Scialog: AES 2019 Collaborative Innovation Awards
Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage aims to catalyze theorists, computational scientists and experimentalists across multiple disciplines to collaborate on developing new and innovative projects to accelerate fundamental science driving advances in energy storage.
In 2019, Year 3 of this initiative, RCSA and its funding partner, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, provided a total of $990,000 in seed funding for cutting-edge research proposed by participating teams.
Awards funded by the Sloan Foundation:
Shoji Hall, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University; Iryna Zenyuk, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine; Zachary Ulissi, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University -- Data-Driven Discovery of Bifunctional Metal Air Battery Cathodes
Matthew McDowell, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Partha Mukherjee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University; Neil Dasgupta, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan -- Recharge, Re-liquify, Re-wet (Re3): Self-Healing Interfaces for Solid-State Batteries
Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Zheng Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Institute of Technology; Alexander Urban, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University -- SurPhase: Elucidating a Self-Coating Mechanism for Improved Cathode Performance
Total: $495,000
Awards funded by RCSA:
Yan Yao, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston; Neil Dasgupta, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan; Alexander Urban, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University -- A Porosity-free Sodium Glass Electrolyte Formed at Room Temperature: Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Approach
Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Veronica Augustyn, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University; Jahan Dawlaty, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California -- DIRECT: Designer Interfacial Reactivity via Electrostatically-Enhanced Charge Transfer
Yan-Yan Hu, Department of Chemistry, Florida State University; Jordi Cabana, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago; Brent Melot, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California -- Solid Electrolytes with Dual Li-and F-ion Conductivity to Overcome the Tyranny of Gravimetric Capacity
Total: $495,000
