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ast month, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE, www.
energy.gov) announced that two Energy Innovation Hub
teams would receive a total of $125 million ($62.5 million
to each team) in funding over five years to " seed and accelerate
next-generation technologies beyond today's generation
of lithium (Li)-ion batteries. " The two Energy Innovation Hub teams
are the Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA) and the Aqueous
Battery Consortium (ABC).
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Energy Innovation Hubs
ESRA will focus on developing compact batteries for heavy-duty
transportation and grid energy storage. The ESRA team consists of
nearly 50 researchers, led by DOE's Argonne National Laboratory
(ANL, www.anl.gov) with both Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(Berkeley Lab) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
(PNNL) as co-leaders. Twelve universities are partnered with the
three national laboratories in this effort. ESRA will ground its work in
basic science to address challenges in battery development, including
achieving safety, high-energy density and long-life using inexpensive,
abundant materials. In its press release, ANL says, " ESRA
seeks to enable transformative discoveries in materials chemistry,
gain a fundamental understanding of electrochemical phenomena at
the atomic scale and lay the scientific foundations for breakthroughs
in energy storage technologies. "
ABC aims to establish the scientific foundation for large-scale development
and deployment of aqueous batteries for long-duration
grid-storage technologies. Stanford University (www.stanford.edu)
and SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; www.slac.stanford.
edu) will lead the team of 31 scientists, engineers and physicists
from 12 universities, SLAC, the U.S. Army and Naval Research Labs.
ABC will work toward developing an aqueous battery with a higher
energy density than current lead-acid batteries that is environmentally
safe and considerably less expensive than Li-ion batteries. Both
ESRA and ABC will prioritize using materials that are abundant to
avoid supply-chain bottlenecks.
In this issue
Today's rechargeable batteries are dominated by Li-ion technology.
The growing demand for these batteries in everything from small electronics
to electric vehicles to large-scale energy storage is prompting
a surge in the need for lithium. This month's cover story examines the
current state of lithium supply and processing in the U.S. (see Lithium
Landscape: Activity is Charging Forward in the U.S., pp. 22-26).
In the meantime, researchers are following multiple pathways to
improve battery technologies beyond the Li-ion standard, with goals
that include achieving higher energy densities, better safety and
cost-effectiveness. One promising pathway is leading toward solidstate
batteries (SSB). A number of the challenges
involved with SSB development are discussed in
our Solids Processing article (Controlling Process
Variables for Solid-State Battery Performance, pp.
41-43). Advances in energy storage technologies
are surging (see for example Solid-State Battery
Advances, p. 9), and Chemical Engineering will
continue to follow and report those advances. ■
Dorothy Lozowski, Editorial Director
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