Overview

I started my PhD in October 2019 after graduating with a MPhys with Honours in Physics in July that same year. During my Masters project I worked with Dr. Steven Hepplestone using Density Functional Theory (DFT) to investigate the effect of Hydrogen and Oxygen adsorption on monolayer, bilayer and heterobilayers of PtS2 and WTe2 transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), for the purposes of water splitting. 

My PhD project is titled 'Hybrid 2D Heterostructures For Energy Storage' and is supervised by Dr. Steven Hepplestone and Prof. Saverio Russo. The project involves investigating layered materials, such as Graphite, TMDCs and transition metal oxides, for use as Lithium ion battery electrodes. During this time, I have also extended the work of my Masters project by investigating the TMDCs MoS2 and PdSe2 in more depth as a potential water splitting device by studying how the surfaces of these materials affect the energetics of the sub reactions involved in the water splitting process.

Education:

2019-current PhD Physics and Engineering at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Metamaterials (XM2).

2015-2019 MPhys (Hons) Physics at the University of Exeter.

2013-2015 A-levels (Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry) at The Sandon School.

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Publications

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2024

• Baker E. (2024) Applications of Transition metal dichalcogenides and Transition metal dioxides for renewable technologies.
• Price CJ, Baker EAD, Hepplestone SP. (2024) Properties of Layered TMDC Superlattices for Electrodes in Li-Ion and Mg-Ion Batteries, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, volume 128, no. 5, pages 1867-1876, DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c05155. [PDF]
• Baker EAD, Price CJ, Hepplestone SP. (2024) Computational Study of the Enhancement of Graphene Electrodes for Use in Li–Ion Batteries via Forming Superlattices with Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, volume 128, no. 2, pages 723-731, DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c06300. [PDF]

2023

• Price CJ, Baker EAD, Hepplestone SP. (2023) First principles study of layered transition metal dichalcogenides for use as electrodes in Li-ion and Mg-ion batteries, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, volume 11, no. 23, pages 12354-12372, DOI:10.1039/d3ta00940h. [PDF]
• Price CJ, Pitfield J, Baker EAD, Hepplestone SP. (2023) First principles study of layered scandium disulfide for use as Li-ion and beyond-Li-ion batteries, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, volume 25, no. 3, pages 2167-2178, DOI:10.1039/d2cp05055b. [PDF]

2022

• Baker EAD, Pitfield J, Price CJ, Hepplestone SP. (2022) Computational analysis of the enhancement of photoelectrolysis using transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, volume 34, no. 37, pages 375001-375001, DOI:10.1088/1361-648x/ac7d2c. [PDF]

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