Ozgenur Kahvecioglu
Senior Principal Materials Scientist
Biography
Ozgenur Kahvecioglu is currently a senior material scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, directing several projects for energy storage materials, with expertise in areas pertaining to materials manufacturing R&D, process scale-up, and advanced materials characterization. She has been instrumental in establishing and leading the process R&D and scale up of the Cathode Active Materials program at Argonne’s Materials Engineering Research Facility from its inception. Dr. Kahvecioglu is the lead investigator for one of Argonne’s core battery programs that is funded by the DOE Vehicle Technologies Office, where she works with industry, academia, and other national laboratories on implementing and validating emerging synthesis technologies to reduce battery manufacturing costs while increasing the quality and performance of the materials.
Kahvecioglu is credited with the first introduction of a Taylor Vortex Reactor to the United States for battery materials manufacturing—an advanced instrument to carry out chemical reactions. Using this new technology, she has developed improved production processes for several new cathode materials that allow for manufacturing intensification at lower cost. She holds a BS., an MSc., and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. She has published over 80 publications, and 5 issued US patents in the process research and development field. She has received two R&D100 awards for the large scale thermochemical processing and recycling process for lithium-ion spent batteries.
Education and Training:
- 1999 B.S. (Metallurgical and Materials Eng.) Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2002 M.Sc. (Extractive Metallurgy) Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2010 Ph.D. (Material Science) Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2002-2010 Research Assistant, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2010-2011 Visiting Scholar, Energy Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont IL
- 2011-2012 Senior Research Associate, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2012-2015 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Energy Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont IL
Research and Professional Experience:
- 2015-2018 Materials Engineer, Process R&D Scale-up, Argonne National Laboratory
- 2018-2019 Materials Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
- 2019-2022 Principal Materials Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
- 2022-Present Senior Materials Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
- Received the 2012 R&D100 Award for the development of “Ultra-Fast Boriding Process”
- Received the 2024 R&D100 Award for the development of “Ultra-Fast Selective Delamination Process” for recycling of spent battery materials
- First to implement an emerging technology “Taylor Vortex Reactors” in the US for the cathode precursor manufacturing (2015)
- Research in lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, solid-state batteries
- Serves as the principal investigator on several projects.
- Recognized by DOE’s EERE Energy Storage Grand Challenge in 2021.