Mitch Ball Email & Phone Number

Alameda, California, United States

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Developed the Atlung Method for Intercalant Diffusion and Resistance (AMIDR), a novel, “complete” pulse method for measuring active material ion diffusivity and resistance with a greater degree of confidence using.
• Implemented AMIDR as a publicly available python program on GitHub complete with a user interface for data processing and error detection to allow easy adoption within the scientific community
• Designed a mechanically robust 3-electrode coin cell for AMIDR using epoxy and Au/Sn insulated microwires as reference electrodes and trained lab mates on the build procedure
• Presented comparative analysis of commercial and experimental active materials from Tesla, other vendors, and my lab mates during biweekly calls with Tesla cell materials team

San Francisco Bay Area

• Optimized slurry and coating integration of silicon-based active material improving volumetric energy density, power density, and cycle life for high volume cell manufacturing
• Reduced coating thickness variance of in-lab single layer pouch cells by 30% by introducing process changes informed by studying coating topography with contact angle goniometry and confocal laser scanning microscopy
• Modeled and predicted end-of-life cell gassing behavior for a variety of electrolyte compositions by analyzing coulombic efficiency of a large, historical dataset of cell tests semi-remotely during the covid-19 pandemic

San Francisco Bay Area

• Optimized slurry and coating integration of silicon-based active material improving volumetric energy density, power density, and cycle life for high volume cell manufacturing
• Improved battery cycle life by 20% with no negative tradeoffs by generating new company-standard binder recipe
• Developed a novel method for high precision measurement of active material agglomeration using spin-coating and confocal laser scanning microscopy proving correlation between agglomeration and coating mass density

Kitchener, Canada Area

• Designed and analyzed various polymer film formulations for material properties such as visual clarity, impact and scratch resistance, and chemical degradation when applied to windshield glass
• Reduced standard deviation of film abrasion test results by 75% and test duration by 60%
• Developed new iteration of commercial product with 40% more scratch resistance
• Diagnosed and modeled source of undesirable film diffraction pattern

Waterloo, Ontario

• Developed and characterized inexpensive, nanoporous, crystalline nano cellulose/chitosan biogel for adsorption of toxic anions in water treatment
• Beat previous best, chemically analogous gel found in literature by 20% in per mass adsorption by using freeze drying method to expand gel pore network

Masters Of Applied Science (Masc), Chemistry, Gpa: 4.3/4.3

Jeff Dahn Research Group

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc), Nanotechnology Engineering