Here are some of the projects we are working on and thinking about:
- Lithium metal electrode stability and performance.
- Coupling of mechanics with electrochemistry.
- Solid state battery safety, including (1) experimental work on the thermochemistry of the reactions that take place among Li battery components upon heating, and (2) modeling work to project how large-format Li metal batteries will behave upon heating and short circuiting.
- Performance and degradation of Li metal cells with conversion cathode materials (including primary cells).
- Electrochemical technologies for deep decarbonization.
- Mathematical modeling of coupled, non-linear electrochemical processes.
We greatly appreciate current funding support from agencies including DOE Basic Energy Sciences, DOE ARPA-E, the BIRD Foundation through the US-Israel Energy Center, CREB, and the IARPA RESILIENCE program.
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- Comparison of Li-ion and Li-metal cell repeat layers
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- Key metrics for evaluating lithium metal electrode performance
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- Schematic of a Hydrogen/Bromine flow battery and its role in grid energy storage
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- Computational fluid dynamics simulations of a flow battery, and experiments showing degradation locations
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- Modeling and experimental results for discharge of a Li/Oxygen battery
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- A Li-ion battery cathode composed of multiple active materials
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- Increasing storage duration is needed as more intermittent renewables are added to a grid