Videos
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#AskBerkeleyLab: Batteries for Electric Cars
Venkat Srinivasan, Department Head-Energy Storage and Distributed Resources at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and JCESR Deputy Director of Integration, explains how battery scientists are addressing the need for EVs with increased range and greater environmental impact. Read More
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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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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
