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Advanced Energy Storage

2017-2019

Energy storage is critical for a wide variety of major societal challenges, including transitioning to transportation with near-zero emissions and making the electrical grid more compatible with the generation of renewable energy.  Fundamental discovery research in chemistry, materials science, engineering and related disciplines are needed to lead the way toward creation of new types of batteries and capacitors that have greater energy storage density, longer lifetimes, and which are cheaper, safer and easier to discharge and recharge.

Over the past 40 years, Li-ion battery technologies have progressed steadily, ultimately providing the current standard for portable storage with sufficient lifetimes for practical commercial use. Our current technologies are far from ideal, however.  Are we sufficiently exploring all of the chemical and physical systems that can be utilized for electrochemical energy storage? Do new chemistries and materials present unexplored opportunities as electrochemical energy storage components or systems? What breakthroughs or design parameters could be explored for a high-risk, high-reward transformation to better energy storage?

Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage aimed to catalyze theorists, computational scientists and experimentalists across multiple disciplines to address these questions and more, and to collaborate to develop new and innovative projects to accelerate fundamental science driving advances in energy storage.

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Goal: to catalyze theorists, computational scientists, and experimentalists across multiple disciplines, including chemistry, engineering, materials science, and physics, to collaborate on developing new and innovative ideas to accelerate fundamental science driving advances in energy storage.

2019 Team Awards

Data-Driven Discovery of Bifunctional Metal Air Battery Cathodes

  • Shoji Hall
    Materials Science and Engineering
    Johns Hopkins University
  • Iryna Zenyuk
    Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    University of California, Irvine
  • Zachary Ulissi
    Chemical Engineering
    Carnegie Mellon University

Funded by the Sloan Foundation

Recharge, Re-liquify, Re-wet (Re3): Self-Healing Interfaces for Solid-State Batteries

  • Matthew McDowell
    Materials Science and Engineering
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Partha Mukherjee
    Mechanical Engineering
    Purdue University
  • Neil Dasgupta
    Mechanical Engineering
    University of Michigan

Funded by the Sloan Foundation

SurPhase: Elucidating a Self-Coating Mechanism for Improved Cathode Performance

  • Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Zheng Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Institute of Technology
  • Alexander Urban, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University

Funded by the Sloan Foundation

A Porosity-free Sodium Glass Electrolyte Formed at Room Temperature: Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Approach

  • Yan Yao, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
  • Neil Dasgupta, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
  • Alexander Urban, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University

Funded by RCSA

DIRECT: Designer Interfacial Reactivity via Electrostatically-Enhanced Charge Transfer

  • Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Veronica Augustyn, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University
  • Jahan Dawlaty, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California

Funded by RCSA

Solid Electrolytes with Dual Li-and F-ion Conductivity to Overcome the Tyranny of Gravimetric Capacity

  • Yan-Yan Hu, Department of Chemistry, Florida State University
  • Jordi Cabana, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Brent Melot, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California 

Funded by RCSA

2018 Team Awards

Solid Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) “Skin Graft”

  • Candace Chan
    Materials Science
    Arizona State University

    Anne Co
    Chemistry
    Ohio State University

    Hui (Claire) Xiong
    Materials Science
    Boise State University
  • Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Probing the Mechanistics of a Molecularly Tailored Solid/Solid Interface

  • Beth Guiton
    Chemistry
    University of Kentucky
  • Partha Mukherjee
    Mechanical Engineering
    Purdue University
  • Luisa Whittaker-Brooks
    Chemistry
    University of Utah

Funded by Research Corporation

Solid Electrolytes with Entropy-Enhanced Ionic Conductivity and Stability for High-EnergyDensity Lithium Batteries

  • Yan-Yan Hu
    Chemistry
    Florida State University
  • Shyue Ping Ong
    Nanoengineering
    University of California, San Diego
  • Yuan Yang
    Physics
    Columbia University

Funded by Research Corporation

Water in Redox Active Ionic Liquid (WIL) Electrolytes for Energy Storage

  • Kah Chun Lau
    Physics
    California State University, Northridge

    Tianbiao Leo Liu
    Chemistry
    Utah State University

    Yuan Yang
    Physics
    Columbia University

Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation


e-COBRA: eutectic Co-deposition Based Rechargeable Anodes

  • Lauren Marbella
    Chemical Engineering
    Columbia University

    Partha Mukherjee
    Mechanical Engineering
    Purdue University

    Venkat Viswanathan
    Mechanical Engineering
    Carnegie Mellon University

Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Scaling the Sensitivity Gap to Probe Interfaces of High Voltage Cathodes

  • Bryan McCloskey
    Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    University of California, Berkeley

    Louis Piper
    Physics
    Binghamton University

Funded by Research Corporation

2017 Team Awards

Ion REASSIN: Ion Re-coordination at Solid-State Interfaces

  • Veronica Augustyn
    Materials Science and Engineering
    North Carolina State University

    Matthew McDowell
    Materials Science and Engineering
    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Aleksandra Vojvodic
    Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    University of Pennsylvania
  • Funded by Lyda Hill Philanthropies

Defining Interfacial Reactivity in High Capacity Li-ion Cathode Materials

  • Jordi Cabana
    Chemistry
    University of Illinois at Chicago

    Bryan McCloskey
    Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    University of California, Berkeley

    Aleksandra Vojvodic
    Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    University of Pennsylvania
  • Funded by Research Corporation

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Batteries based on Quinone Crystals: Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Approach

  • Jahan Dawlaty
    Chemistry
    University of Southern California

    Puja Goyal
    Chemistry
    Binghamton University

    Yan Yao
    Engineering and Materials Science
    University of Houston
  • Funded by Research Corporation

High-Voltage Dual-Ion Batteries

  • Zhenxing Feng
    Chemical Engineering
    Oregon State University

    Shyue Ping Ong
    Nanoengineering
    University of California, San Diego

    Scott Warren
    Chemistry
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Funded by Research Corporation

Discovery of New Metal Nitrides for Divalent Cation Intercalation Systems

  • Aaron Holder
    Chemistry
    University of Colorado, Boulder

    James Neilson
    Chemistry
    Colorado State University
  • Funded by Research Corporation

ReO3: A Model for Understanding the Participation of Anions in Redox Processes

  • Brent Melot
    Chemistry
    University of Southern California

    Louis Piper
    Physics
    Binghamton University
  • Funded by Research Corporation






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