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JCESR’s focus has changed to building transformational materials from the bottom up, atom-by-atom and molecule-by-molecule, where each atom or molecule plays a prescribed role in producing the desired overall materials performance. We could not have done this 10 years ago when the advanced scientific tools … Read More
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Team Approach
JCESR is a collaborative team of engineers and scientists with very broad backgrounds. In the battery space we are now facing challenges that required a multidisciplinary approach that no single group can achieve. Made up of 18 partner institutions, JCESR’s diversity and the opportunity for … Read More
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Renewed Focus
JCESR has had a very successful first five years. The personal relationships we’ve formed now enable us to move forward with even more momentum. Recently, the team of more than 150 came together for its first full program meeting since renewal. As stated by the … Read More
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Better Batteries Hold Promise for a Sustainable Future
Better batteries for electric cars and cellphones and better batteries for industrial use that can store excess power generated by wind and solar farms and then supply it to the grid at times of peak demand are greatly needed. The ability to efficiently store … Read More
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Search for the Super Battery
We live in an age when technological innovation seems to be limitlessly soaring. But for all the satisfying speed with which our gadgets have improved, many of them share a frustrating weakness: the batteries. Aired on February 1, 2017, this NOVA program entitled … Read More
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Energy Storage Has the Potential to Change the Way We Live
This CNBC Special Report discusses how the striking and swift evolution of cell phones from cumbersome bricks to sleek, powerful devices was possible because of the lithium-ion batteries used to charge them up. Next-gen batteries could bring the kind of change we’ve seen in telephones to electric vehicles and the grid. Read More
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Energy Storage: George Crabtree
George Crabtree, JCESR Director, discusses the importance of developing the next generation of batteries and how that could help transform transportation and the electricity grid. Read More
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Are Lithium-Ion Batteries Safe?
Lithium-ion batteries are used in all kinds of devices. While there are very few safety issues relative to the millions of batteries in use, in light of some recent lithium-ion safety issues, Kris Van Cleave at CBS Evening News took a look at their safety. Read More
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Sparingly Solvating Electrolytes for High Energy Density Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
As JCESR scientists work to develop lighter and less expensive chemistries than those used in current lithium-ion batteries, lithium-sulfur shows tremendous promise. This perspective presents an alternate approach that could move us closer to long-lived, high energy density lithium-sulfur batteries. Read More
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Inside Tesla's Deal to Buy SolarCity for $2.6 Billion
Tesla Motors Inc. has agreed to purchase SolarCity for $2.6 billion deal that combines Elon Musk’s electric-car maker and clean-energy companies. Argonne National Laboratory’s George Crabtree, Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick and Consumer Edge Research’s James Albertine speak on “Bloomberg West.” … Read More
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Recent Advancements in Rational Design of Non-Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries
Organic redox-active molecules are considered as next-generation materials for non-aqueous redox-flow batteries (NAqORFBs). In this review, we screen the state-of-art advancements made in NAqORFBs, shed light upon the approaches that lie behind the developments, and detail the areas of particular interest through highlighted examples. Read More
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Salt nanoconfinement in zirconium-based metal organic frameworks leads to pore-size and loading-dependent ionic conductivity enhancement
The nanoscale confinement of [NEt4][TFSI] in three isostructural MOFs enhanced the conductivity of composites relative to neat [NEt4][TFSI] by up to a factor of 50. The conductivity increases with the increase in pore size and maximum conductivity was achieved with a salt loading slightly less … Read More
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Prediction of Molecular Structures and Electron Affinities of Metal-Solvent Complexes
Simulated molecular structures and the reductive stabilities of many monovalent and divalent metal ion complexes with organic solvents. Read More
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Intercalation of Mg into a Few-Layer Phyllomanganate in Non-aqueous Electrolytes at Room Temperature
Nanocrystals of a few-layer manganese oxide are shown to have considerable electrochemical activity toward Mg2+ intercalation even at room temperature, where they delivered ~190 mAh/g in full Mg metal batteries. Read More
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Mechanistic Insights in Quinone-Based Zinc Batteries with Nonaqueous Electrolytes
Three quinone-based organic electrodes were tested in nonaqueous Zn-batteries using different salts and solvents. Mechanistic studies on the electrode kinetics were then performed. Read More
