Aqueous Battery Consortium
The Aqueous Battery Consortium pursues the science and engineering for affordable, grid-scale energy storage that will work dependably for a long time. This energy storage device must be more environmentally safe and have a higher energy density than the kind of water-based electrolyte battery in use today. The new aqueous battery should also cost one-tenth as much as today's lithium-ion battery.
The Aqueous Battery Consortium's research is organized into six major aims and three crosscutting themes common to the aims. The total of nine research teams collaborate closely.
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In the first dual-electrode-free battery, metals self-assemble in liquid crystal formation as electrodes when needed. This could increase energy density over existing zinc-manganese batteries up to six times and durability almost four times.
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UC Santa Barbara materials faculty members Raphaële Clément and Ram Seshadri will work with colleagues across North America in the Aqueous Battery Consortium.
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Headquartered at Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the newly launched Aqueous Battery Consortium brings together 31 top energy storage technology experts from 15 research institutions.
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