Patel Group

Peter Bennington

  • Graduate Student (co-advised with Professor Paul Nealey)

Peter Bennington was born in Southern California and grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2016. He did undergraduate research focusing on materials for energy conversion. In the fall of 2017, he joined the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and currently works under the supervision of Professor Patel and Professor Nealey as a graduate student.

Peter’s current research focuses on solid polymer electrolytes for energy storage applications.  His work involves understanding the self-assembly behavior and electrochemical performance of ion conducting polymers.

Critical Percolation Threshold for Solvation-Site Connectivity in Polymer Electrolyte Mixtures

Daniel Sharon, Chuting Deng, Peter Bennington, Michael A Webb, Shrayesh N Patel, Juan J De Pablo, Paul F Nealey. Macromolecules 2022, 55, 16, 7212–7221

Ion Specific, Thin Film Confinement Effects on Conductivity in Polymerized Ionic Liquids

Qiujie Zhao, Peter Bennington, Paul F. Nealey, Shrayesh N. Patel, and Christopher M. Evans. Macromolecules, 2021.

Ionic Dopant‐Induced Ordering Enhances the Thermoelectric Properties of a Polythiophene‐Based Block Copolymer

Ban Xuan Dong, Ziwei Liu, Jonathan W. Onorato, Tengzhou Ma, Joseph Strzalka, Peter Bennington, Christine K. Luscombe, Christopher K. Ober, Paul F. Nealey, Shrayesh N. Patel. 2021,2106991

Role of Molecular Architecture on Ion Transport in Ethylene oxide-Based Polymer Electrolytes

Chuting Deng, Michael A Webb, Peter Bennington, Daniel Sharon, Paul F Nealey, Shrayesh N Patel, Juan J de Pablo

Role of Molecular Architecture on Ion Transport in Ethylene oxide-Based Polymer Electrolytes

Deng, Chuting, et al. "Role of Molecular Architecture on Ion Transport in Ethylene oxide-Based Polymer Electrolytes." Macromolecules 54.5 (2021): 2266-2276. Chuting Deng, Michael A. Webb, Peter Bennington, Daniel Sharon, Paul F. Nealey, Shrayesh N. Patel, Juan J. de Pablo

Molecular Level Differences in Ionic Solvation and Transport Behavior in Ethylene Oxide-Based Homopolymer and Block Copolymer Electrolytes

Daniel Sharon, Peter Bennington, Michael A Webb, Chuting Deng, Juan J De Pablo, Shrayesh N Patel, Paul F Nealey. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 8, 3180–3190

Role of solvation site segmental dynamics on ion transport in ethylene-oxide based side-chain polymer electrolytes

Bennington, Peter, et al. "Role of solvation site segmental dynamics on ion transport in ethylene-oxide based side-chain polymer electrolytes." Journal of Materials Chemistry A 9.15 (2021): 9937-9951. Peter Bennington, Chuting Deng, Daniel Sharon, Michael A. Webb, Juan J. de Pablo, Paul F. Nealey, Shrayesh N. Patel

Stabilizing Dendritic Electrodeposition by Limiting Spatial Dimensions in Nanostructured Electrolytes

Daniel Sharon, Peter Bennington, Shrayesh N Patel, Paul F Nealey. Stabilizing Dendritic Electrodeposition by Limiting Spatial Dimensions in Nanostructured Electrolytes. ACS Energy Letters. 2020, 5, 9, 2889–2896

Intrinsic Ion Transport Properties of Block Copolymer Electrolytes

Daniel Sharon, Peter Bennington, Moshe Dolejsi, Michael A Webb, Ban Xuan Dong, Juan J de Pablo, Paul F Nealey, Shrayesh N Patel. Intrinsic Ion Transport Properties of Block Copolymer Electrolytes. ACS Nano. 2020, 14, 7, 8902–8914

Surface Reconstruction Limited Conductivity in Block‐Copolymer Li Battery Electrolytes

Sutton, P., Bennington, P., Patel, S., Stefik, M., Wiesner, U., Nealey, P., Steiner, U., & Gunkel, I. (2019). Surface Reconstruction Limited Conductivity in Block‐Copolymer Li Battery Electrolytes. Advanced Functional Materials, 29(48), https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201905977

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