Yverick Rangom

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research interests: Energy Storage, Lithium-ion Batteries, Material Bonding, Composite Materials, Nano Interfaces

Biography

Assistant Professor Yverick Rangom is working toward safe fast-charging of current and future battery technologies by fundamentally transforming the chemical, electrical and mechanical properties of interfaces from the microscopic level to the nano level.

With the planned transition to battery-powered vehicles in the next decades, Dr. Rangom believes that the success of future battery research will reside in drastically improving very practical aspects of reliability and performance under abusive operating conditions on top of improving their electrochemical performance and lowering their cost. To that effect, a multi-disciplinary approach is necessary in particular the electrical and mechanical performances of nano interfaces between hetero-materials.

Dr. Rangom completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2020 at the University of Queensland in Australia. His PhD focussed on the effectiveness of improved transport of electronic and ionic charges on the fast-charging abilities of lithium- and sodium-ion batteries. Dr. Rangom was a post-doctoral fellow from 2021 to 2022 at the University of Waterloo and a former recipient of a WIN fellowship during his time as a graduate student at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Rangom is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering department of the University of Waterloo.

Education

PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, 2020
MASc, Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2014
BASc, Physics, York University, 2011
BEng, Mechanical Engineering, Université Laval, 2006

Yvrick Rangom

Research

Carbon electrodes for energy storage (graphite, hard carbon, advanced carbons and high surface area carbons)
Alkali-ion storage mechanisms
Solid electrolyte interphase formation mechanisms
Heterogeneous material joining techniques and processes
Electrically and ionically conductive materials and composites
Mechanical properties of composite materials
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
Filtration devices

Publications

Recent publications include:

Gillian F. Hawes, Sarish Rehman, Yverick Rangom and Michael A Pope, Advanced manufacturing approaches for electrochemical energy storage devices, International Materials Reviews, 2022 DOI: 10.1080/09506608.2022.2086388
Yverick Rangom, Timothy T. Duignan and X.S. Zhao, Lithium-Ion Transport Behavior in Thin-Film Graphite Electrodes with SEI Layers Formed at Different Current Densities, ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2021, 13, 36, 42662–42669
Yverick Rangom, Rohit R. Gaddam, Timothy T. Duignan, Yilan Wu, Zhe Hu and X.S. Zhao, Charge Storage Behavior of Carbon Nanoparticles toward Alkali Metal Ions at Fast-Charging Rates, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2021, 4, 11, 13272–13278
Yverick Rangom, Rohit R. Gaddam, Timothy T. Duignan, and X.S. Zhao, Improvement of Hard Carbon Electrode Performance by Manipulating SEI Formation at High Charging Rates, ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2019, 11, 38, 34796-34804
Xiao Liang, Yverick Rangom, Chun Yuen Kwok, Quan Pang, Linda F. Nazar, Interwoven MXene Nanosheet/Carbon-Nanotube Composites as Li–S Cathode Hosts, Advanced Materials, 2017, 29, 1603040
Yverick Rangom, Xiaowu (Shirley) Tang, Linda F. Nazar, Carbon Nanotube-Based Supercapacitors with Excellent ac Line Filtering and Rate Capability via Improved Interfacial Impedance, ACS Nano, 2015, 9, 7, 7248–7255

Please see Yverick Rangom's Google Scholar profile for a current list of his peer-reviewed articles.