Rate My Professor Richard Wills

Professor Wills specializes in electrochemical energy storage and its applications, encompassing supercapacitors, batteries, and fuel cells at component and device levels. His research emphasizes aqueous electrolyte systems, including soluble lead flow batteries, aqueous aluminium-ion batteries, zinc-cerium redox flow batteries, and hybrid energy storage systems for renewable integration and electric vehicle charging stations. He has produced over 84 publications, among them the highly cited 'A lead acid battery based on an electrolyte with soluble lead(II)' (2004), 'Sizing a battery-supercapacitor energy storage system with hybrid dynamical model' (2020), 'Kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction in soluble lead flow batteries' (2024), and 'Planning a hybrid battery energy storage system for supplying electric vehicle charging station microgrids' (2024). In recognition of his contributions to lead-acid battery advancements, he received the Dave Rice Award in 2007. Wills has served as guest editor for special issues on hybrid battery energy storage and contributed to the UK Department for Transport Science Advisory Council, influencing sustainable energy storage development.