Mohammed Badrt Effat

Mohammed B. Effat is a staff scientist and engineer specializing in battery systems and electrochemical energy storage. His research and engineering work focus on developing models and tools for the design, analysis, and techno-economic evaluation of batteries and electrochemical technologies. His experience spans from physics-based modeling (electrochemical-thermal-fluids) to process-level and system-level design and simulations that support product development, performance assessment, and inform economically viable engineering solutions. He works closely with experimentalists to bridge theory and practice. His research experience spans multiple fields, including batteries (lithium-ion, lead-acid), electronics cooling, and solar energy applications.

Education

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2019), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
• M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt.
• B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt.

Selected Honors & Awards

• Argonne Commercialization Excellence Award (2024)
• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (2015-2018)

Selected Publications

Batteries and EC Systems [Design, Performance, and Analysis] 

• Ahmed, Shabbir, Kevin W. Knehr, Mohammed B. Effat, Joseph J. Kubal, and Zoushuang Li. ​“Designing automotive battery packs: sensitivity, case studies and insights using BatPaC.” Journal of Power Sources 671 (2026): 239491
• Knehr, Kevin W., Joseph J. Kubal, Abhas Deva, Mohammed B. Effat, and Shabbir Ahmed. ​“From material properties to device metrics: a data-driven guide to battery design.” Energy Advances (2023).
• Lin, Xidong, Jing Yu, Mohammed B. Effat*, Guodong Zhou, Matthew J. Robson, Stephen CT Kwok, Haijun Li, Shiying Zhan, Yongliang Shang, and Francesco Ciucci. ​“Ultrathin and non‐flammable dual‐salt polymer electrolyte for high‐energy‐density lithium‐metal battery.” Advanced Functional Materials 31, no. 17 (2021): 2010261. (*:equal first author)
• Effat, Mohammed B., Ziheng Lu, Alessio Belotti, Jing Yu, Yu-Qi Lyu, and Francesco Ciucci. ​“Towards succinonitrile-based lithium metal batteries with long cycle life: The influence of fluoroethylene carbonate loading and the separator.” Journal of Power Sources 436 (2019): 226802.
• Lu, Ziheng, Jing Yu, Junxiong Wu, Mohammed B. Effat, Stephen CT Kwok, Yuqi Lyu, Matthew MF Yuen, and Francesco Ciucci. ​“Enabling room-temperature solid-state lithium-metal batteries with fluoroethylene carbonate-modified plastic crystal interlayers.” Energy Storage Materials 18 (2019): 311-319.
• Effat, Mohammed B., and Francesco Ciucci. ​“Bayesian and hierarchical bayesian based regularization for deconvolving the distribution of relaxation times from electrochemical impedance spectroscopy data.” Electrochimica Acta 247 (2017): 1117-1129.

Multi-Scale Electrochemical-Thermal Modeling

• Effat, Mohammed B., Joseph J. Kubal, Kevin W. Knehr, and Shabbir Ahmed. ​“Impact of different thermal gradients on the dynamics of cylindrical lithium-ion cells subject to accelerated aging and on module performance.” Applied Thermal Engineering (2025): 126639.
• Effat, Mohammed B., Kevin Knehr, Tim Fister, Crystal Ferels, Nikhil Chaudhari, and Pietro Papa Lopes. ​“Modeling the Nucleation and Growth of Lead Sulfate Particles on Lead Electrodes.” Journal of The Electrochemical Society (2025).
• Shen, Longyun, Yuhao Wang, Jing Yu, Guodong Zhou, Jiapeng Liu, Matthew J. Robson, Yanguang Zhou, Mohammed B. Effat, and Francesco Ciucci. ​“Strain engineering of antiperovskite materials for solid-state Li batteries: a computation-guided substitution approach.” Journal of Materials Chemistry A 11, no. 35 (2023): 18984-18995.
• Effat, Mohammed B., Jiapeng Liu, Ziheng Lu, Ting Hei Wan, Antonino Curcio, and Francesco Ciucci. ​“Stability, elastic properties, and the Li transport mechanism of the protonated and fluorinated antiperovskite lithium conductors.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12, no. 49 (2020): 55011-55022.
• Liu, Jiapeng, Ziheng Lu, Mohammed B. Effat, and Francesco Ciucci. ​“A theoretical study on the stability and ionic conductivity of the Na11M2PS12 (M= Sn, Ge) superionic conductors.” Journal of Power Sources 409 (2019): 94-101.
• Effat, Mohammed B., Emanuele Quattrocchi, Ting Hei Wan, Mattia Saccoccio, Alessio Belotti, and Francesco Ciucci. ​“Electrical conductivity relaxation in the nonlinear regime.” Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164, no. 14 (2017): F1671.

Thermal Management

• Abdel-Hafeez, Alhussein M., Mohammed B. Effat, O. Hassan, and N. Y. Abdel-Shafi. ​“Effect of intercell spacing and operating conditions on the performance of prismatic lithium-ion batteries cooled by dielectric immersion Fluids: A numerical study.” International Journal of Thermal Sciences 211 (2025): 109680.
• Effat, Mohammed B., Chili Wu, and Francesco Ciucci. ​“Modeling efforts in the key areas of thermal management and safety of lithium ion battery cells: a mini review.” Asia‐Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering 11, no. 3 (2016): 399-406.
• Effat, Mohammed B., Mahmoud Salah AbdelKarim, O. Hassan, and M. Abdelgawad. ​“Numerical investigations of the effect of flow arrangement and number of layers on the performance of multi-layer microchannel heat sinks.” In ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, vol. 57502, p. V08BT10A048. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015.

Process Modeling and Techno-Economics

• Kevin W. Knehr, Mohammed B. Effat, Joseph J. Kubal, Licheng Su, Nicholas Neu, Harris Chacko, Kyle Gordon, and Shabbir Ahmed. ​“A technoeconomic analysis of poly- and single-crystalline NMCxyz from material synthesis to battery pack design.” Journal of Power Sources (2026)

• Knehr, Kevin W., Joseph J. Kubal, Mohammed B. Effat, and Shabbir Ahmed. ​“Projecting the price of US-manufactured battery packs and cells for light-duty vehicles.” Energy Advances (2026).