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

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
dc.creator Brushett, Fikile R
dc.creator Chiang, Yet-Ming
dc.date 2020-09-09T14:00:20Z
dc.date 2020-09-09T14:00:20Z
dc.date 2020-06
dc.date 2020-09-08T17:29:04Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:12:28Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:12:28Z
dc.identifier 0027-8424
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127210
dc.identifier Trahey, Lynn et al. “Energy storage emerging: A perspective from the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, 23 (June 2020): 12550–12557 © 2020 The Author(s)
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/279156
dc.description 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.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
dc.relation 10.1073/pnas.1821672117
dc.relation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
dc.rights Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.
dc.source PNAS
dc.title Energy storage emerging: A perspective from the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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