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Enabling Rechargeable Aluminium Battery Technology
You are invited to a SafeREnergy Seminar
Date: Tuesday, 1st July 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm (AEST)
Join here: Zoom
Enabling Rechargeable Aluminium Battery Technology
Battery storage technologies are widely recognised as essential components of sustainable energy systems. Advancements in battery technologies are reshaping global energy use and are critical to enabling the clean energy transition and achieving a net-zero future. Among emerging technologies, rechargeable aluminium batteries (RABs) offer significant promise due to the high capacity, natural abundance, low cost, and inherent safety of aluminium metal.
Dr Xiaodan Huang’s research focuses on the design and synthesis of nanostructured electrode materials for a range of electrochemical energy storage systems, with particular emphasis on RABs. His work aims to address key challenges in capacity, cycling stability, and scalability to support the practical deployment of next-generation energy storage solutions. In this presentation, Dr Huang will introduce recent advances in RABs, including innovations in electrode materials, separators, and battery activation protocol. He will also discuss his collaborative efforts with industry partners to accelerate the prototyping and translation of aluminium battery technologies.
Presented by Dr Xiaodan Huang
Dr Xiaodan Huang is an ARC Future Fellow, currently working at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, the University of Queensland. He is a materials chemist with expertise in the synthesis of functional nanostructured materials for applications in energy storage and environmental technologies. Dr Huang received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Fudan University, China, in 2012. He has since held full-time research positions at Australian institutions, beginning at the University of Technology Sydney (2012-2014) and currently at The University of Queensland. Dr Huang has published over 75 peer-reviewed articles, with over 6,900 citations and an h-index of 44. Dr Huang has secured a range of competitive research grants to support his research, including an ARC Future Fellowship, AEA Seed grant, Advance Queensland Fellowship, Linkage Project, UQ Postdoctoral Fellowship, UQ Early Career Researcher grant, and UniQuest Research Projects.