George Crabtree
Director, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
Argonne National Laboratory
University of Chicago
"Beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries" (1.25MB PDF)
The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) develops concepts and technologies for portable electricity storage for transportation and stationary electric storage for the electricity grid. Electrified transportation replaces foreign oil with a host of domestic electricity sources such as gas, nuclear, wind and solar, and utility-scale electric storage enables the grid to bridge the peaks and valleys of variable wind and solar generation and of consumer demand. JCESR looks beyond Li-ion technology to new materials and phenomena to achieve the factor of five increases in performance needed to realize these transformational societal outcomes.
JCESR will leave three legacies: a library of fundamental scientific knowledge of materials and phenomena needed for next-generation batteries, demonstration of battery prototypes suitable for scale up to manufacturing for transportation and the grid, and a new end-to-end integrated operational paradigm for battery research and development spanning discovery research, design, and demonstration.
JCESR is a recently funded Department of Energy researchcenter (battery hub) with a $125 million overall budget.
This lecture is sponsored by the Nieuwland Lecture Series and Department of Physics.