Stony Brook University will be home to the new Northeastern Chemical
Energy Storage Center (NOCESC), which involves a team of
experimentalists and theorists at SBU (Clare P. Grey, Director and
Peter Khalifah), Brookhaven National Laboratory (Jason Graetz and
Xiao-Qing Yang), Rutgers, Binghamton University, MIT, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, U. Michigan, Argonne National Laboratory, and U.
Florida.
“This award is a great example of the world-class
energy research that is being conducted at Stony Brook University,”
said Dr. Shirley Kenny, Stony Brook University President. “Clare Grey
is an outstanding scientist; she is to be congratulated for her
successful efforts in collaborating with colleagues from other
institutions in this critical area.”
“I am very excited by the
opportunity to bring together a team of world experts at Stony Brook,
Brookhaven National Laboratory and other leading US institutions to
attack a series of key fundamental research issues that directly impact
our ability to use lithium ion batteries in a wider range of
applications -- particularly in combination with new renewable energy
sources and in the field of transportation,” said Clare Grey, who will
be leading the project. “At Stony Brook, in addition to synthesizing
new materials we propose to develop new diagnostic tools to determine
how batteries function and why they sometimes fail, so as to use this
information to help design the next generation of lithium ion
batteries.”
The design of the next generation of lithium-ion
batteries (LIBs) requires both the development of new chemistries and
the fundamental understanding of the physical and chemical processes
that occur in these complex systems. The specific goals of this new
center are to develop a fundamental understanding of how electrode
reactions in LIBs occur, and how they can be tailored by appropriate
electrode design (doping, particle size, shape, composite structure,
etc.), so as to identify the critical structural and physical
properties that are vital to improving battery performance, and use
this information to design new battery systems. The center will also
develop new diagnostic methodologies of relevance to the entire battery
community. An emphasis will be placed on the development of in situ
methods that use multiple experimental tools simultaneously or that
combine imaging with spectroscopy.
