Patrick Aggrey

PhD Thesis: “Nanometallurgy studies of transformations in the silica-silicon system ”

Supervisor: Professor Alexander Korsunsky

IDC committee members:  Professor Artem Abakumov,  Professor Alexander Korsunsky   and  Professor Keith Stevenson

Patrick graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with a major in Materials Engineering. He later received his Masters degree in Advanced Materials Science from the National University of Science and Technology, NUST MISiS. In 2018, Patrick was admitted to the Skoltech PhD in Materials Science and Engineering. Patrick’s research work aims at understanding the effects of transformations within the silicon oxygen system on the structure and properties of nanostructured silicon and silica based energy materials and designing cost effective and environmentally friendly synthesis routes to produce them. Some of his results have been published recently. At present his main focus of research is centered on silica and silicon based anode materials obtained from naturally occurring diatomaceous earth for improved performance in batteries.

List of Publication
Aggrey P., Abdusatorov B., Kan Y., Salimon A., Korsunsky A et al, In situ Formation of Nanoporous Silicon on Silicon Wafer via the Magnesiothermic Reduction Reaction (MRR) of Diatomaceous Earth (DE),Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 601
Aggrey, P., Salimon, A. I., Abdusatorov, B., Fedotov, S. S., & Korsunsky, A. M. (2020). The structure and phase composition of nano-silicon as a function of calcination conditions of diatomaceous earth. Materials Today: Proceedings.​
Salimon, A. I., Sapozhnikov, P. V., Everaerts, J., Kalinina, O. Y., Besnard, C., Papadaki, C., … & Aggrey P., Kalyaev, V. (2020). A Mini-Atlas of diatom frustule electron microscopy images at different magnifications. Materials Today: Proceedings.​
Alexander M. Korsunsky, Ekaterina D. Bedoshvili, Julijana Cvjetinovic, Aggrey, P., Kalin Dragnevski, Elena V. Likhoshway, Alexey I. Salimon, Dmitry A. Gorin. Siliceous diatom frustules as the platforms for smart nanofabrication – Forecast and Justification. Materials Today: Proceedings.​
List of Conferences

IV International Conference of Young Scientists 2019 (Topical Problems of Modern Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Materials Science) : “ Effects of pre-treatment of silica on the structure and phase composition of nanostructured silicon”
VII-th Vereshachagin Baikal Conference (Irkutsk, Russia): “Diatomite inspired nanostructured quartz as a piezoelectric material”