个人简介

Employment Current Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Caltech ​2014 St. Elmo Brady Future Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Advisor: Andrew Gewirth ​ ​Education ​2014 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara Advisors: Ram Seshadri and Galen Stucky 2009 B.S. in Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines ​ Honors and Awards 2022 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award 2020 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering 2019 VW/BASF Science Award Electrochemistry 2019 Beckman Young Investigator Award 2018 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship 2017, 2018 Research Corporation Scialog Fellow 2017 ECS Battery Division Postdoctoral Associate Research Award 2014 UIUC St. Elmo Brady Future Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow 2013 UCSB Outstanding Service to K-12 Education Outreach Program 2012 NSF ConvEne IGERT Fellow Bio Kim was born and raised in Colorado and received her B.S. in Chemistry from the Colorado School of Mines in 2009 where she worked with Drs. John Turner and Todd Deutsch at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on photoelectrochemical water splitting. Following a year at the University of Colorado working with Prof. Gordana Dukovic on zinc oxide nanoparticle synthesis and a year in industry at NuSil Technology working on high refractive index silicones, Kim went to the University of California, Santa Barbara for her Ph.D. She worked with Profs. Ram Seshadri and Galen Stucky on next-generation batteries and received her Ph.D. in 2014. Kim was awarded the St. Elmo Brady Future Faculty Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked with Prof. Andrew Gewirth in the Department of Chemistry until the fall of 2017. Her postdoctoral work focused on the solvation structure of active cations in electrolyte solutions in Li-S and Mg batteries.

研究领域

electrochemical energy storage The battery technology that currently dominates rechargeable energy storage applications, especially in mobile applications, is the Li-ion battery. In conventional Li-ion batteries, Li-ions shuttle, or intercalate, into solid-state host lattices at two electrodes, an anode and cathode. Upon discharge, the removal of Li from the anode is accompanied by oxidation of the host lattice to satisfy charge neutrality. The electrolyte separating the anode from the cathode is ionically conductive but electronically insulating forcing the freed electrons to conduct from the anode to the cathode through an external circuit, thus providing electrical energy when the circuit is closed. The opposite process occurs at the cathode where Li intercalation is accompanied by reduction of the host lattice. Although this process is very reversible, the capacity of Li-ion cells is inherently limited by the bulky host lattices required to support intercalation processes. ​Significant opportunities for new battery technologies lie in alternative chemistries that go beyond conventional intercalation mechanisms. We are interested in exploring next-generation electrochemical energy storage systems using a bottom-up approach. By first understanding the fundamental limitations and developing the structure-property relationships governing cell performance, we develop rules that inform the design of next-generation energy storage chemistries.

