Juliane Irine Preimesberger joined NREL in August 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher in the Chemistry and Nanoscience Center. Her current research is on the mechanics of lithium-ion batteries, where she is involved in two multi-laboratory consortia that focus on improving silicon anode batteries and recycling lithium battery materials. Before starting at NREL, she completed her doctorate at Princeton University in Professor Craig Arnold’s group. There, she studied the connection between mechanics and electrochemistry in lithium-ion electrode materials, deriving performance metrics for mechano-electrochemical energy harvesters and using techniques like neutron diffraction to provide insight into the mechanism behind the mechano-electrochemical effect.

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Research Interests

Electrochemical energy storage 

Mechanical characterization of materials 

Materials science 

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Princeton University 

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology 

Featured Work

Figures of Merit for Piezoelectrochemical Energy-Harvesting Systems, Joule (2020)

Investigating Mechano-Electrochemical Coupling Phenomenon in Lithium-Ion Pouch Cells Using In-situ Neutron Diffraction, ECS Transactions (2021)

The Effect of Mechanical Frequency on Piezoelectrochemical Energy Harvesters, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (2021)

Awards and Honors

Gordon Y.S. Wu Fellowship in Engineering, Princeton University (2017–2022) 

Exchange Program Grant Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2016) 

Rose Hills Foundation Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2015)

Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2014)