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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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JCESR Scientific Sprints - Speed through Collaboration
JCESR supplements its traditional project management approach with scientific “Sprints.” Sprints take a single question from JCESR’s catalog of prioritized scientific challenges and dedicate a small, multidisciplinary team of 5-15 members to answer it, enabling us to move forward more rapidly in our research. Sprints empower early-career scientists to show their leadership qualities in the Sprints they lead. Once a Sprint is completed, the outcome is documented within JCESR and shared with the research community. The resulting new knowledge then informs and inspires subsequent research challenges. Read More
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JCESR Scientific Sprints - Better Polymers for Better Batteries
JCESR supplements its traditional project management approach with scientific “Sprints.” The sprint described in this video involved a multidisciplinary team from Argonne, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Michigan. As they studied how polymers in solution can … Read More
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Why We Need A Revolution In Energy Storage
George Crabtree and JCESR scientists talk with Craig Benzine, host of PBS-sponsored YouTube show, “The Good Stuff” on why we need a better grid, the importance of energy storage on the grid and how all these things would confuse the ghost of Thomas Edison. Read More
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SC15 High Performance Computing (HPC) Transforms Batteries
A new breakthrough battery—one that has significantly higher energy, lasts longer, and is cheaper and safer—will likely be impossible without a new material discovery. Kristin Persson and other JCESR scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are taking some of the guesswork out of the discovery process with the Electrolyte Genome Project. Read More
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Tesla Tackling Problem of Power Storage: Chamberlain
Jeff Chamberlain and Bloomberg’s David Gura speak on Bloomberg West discussing the potential global impact of Tesla’s announcement of a battery for use in homes and business, the challenge to store renewable energy and the market for a $3,000 battery to power your home. Read More
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Beyond the Light Switch
On this edition of Beyond the Light Switch, aired on PBS in April 2015, the program focuses on the electrification of the American economy – in transportation, shipping, airlines, even in the U.S. military and its importance to our national security. Scientific American’s David Biello came to Argonne (34 min. into program) to discuss the research required to meet the nation’s energy storage goals. Read More
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Next Generation Battery Technology
Jeff Chamberlain spoke with Steve LeVine about the development of next generation lithium-ion battery technology, covered live on C-SPAN at the Atlantic Council in Washington D.C. Read More
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Addressing Climate Change with Next Generation Energy Storage Technology
In March 2015, George Crabtree gave the keynote address, “Addressing Climate Change with Next Generation Energy Storage Technology” at the Institute of Environmental Sustainability Climate Change Conference at Loyola University. Read More
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Tesla's Software Update Aims to End `Range Anxiety’
George Crabtree spoke with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg West about the battery technology electric cars have in place now, how it can be improved and improvements Tesla will be focusing on. 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
