
Prof. Dr. Muhd Zu Azhan Yahya

MZA YAHYA is currently a Professor of Physics (Materials Science) in the Department of Defence Science, Faculty of Defence Science & Technology, National Defence University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. He received his PhD in Advanced Materials from University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2002. He has been appointed as a Fellow of the Malaysian Solid State Association (MASS) since 2010. He has published more than 250 articles in professional journals. He has also successfully supervised 28 PhD and 32 Master graduates. His research interests are related to materials for energy storage (batteries, supercapacitors, solar cells) via experimental and computational
methods.
First Principles Study on Properties of Energy Storage Materials
Energy storage technologies have been intensively studied in particular for batteries applications. Nowadays, advances in lithium-ion battery (LIB) technology are used in most portable electronic devices and electric vehicles. However, there are increasing concerns regarding to the sustainability of lithium sources due to their limited availability and price increase. Therefore, safer and cheaper sodium-based materials are intensively studied for sodium-ion battery (SIB) applications. As with LIB technologies, there are intense activities in developing new electrode materials to increase the capacity and energy density of these emerging devices. In this presentation, the topics to be discussed include: 1) Recent development of LIB and SIB technologies. 2) Computational methods as an alternative method to study the properties of these LIB and SIB cathode materials; 3) The future directions for batteries technologies.
Keywords: Energy Storage, Lithium Ion Battery, Sodium Ion Battery, Computational Methods