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Title: Energy storage emerging: A perspective from the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research

Journal Article · · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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  1. Argonne National Laboratory
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  3. University of California, Berkeley
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  5. University of Texas at Austin
  6. University of Utah
  7. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  8. BATTELLE (PACIFIC NW LAB)
  9. University of Waterloo
  10. University of Michigan
  11. U. S. Army Research Laboratory
  12. Sandia National Laboratory
  13. University of Illinois at Chicago

Energy storage is an integral part of modern society. A contemporary example is the lithium (Li)-ion battery, which enabled the launch of the personal electronics revolution in 1991 and the first commercial electric vehicles in 2010. Most recently, Li-ion batteries have expanded into the electricity grid to firm variable renewable generation, increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of transmission and distribution. Important applications continue to emerge including decarbonization of heavy-duty vehicles, rail, maritime shipping, and aviation and the growth of renewable electricity and storage on the grid. This perspective compares energy storage needs and priorities in 2010 with those now and those emerging over the next few decades. The diversity of demands for energy storage requires a diversity of purpose-built batteries designed to meet disparate applications. Advances in the frontier of battery research to achieve transformative performance spanning energy and power density, capacity, charge/discharge times, cost, lifetime, and safety are highlighted, along with strategic research refinements made by the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) and the broader community to accommodate the changing storage needs and priorities. Innovative experimental tools with higher spatial and temporal resolution, in situ and operando characterization, first-principles simulation, high throughput computation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence work collectively to reveal the origins of the electrochemical phenomena that enable new means of energy storage. This knowledge allows a constructionist approach to materials, chemistries, and architectures, where each atom or molecule plays a prescribed role in realizing batteries with unique performance profiles suitable for emergent demands.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1642422
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-153667
Journal Information:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, Issue 23
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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