Tadhg Kennedy
Dr Tadhg Kennedy is a Lecturer and Principal Investigator in the Department of Chemical Sciences in the University of Limerick. He is an expert in the development of nanostructured materials for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries.
Tadhg’s specific research interests lie in the development of nanostructured alloying anode materials. He has been successful in securing >€2.4M from national, international and industry sources as either PI or co-applicant in the last 3 years. He is coordinator of the TRIDENT project, which has received €3.65 million in funding from the Irish Government through the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund. The goal of the project is to develop a low-cost, high-performance sodium-ion smart battery system for residential energy storage.
He is also PI on a number of other battery related projects including a grant from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland for low-cost battery development for grid-scale storage of intermittent renewable energy. His other research interests lie in the development of polymer nanocomposites with enhanced electrical properties.
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High-performance germanium nanowire-based lithium-ion battery anodes extending over 1000 cycles through in situ formation of a continuous porous network
T Kennedy, E Mullane, H Geaney, M Osiak, C O’Dwyer, KM Ryan Nano letters 14 (2), 716-723
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