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Next-Generation Batteries: A New Report
Venkat Srinivasan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Yi Cui, Stanford University; Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo; and Michael F. Toney, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory talk to media prior to their symposium entitled Next-Generation Batteries for Mobile Devices and the Grid at AAAS 2015 Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. Read More
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Energy Storage: Building a Better Battery via Public-Private Partnership
Clean Energy Innovation: Building a better battery via public-private partnership – A team of government, university, and industry partners is seeking to create a next-generation battery that will help electric cars drive farther, provide renewable energy storage and help improve the electricity grid. Read More
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The energy manhattan project that will change everything | Jeff Chamberlain | TEDxNaperville
Jeff Chamberlain gave a TEDx talk focused on the importance of energy storage and the role JCESR is taking in the quest for better batteries. Read More
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Future of Clean Energy in the Midwest
David Danielson, Assistant Secretary for the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for the Department of Energy; Amy Francetic, CEO of the Clean Energy Trust; and Mark Peters, the Associate Laboratory Director for the Energy and Global Security Directorate at Argonne National Laboratory discuss the future of Clean Energy in the Midwest. Read More
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JCESR: Moving Beyond Lithium-Ion
This video entitled, “JCESR: Moving Beyond Lithium-Ion,” gives an overview of JCESR’s goals and its vision to transform transportation and the electricity grid with high-performance, low cost energy storage Read More
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The Battery Storage Hub is Making the Battery of the Future
Deputy Director Jeff Chamberlain (JCESR) details how JCESR research is aimed at developing batteries that will make electric vehicles cost competitive with the internal combustion engine. Read More
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A Look Inside SLAC's Battery Lab
Stanford materials science and engineering graduate student Zhi Wei Seh shows how he prepares battery materials in SLAC’s energy storage laboratory. Read More
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Beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries
JCESR Director George Crabtree and Deputy Director Jeff Chamberlain discuss how JCESR will go beyond lithium ion batteries in this audio podcast. Read More
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David Willets Visits JCESR
UK Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts, visited Argonne National Laboratory and the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR). Read More
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Clean Energy 2030: Building a Sustainable Future
JCESR Director George Crabtree discusses the future of clean energy in “Clean Energy 2030: Building a Sustainable Future,” a UChicago – Argonne – Fermilab Joint Speaker Series Event held at Argonne. Read More
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Architecture-Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization for Dynamic Covalent Poly(disulfide)s
We reported a strategy to access different topologies of redox-active poly(disulfide)s by ring-opening polymerization. Control over polymerization enables synthesis of high molecular-weight polymers. The polymers undergo catalytic depolymerization to recycle monomer; a promising feature for sustainable flow batteries. Read More
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Adsorption and Thermal Decomposition of Electrolytes on Nanometer Magnesium Oxide: An in Situ 13C MAS NMR Study
The structural and chemical evolution of electrolyte constituents at the nanometric MgO surface were identified, providing a fundamental understanding of heterogeneous interphase evolution. Read More
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Mechanism-Based Design of a High-Potential Catholyte Enables a 3.2 V All-Organic Nonaqueous Redox Flow Battery
Development of an extremely high-potential catholyte leads to the first 3.2 V all-organic flow battery. Read More
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Shedding X‑ray Light on the Interfacial Electrochemistry of Silicon Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries
Our results shed light on the interfacial electrochemistry of silicon anodes for Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs), providing important mechanistic insight into nanometer scale phenomena and how these influence battery performance. Read More
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Accelerating Electrolyte Discovery for Energy Storage through Machine Learning
Utilized high performance computing to generate a database of highly accurate quantum chemical energies of 133 K organic molecules and used machine learning to enable prediction of energies from low fidelity, low cost quantum chemical calculations. Read More
