"Whether you believe in Destiny or not, DESTINY provides opportunity to become a scientist with an outstanding network and exciting challenges."

Anastasia GREBENSHCHIKOVA

TOPIC 1-7 Development of new sulfate-containing cathode materials based on abundant elements for Na-ion batteries

My passion for chemistry and my willingness to use my skills of inorganic chemistry and materials science in applicable devices promoted my interest to batteries. During my Master's degree at Moscow State University in Russia, I focused on studying Li-ion related systems and worked on up-scaling and prototypes. Taking into account that, it was love at first sight when I first read about Na-ion DESTINY PhD topic “Development of new sulfate-containing cathode materials based on abundant elements for Na-ion batteries”.

My project is distributed between 3 labs: ICMCB in Bordeaux, LRCS in Amiens and CEA Liten in Grenoble. This combination of the top experts, state-of-art equipment and dynamic colleagues greatly inspires me and enables to learn best practices. Since the beginning of my PhD, I have gained a lot of experience in both synthesis and characterization of the positive electrode materials.

In addition to various training opportunities, the DESTINY project also provides the chance to learn about new cultures and expand my network. Project meetings are always attended by industry representatives, so DESTINYees are not only educated in the scientific world, but also have clear and up-to-date view of application of research achievements!