Crosscut 3: Operando characterization techniques

Develop a holistic understanding of aqueous battery processes through operando characterization that spans relevant time and length scales.

Ultimately, the Aqueous Battery Consortium’s research must be combined into a device or several devices to see if the parts can deliver the whole desired outcome. Up to and including that, the operando characterization crosscut will integrate the six aims to establish a holistic understanding of aqueous battery processes from molecules to entire devices and from long duration storage to many charge/discharge cycles. The project's aqueous battery chemistries represent a unique characterization challenge to measure results in working batteries in the tiniest imaginable spaces and shortest imaginable times. Despite a decade of intense rechargeable aqueous battery research in the past decade or two, this has not been tackled in a coordinated effort.

The Crosscut 3 team will design, build, and utilize operando characterization tools critical for achieving ABC’s goal of establishing new, fundamental design rules for creating affordable, grid-scale electricity storage.

Lead

  • William Chueh

    Lead, Crosscut Theme 3 - Operando characterization techniques; Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, and Energy Science & Engineering, Stanford

Current Co-Principal Investigators

  • Veronica Augustyn

    Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, NC State University

  • Raphaële Clement

    Assistant Professor, Materials, University of California–Santa Barbara

  • Yi Cui

    Director and Principal Investigator, Aqueous Battery Consortium; Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Energy Science & Engineering, and Photon Science, Stanford University

  • Bruce Dunn

    Lead, Aim 3 - Cathodes; Distinguished Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, and Bioengineering, UCLA

  • Yuzhang Li

    Lead, Aim 4 - Interface; Assistant Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, UCLA

  • Yijin Liu

    Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas–Austin

  • Johanna Nelson Weker

    Assistant Director, Aqueous Battery Consortium; Lead Scientist, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC

  • Ram Seshadri

    Distinguished Professor, Materials, and Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California–Santa Barbara

  • Sarah Tolbert

    Lead, Crosscut Theme 1 - Materials design and synthesis; Distinguished Professor, Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Materials Science & Engineering, UCLA

  • Xueli (Sherry) Zheng

    Associate Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory