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Building a Better Battery
Phil Ponce speaks with Director George Crabtree about the Joint Center for Energy Storage’s research and initiative to build a better battery. Read More
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Rational Design of High-Performance Li2S Cathodes
Achieved record performance in Li2S cathodes by using ab initio simulations to guide our rational selection of effective bifunctional binders. Read More
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Creating Better Batteries
Bill Moller speaks with Director George Crabtree about creating energy storage technologies with five times the energy density that would be cheaper than what we have now. Read More
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Powering the Future
Deputy Director of Development and Demonstration Jeff Chamberlain discusses the future of energy storage with CBS News in this video. Read More
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In-Situ TEM and DFT Study of Large Cation Transport and Failure Mechanism In Single SnO2 Nanowire
Direct measurement reveals that Na ion diffusion is 30 times slower than Li ion. Na insertion softens nanowire and causes significant deformation to lead to easy deformation of the product. Pore formation upon Na ion removal leads to poor cycliability of the SnO2 electrode Read More
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A Scientist Answers Your Battery Questions
Venkat Srinivasan, JCESR Deputy Director of Integration, answers several of your questions about the future of battery research. Check it out to learn more about research related to electric vehicles, renewable energy, new materials, and careers in battery science. Read More
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Press Conference on the Batteries and Energy Storage Hub Announcement: November 30, 2012
UChicago President Robert Zimmer was joined by U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on November 30, 2012, to announce that a multi-partner team led by Argonne National Laboratory was selected for an award of up to $120 million over five years to establish a new Batteries and Energy Storage Hub, the Joint Center for Energy Storage (JCESR). Read More
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Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) is a major research partnership that integrates government, academic, and industrial researchers from many disciplines to overcome critical scientific and technical barriers and create new breakthrough energy storage technology. Read More
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Argonne's Materials Engineering Research Facility
Argonne’s Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) enables the development of manufacturing processes for producing advanced battery materials in sufficient quantity for industrial testing. The research conducted in this program is known as process scale-up. Read More
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Scientists Probe Lithium-Sulfur Batteries in Real Time
Lithium-sulfur batteries are a promising technology that could some day power electric vehicles. Scientists at SLAC and Stanford University took microscope snapshots of individual sulfur particles — the first real-time imaging of a lithium-sulfur battery in operation. Read More
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Researchers Create Transparent Lithium-Ion Battery
Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory researchers have invented a transparent lithium-ion battery that is also highly flexible. It is comparable in cost to regular batteries on the market today, with great potential for applications in consumer electronics. Read More
