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George Crabtree wins 2022 Energy Systems Award
The prestigious award recognizes the importance of transforming energy systems from fossil fuels to carbon-free technologies. Physicist George Crabtree of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has received the 2022 Energy Systems Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( … Read More
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Fund launched in honor of JCESR collaborator Susan Odom
The University of Kentucky (UK) College of Arts & Sciences has launched a fund to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Susan Odom, a dear friend and JCESR collaborator. Dr. Susan A. Odom (1980-2021) was a talented associate professor of chemistry in … Read More
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JCESR-supported research makes cover of Science: New electrolyte bolsters rechargeable battery design
This press release was authored by the A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland. The energy contained within lithium-ion batteries has the potential to reshape the technology of the future battlefield, creating a worldwide demand for key lithium-ion battery materials … Read More
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JCESR researchers testify before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee
JCESR researchers Kristin Persson and Fik Brushett testified May 4 before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, Subcommittee on Energy, to share how the climate and energy science research sponsored by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science … Read More
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Active learning accelerates redox-flow battery discovery
This article was authored by Jared Sagoff and first published by Argonne National Laboratory. By using active learning, scientists are more quickly finding suitable candidates for redox-flow batteries. When it comes time to design a new battery chemistry, scientists only can … Read More
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JCESR lays foundation for safer, longer-lasting batteries
This article was authored by Anna Marie Tomczyk and first published by Argonne National Laboratory. Electricity storage in batteries is in ever increasing demand for smartphones, laptops, cars and the power grid. Solid-state batteries are among the most promising … Read More
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Studies with single-crystal electrodes can speed up design of new battery systems
This article was authored by Joseph E. Harmon and first published by Argonne National Laboratory. The diamonds and other crystals on view in science museum exhibits are a delight to the eye. What contributes to their sometimes dazzling geometric … Read More
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2019 JCESR Impactful Publication Award Winners
The inaugural JCESR Publishing Awards for CY2019 were presented to postdocs and graduate students in recognition of their research publication efforts on April 9, 2020, at the first-ever virtual JCESR Full Program Meeting. The awards were initiated in September 2019 to celebrate “ideal” papers and … Read More
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A Message from JCESR Director George Crabtree
Despite the coronavirus challenges, JCESR continues to push the frontier of energy storage science as we telecommute from home, like much of the nation. We are turning our attention to computation, data analysis and paper writing which continues at a normal or higher pace, enabled … Read More
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You’re invited: Idaho National Laboratory and JCESR webinar on energy storage (March 18 )
Electrification is changing the energy landscape of the Mountain West region. While energy storage remains a key enabler to this transformation, infrastructure upgrade and supply chain development will be a key driver for this new economy. Join us on March 18 for a webinar where we’ll … Read More
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Efficient Intermolecular Charge Transport in π-Stacked Pyridinium Dimers Using Cucurbit[8]uril Supramolecular Complexes
In this work, we observe highly efficient intermolecular charge transport between stacked pyridinium dimers inside a synthetic host (cucurbit[8]uril, CB[8]) using single molecule techniques. Read More
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George Crabtree wins 2022 Energy Systems Award
The prestigious award recognizes the importance of transforming energy systems from fossil fuels to carbon-free technologies. Physicist George Crabtree of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has received the 2022 Energy Systems Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( … Read More
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Exploring the Synthesis of Alkali Metal Anti-perovskites
This work combines Density functional theory, quasi-harmonic approximation and experiments to explore the synthesizability of several marginally stable antiperovskites (APs) and overall, has obtained good agreement between experiments and computation. Read More
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Untapped Potential: The Need and Opportunity for High-Voltage Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries
Prior studies of the techno-economic design space for aqueous redox flow batteries (AqRFBs) have almost exclusively focused on cell potentials ≤1.5 V, due, at least in part, to the belief that battery operation at higher cell potentials in not feasible due to electrolyte decomposition. However, … Read More
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Intercalation of Ca into a Highly Defective Manganese Oxide at Room Temperature
Nanocrystals of layered MnOx containing a high concentration of atomic defects and lattice water are shown to have remarkable electrochemical activity towards Ca2+ , amounting to a capacity of ~130 mAh/g at room temperature. Multimodal characterization revealed the notable degree of intercalation by probing the … Read More
