Edurne Redondo

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About Edurne Redondo

Dr. Edurne Redondo is an early career researcher, specialised in applied materials science to electrochemistry fields. Her research career has followed an international course and she has made significant contributions to different fields, including environmental chemistry, molecular electronics, surface engineering, energy conversion and energy storage and biosensors, demonstrating a multidisciplinary background. During her PhD, she focused on the development of microporous carbons derived from natural wastes for their use in advanced electrochemical capacitors. She studied (i) the adaptation of the pore size to the ion sizes,(ii) the dependence of the dielectric permittivity on the pore size and the effect of the electrolyte concentration on the capacitance and resistance in electrochemical capacitors, and she also found high capacitance values for purely microporous carbons in neat ionic liquid electrolyte. She gained experience using graphene materials as additives for supercapacitors and developing novel electroanalytical technique to assess the stable potential window of electrodes for supercapacitors. In short, she became an expert in carbon nanomaterials for energy storage, specifically she developed strong skills in activated carbons and graphene, in gas adsorption and in electrochemical capacitors. During her postdocs, she exploited 3D printing technology for electrochemical devices fabrication. She focused on devising surface engineering to achieve electrically active 3D printed electrodes. She improved the electrochemical performance of 3D printed electrodes by thermal and wet-chemical methods, and she also functionalised them with 2D nanomaterials (i.e, MXenes), inorganic nanoparticles and enzymes for electrochemical applications, like electrochemical capacitors, biosensors and electrocatalysis. She also focused on the development of layered oxides for their use as electrode materials for Na-ion batteries. Furthermore, she taught at the Inorganic Chemistry laboratory classes. Currently, she is studying the charge/discharge storage mechanisms of Na-ion battery materials using operando characterisation techniques.