Andrew Kucharzewski Email & Phone Number

Summary of Expertise• Direct experience in supercapacitor and hybrid systems.• Working knowledge of water based coatings systems and formulations. • Good practical knowledge of dispersion and milling processes.• Has an opportunity to work and network with world experts in coating, drying technologies, dispersion and micro/nano milling from around a world by visit high tech technological centres in America, Japan and Europe.• Involved in production scale-up activities.• Product and process analysis for variability reduction.• Strong experience in improving product and process development.• Validation of alternate materials and processes• Experience in activities from design to prototype, trials, validations, pilot build and then run to volume production.• Proficient in the problem solving process for both product or process.• Develop strong capabilities to perform research and development activities based on tools like DOE (design of experiments), FMEA (product and process failure modes and effects analysis).• Precision thin films (microns) , multistripe coatings• establish process completed by WI, manuals, process instructions, • Responsible for specifications, selection of raw materials, suppliers.• Supercapacitor and energy storage research• Formulation for custom coatings for primers, supercapacitor or battery electrodes.• Prepared and evaluated changes to electrode formulations.

Listed skills include R&D, Process Engineering, Design Of Experiments, Coatings, and 35 others.

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  Senior Research Engineer

  Cap-Xx Pty. Ltd.

  1999 - Present

  Key achievements;• Successful process technology transfer (from CSIRO).• Scale up from lab to pilot production.• Implemented new processes which leads to 100% throughput improvement and improve yields by 35%• Develop several coating processes for supercapacitor and for hybrid electrodes.• Build the network of leading edge coating and processing experts (US, Japan and Europe)• Inventor or co-inventor of two patents• Author of over 200 technical and research reports, presentations Responsible for;• Supercapacitor research and development. • Materials and process engineering, product research and development, validation testing, failure analysis• Development of process documentation, including process FMEA.Expertise;• Subject matter expert (SME) on coating, mixing, dispersion, milling and drying process. Direct experience include electrode/cell production & prototype processing, product design and process development.• Optimising operating window, energy and power densities• Nanoprocessing, thin films, nano materials for leading edge battery, supercapacitor fabrication.