Dr. Stefano Tagliaferri
Topics of research
– Solid state batteries
– Sodium-sulfur batteries
– Cathodes for sodium-ion batteries
Educational background
Doctoral degree
Imperial College London (UK) – 2019-2023
Department of Materials
Thesis topic: 3D Printing of Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices
Supervisor: Prof Cecilia Mattevi
Master’s Degree
University of Naples Federico II (IT) – 2017-2019
Program: M. S. in Materials Engineering
Thesis topic: 3D printing of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide-based electrodes for microsupercapacitors
Bachelor’s degree
University of Naples Federico II (IT) – 2014-2017
Program: B. S. in Materials Science and Engineering
Thesis topic: 2D Materials: from graphene to Van der Waals heterostructures
Awards & Accomplishments
– Recipient of the Travel Grant for Research Students awarded by the Armourers & Brasiers Gauntlet Trust (2022)
– Awarded the 1stt Prize for Best Poster Design at the Postgraduate Research Day, Imperial College London (2021)
– Awarded a European Research Council (ERC) scholarship for the PhD project in Materials research (Oct. 2019 – Oct. 2023)
– Awarded the “Buon Compleanno Federico II” prize for excellence in postgraduate studies (2019)
Conferences & Visits
– Oral presentation at the 2022 MRS Fall Meeting (Boston, MA) – 2D Layered Materials & Heterostructures Symposium: “3D Printing of Hydrothermal Vanadium Disulfide Electrodes for Zinc-Ion Batteries”, S. Tagliaferri, M. Sokolikova, N. Goli, M. Och, H. Bai, C. Mattevi
– Poster presentation at the 2022 MRS Fall Meeting (Boston, MA) – Beyond Li-Ion Batteries Symposium: “Fully 3D Printed Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries for Wearable Electronic Devices”, S. Tagliaferri, N. Goli, M. Och, M. Sokolikova, C. Mattevi
– Oral presentation at the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting (Honolulu, HI) – Emerging Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices Symposium: “3D Printing of Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries with High Cycling Stability”, S. Tagliaferri, N. Goli, M. Och, M. Sokolikova, A. Panagiotopoulos C. Mattevi
– Oral presentation at the 240th ECS Meeting – Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, and Photoelectrochemistry Symposium: “Pristine Graphene Inks for 3D Printed Supercapacitors with High Capacitance”, S. Tagliaferri, N. Goli, A. Panagiotopoulos, M. Och, G. Cheng, C. Mattevi
– Oral presentation at the E-MRS 2021 Spring meeting – 2D materials for energy applications Symposium: “3D printing of pristine graphene inks for energy storage devices”, S. Tagliaferri, N. Goli, A. Panagiotopoulos, M. Och, G. Cheng, C. Mattevi
– Poster presentation at the Postgraduate Research Day, Imperial College London: “3D printing of pristine graphene inks for energy storage devices”, S. Tagliaferri, N. Goli, A. Panagiotopoulos, C. Mattevi.
– Oral presentation at the 2020 MRS Fall Meeting – Advanced Materials for Additive Manufacturing Symposium: “Ink Design Strategies for the Direct Ink Writing of Energy Devices”, S. Tagliaferri, N. Goli, C. Mattevi
Publications
2023
– Panagiotopoulos, A.; Nagaraju, G.; Tagliaferri, S.; Grotta, C.; Sherrell, P.C.; Sokolikova, M.; Cheng, G.; Iacoviello, F.; Sharda, K.; Mattevi, C., 3D printed inks of two-dimensional semimetallic MoS2/TiS2 nanosheets for conductive-additive-free symmetric supercapacitors, J. Mater. Chem. A 2023, 11 (30), 16190-16200
2022
– Nagaraju, G.; Tagliaferri, S.; Panagiotopoulos, A.; Och, M.; Quintin-Baxendale, R.; Mattevi, C. Durable Zn-Ion Hybrid Capacitors Using 3D Printed Carbon Composites, J. Mater. Chem. A 2022, 10 (29)
2021
– Tagliaferri, S.; Nagaraju, G.; Panagiotopoulos, A.; Och, M.; Cheng, G.; Iacoviello, F.; Mattevi, C. Aqueous Inks of Pristine Graphene for 3D Printed Microsupercapacitors with High Capacitance, ACS Nano 2021, 15 (9), 15342–15353
– Tagliaferri S.; Panagiotopoulos A.; Mattevi C., Direct ink writing of energy materials, Mater. Adv., 2021, 2, 540-563
2020
– Daneshvar F.; Tagliaferri S.; Chen H.; Zhang T.; Liu C.; Sue H.-J., Ultralong Electrospun Copper–Carbon Nanotube Composite Fibers for Transparent Conductive Electrodes with High Operational Stability, ACS Appl. Electron. Mater., 2020, 2, 2692 —2698