Chemistry

近期论文

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“Promoting Reversibility of Multielectron Redox in Alkali-Rich Sulfide Cathodes through Cryomilling”Seong Shik Kim, David N. Agyeman-Budu, Joshua J. Zak, Andrew Dawson, Qizhang Yan, Miguel Cában-Acevedo, Kamila M. Wiaderek, Andrey A. Yakovenko, Yiyi Yao, Ahamed Irshad, Sri R. Narayan, Jian Luo, Johanna Nelson Weker, Sarah H. Tolbert, and Kimberly A. See*,Chem. Mater. 2022, accepted. “Metal-Metal Bonding as an Electrode Design Principle in the Low-Strain Cluster Compound LiScMo3O8”Kira E. Wyckoff, Jonas L. Kaufman, Sun Woong Baek, Christian Dolle, Joshua J. Zak, Jadon Bienz, Linus Kautzsch, Rebecca C. Vincent, Arava Zohar, Kimberly A. See, Yolita M. Eggeler, Laurent Pilon, Anton Van der Ven*, and Ram Seshadri*,J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, accepted. “Electrochemically Driven Transition-Metal-Free Cross-Electrophile Coupling of Alkyl Halides”Wen Zhang, Lingxiang Lu, Wendy Zhang, Jose Mondragon, Skyler D. Ware, Jonas Rein, Neil Strotman, Dan Lehnherr, Kimberly A. See*, and Song Lin*,Nature 2022, accepted. “Hysteresis in Electrochemical Systems”Anton Van der Ven*, Kimberly A. See, and Laurent Pilon,Battery Energy 2022, accepted. “Multivalent Ion Conduction in Inorganic Solids”Zachery W. B. Iton and Kimberly A. See*, Chem. Mater, 2022, 34, 881-898. “Mg Anode Passivation Caused by Reaction of Dissolved Sulfur in Mg-S Batteries” Forrest A. L. Laskowski, Steven H. Stradley, Michelle D. Qian, and Kimberly A. See*,ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021, 13, 29461-29470. “Fluoride in the SEI Stabilizes the Li Metal Interface in Li-S Batteries with Solvate Electrolytes”Skyler D. Ware, Charles J. Hansen, John-Paul Jones, John Hennessy, Ratnakumar V. Bugga, and Kimberly A. See*,ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021 13, 18865-18875. “From Solid Electrolyte to Zinc Cathode: Vanadium Substitution in ZnPS3”Andrew J. Martinolich, Skyler D. Ware, Brian C. Lee, and Kimberly A. See*,J. Phys. Mater. 2021, 4, 024005. “Controlling Covalency and Anion Redox Potentials through Anion Substitution in Li-Rich Chalcogenides”Andrew J. Martinolich*, Joshua J. Zak*, David N. Agyeman-Budu, Seong Shik Kim, Nicholas H. Bashian, Ahamed Irshad, Sri R. Narayan, Brent C. Melot, Johanna Nelson Weker, and Kimberly A. See*,Chem. Mater. 2021, 33, 378-391 (*contributed equally). “Activating Mg Electrolytes through Chemical Generation of Free Chloride and Removal of Trace Water” Seong Shik Kim and Kimberly A. See*,ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 671-680. “Selective Formation of Pyridinic-Type Nitrogen-doped Graphene and Its Application in Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes” Jacob D. Bagley, Deepan Kishore Kumar, Kimberly A. See, and Nai-Chang Yeh*,RSC Advances 2020, 10, 39562-39571. "A Super-Oxidized Radical Cationic Icosahedral Boron Cluster" Julia M. Stauber, Josef Schwan, Xinglong Zhang, Jonathan C. Axtell, Dahee Jung, Brendon J. McNicholas, Paul H. Oyala, Andrew J. Martinolich, Jay R. Winkler, Kimberly A. See, Thomas F. Miller III*, Harry B. Gray*, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*,J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 12948-12953. "Understanding the Role of Crystallographic Shear on the Electrochemical Behavior of Niobium Oxyfluorides"Nicholas H. Bashian, Molleigh B. Preefer, JoAnna Milam-Guerrero, Joshua J. Zak, Charlotte Sendi, Suha Ahsan, Rebecca Vincent, Ralf Haiges, Kimberly A. See, Ram Seshadri, and Brent C. Melot*,J. Mat. Chem. A 2020, 8, 12623-12632. "Multielectron, Cation and Anion Redox in Lithium-Rich Iron Sulfide Cathodes" Charles J. Hansen*, Joshua J. Zak*, Andrew J. Martinolich, Jesse S. Ko, Nicholas H. Bashian, Farnaz Kaboudvand, Anton Van der Ven, Brent C. Melot, Johanna Nelson Weker, and Kimberly A. See*,J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 6737-3749 (*contributed equally). "Conditioning-Free Electrolyte by Minor Addition of Mg(HMDS)2"Seong Shik Kim, Sarah C. Bevilacqua, and Kimberly A. See*,ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 5226-5233. "Dense Garnet-Type Electrolyte with Coarse Grains for Improved Air Stability and Ionic Conductivity" Xiaomei Zeng, Andrew J. Martinolich, Kimberly A. See, and Katherine T. Faber*,J. Energy Storage 2020, 27, 101128. "Effect of the Electrolyte Solvent on Redox Processes in Mg-S Batteries"Sarah C. Bevilacqua, Kim H. Pham, and Kimberly A. See*,Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 10472-10482. "Solid State Divalent Ion Conductivity in ZnPS3"Andrew J. Martinolich, Cheng-Wei Lee, I-Te Lu, Sarah C. Bevilacqua, Molleigh B. Preefer, Marco Bernardi, André Schleife*, and Kimberly A. See*,Chem. Mater. 2019, 31, 3652-3661. “Elucidating Zn and Mg Electrodeposition Mechanisms in Nonaqueous Electrolytes for Next-Generation Metal Batteries”Kim Ta, Kimberly A. See, and Andrew A. Gewirth,J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 13790-13796. “The Effect of the Hydrofluoroether Cosolvent Structure in Acetonitrile-based Solvate Electrolytes on Li+ Solvation Structure and Li‒S Battery Performance”Minjeong Shin, Heng-Liang Wu, Badri Narayanan, Kimberly A. See, Rajeev S. Assary, Lingyang Zhu, Richard T. Haasch, Shuo Zhang, Zhengcheng Zhang, Larry A. Curtiss, and Andrew A. Gewirth,ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2017, 9, 39357-39370.