatskikh, Alexandra Gorkina, Ivan Mik, Sergey Vavilov. Novel material providing HEPA class air filtration (poster). Russian-American Research Symposium, Moscow, December 2014.
  2. Sergei Vavilov, Keith J. Stevenson. Characterization of solid–electrolyte interfaces by ToF-SIMS and PCA (poster). 1st Annual Workshop of Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEE CREI) ’Electrochemical Energy Storage: Challenges & Prospects’, Moscow, June 2015.
  3. Sergei Vavilov, Stanislav Evlashin, Ye Lin Thu, Svetlana Lipovskikh, Andrei Dolocan, Carl V. Thompson, Keith J. Stevenson. Silicon-germanium bilayers as Li-ion battery anodes (poster). Topical problems of modern electrochemistry and electrochemical materials science, Moscow region, September 2017.
  4. Sergei Vavilov, Keith J. Stevenson. The variety of silicon forms in lithium-ion batteries (poster). Skoltech Gen-Y Young Scientists Cross-Disciplinary conference, Sochi, September 2017.
  5. S. A. Evlashin, K. V. Mironovich, S. A. Dagesyan, P. V. Dyakonov, S. M. Ziryanov, A. I. Zotovich, S. Vavilov, N. V. Suetin, I. S. Akhatov. Doped Carbon NanoWalls for Power Sources (poster). Carbon, Madrid, July 2018.
  6. Sergei Vavilov, Stanislav Evlashin, Sergei Svyakhovskiy, Timofey Kruglov, Keith J. Stevenson. Microstructured anodes with anisotropic tortuosity for high rate capacity (poster). Topical problems of modern electrochemistry and electrochemical materials science, Moscow region, September 2018.