Gaël Minart obtained his engineering degree in materials science from the Polytech School of the University of Nantes in 2021. During his final year, he specialised in the field of batteries with a research and development project on the study of intermetallic anodes for hybrid Li-ion supercapacitors at the IMN. He then completed a 6-month internship at SAFT in Bordeaux, where he worked on the development of a mathematical model for the dispersion of carbon black in electrode slurries. After obtaining his diploma, he started a PhD on the synthesis of polyanionic compounds for positive Na-ion electrodes at the ICMCB under the supervision of Jacob Olchowka and Laurence Croguennec. His thesis is mainly focused on the control of the morphology and the synthesis of NVPF-type materials by topochemical reaction in ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvent media. During his PhD, Gaël acquired expertise in various characterisation techniques such as X-ray diffraction, SEM, FTIR, ICP, XPS and electrochemistry.

Gaël joined CIC energiGUNE in Janury 2025 as a researcher in the Inorganic Battery Materials Research Group, working on the synthesis of positive electrode and solid electrolyte materials for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries.

• Na-ion batteries
• Positive electrodes
• Electrochemistry

• Material synthesis
• Ionic liquids
• X-ray diffraction