Daniele Vivona

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering

Center for Clean Energy Engineering

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2025)
• M.Sc., Polytechnic Institute of Milan (2019)

Research Focus

Understanding atom-level energy conversion processes to construct design solutions for ion transport and interfacial phenomena in energy materials, with the goal of advancing next-generation energy conversion devices, with a focus on electrochemical cells.

Awards and Honors

• MIT Energy Initiative Fellowship, MIT Energy Initiative and ExxonMobil 2021 – 2023
• MathWorks Mechanical Engineering Fellowship, MathWorks 2022

Publications

• B. A. Tappan, K. Geng†, D. Vivona†, D. Wang, D. Mankus, A. Lytton-Jean, D. Bresser Y. Shao-Horn
  (2025). Investigation of Charge Transfer Kinetics in Multilayer PEO/LLZO Solid-State Batteries. ACS
  Appl. Mater. Interfaces,17, 12, 18255-18267.
• J. Kim†, K. Gordiz†, D. Vivona, L. Hu, C. Gilgenbach, B. A. Tappan, S. Muy, J. Lebeu, Y. Shao-Horn
  (2024). Revealing the Interplay of Local Environments and Ionic Transport in Perovskite Solid Electrolytes.
  ACS Nano, 18, 45, 31234–31243
• S. Wang, S. Gong, T. B¨oger, J. Newnham, D. Vivona, M. Sokseiha, K. Gordiz, A. Aggarwal, T. Zhu, W.
  G. Zeier, J. C. Grossman, Y. Shao-Horn (2024). Multimodal Machine Learning for Materials Science:
  Discovery of Novel Li-ion Solid Electrolytes. Chem. Mater.
• D. Vivona, K. Gordiz, R. Meyer, S. Raman, Y. Shao-Horn (2024). Mechanistic insights into the origin of
  oxygen migration barrier. J. Mater. Chem. A, 12, 34, 22737-22755.
• J. H. Stenlid, P. ˇZguns, D. Vivona, A. Aggarwal, K. Gordiz, Y. Zhang, S. Pathak, M. Z. Bazant, Y.
  Shao-Horn, A. Baskin, J. W. Lawson (2024). Computational Insights into Electrolyte-Dependent Li-Ion
  Charge-Transfer Kinetics at the LixCoO2 Interface. ACS Energy Lett., 9, 7, 3608–3617
• A. Aggarwal, K. Gordiz, A. Baskin, D. Vivona, J. H. Stenlid, J. W. Lawson, J. C. Grossman, Y.
  Shao-Horn (2024). Revealing the Molecular Origin of Driving Forces and Thermodynamic Barriers for Li+
  Ion Transport to Electrode–Electrolyte Interfaces. J. Phys. Chem. C, 128, 31, 12903-12915
• K. H. Pham, K. Gordiz, J. M. Michelsen, H. Liu, D. Vivona, Y. Shao-Horn, A. Henry, K. A. See, S. K.
  Cushing (2023). Correlated Terahertz phonon-ion interactions dominate ion conduction in solid electrolyte
  Li0.5La0.5TiO3. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01632 – In revision at Energy and Environmental Science
• L. Giordano, K. Akkiraju, R. Jacobs, D. Vivona, D. Morgan Y. Shao-Horn (2022). Electronic
  structure-based descriptors for oxide properties and functions. Acc. Chem. Res., 55, 3, 298-308
• S. Chandra, Y. Kim, D. Vivona, I. Waluyo, A. Hunt, C. Schlueter, J. B. Lee, Y. Shao-Horn, B. Yildiz
  (2022). Thermally-driven reactivity of Li0.35La0.55TiO3 solid electrolyte with LiCoO2 cathode. J. Mater.
  Chem. A, 10, 7, 3485–3494
• D. Vivona, M. Messaggi, A. Baricci, A. Casalegno, M. Zago, (2020). Unravelling the contribution of
  kinetics and mass transport phenomena to impedance spectra in Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries:
  development and validation of a 1D physics-based analytical model. J. Electrochem. Soc., 167, 11, 110534
• D. Vivona, A. Casalegno, A. Baricci (2019). Validation of a pseudo-2D analytical model for
  High-Temperature PEM fuel cell impedance valid at typical operative conditions. Electrochimica Acta, 310,
  122-135

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