Acidic Zinc-MnO2 Battery Scientist

Acidic Zinc-MnO2 Battery Sr Scientist – Leader with 3+ years of industry experience working on theory and development of acidic aqueous Zn-MnO2 batteries. 

Details

Must have experience working on anode, cathode, or full cell development of Acidic Zinc-MnO2 cells. Help make 0.5mm thick cathodes with teflon, full cells, test, and characterize them.  Spend time reading relevant research papers, provide theory of how our battery works, provide ideas how to improve our performance, develop an understanding of the 2nd electron of MnO2 and how to cycle it long term, prioritize our product development roadmap, keep our weekly project tracker up to date. create a schedule / gantt chart to estimate our development work to the start of production manufacturing, look into setting up DOE’s, assess competing technologies, and help apply to grants. Research relevant machine learning models like DFT, Phase-Field Modeling, the Smoothed Boundary Method, Physics-Based Continuum Modeling, etc.

The minimum experience they must have is:

·        A great understanding of inorganic chemistry, electrochemistry, or material science

·        3 years of industry experience working on theory and development of acidic Zn-MnO2 batteries. 

·        Working on the structural stability of MnO2

·        Work to stop the inert / non-cycling compounds that are created in the anode and cathode.

·        Work to reduce HER and corrosion

·        Work to cycle the second electron of MnO2

·        Work to increase the nominal voltage

·        Know how to make, test, and characterize pouch cells

·        Must know how to design a full Zn-MnO2 battery cell and extrapolate lab cell data to full cell data such as specific energy density.

·        Able to run projects and lead teams

·        Excellent communication skills

Terms

·        They could work remote but would need to spend at least 1 week every two months in our lab. They would need to pay for travel.

·        We are a bootstrapped start-up so the pay is low now. The pay would range from $50k to $140k/year and up to 10% equity.  More when we are funded

·        If this person could get our cells to 150Wh/kg at 200 cycles at 1C within 2 months, they will be considered for a partnership and a lot more stock.