AES Team Awards

Advanced Energy Storage Team Awards

Goal: to catalyze theorists, computational scientists, and experimentalists across multiple disciplines, including chemistry, engineering, materials science, and physics, to collaborate on developing new and innovative ideas to accelerate fundamental science driving advances in energy storage.

Team Awards 2019

Data-Driven Discovery of Bifunctional Metal Air Battery Cathodes
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
Funded by the Sloan Foundation

Recharge, Re-liquify, Re-wet (Re3): Self-Healing Interfaces for Solid-State Batteries
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
Funded by the Sloan Foundation

SurPhase: Elucidating a Self-Coating Mechanism for Improved Cathode Performance
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
Funded by the Sloan Foundation

A Porosity-free Sodium Glass Electrolyte Formed at Room Temperature: Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Approach
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
Funded by RCSA

DIRECT: Designer Interfacial Reactivity via Electrostatically-Enhanced Charge Transfer
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
Funded by RCSA

Solid Electrolytes with Dual Li-and F-ion Conductivity to Overcome the Tyranny of Gravimetric Capacity
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 
Funded by RCSA

Team Awards 2018

Solid Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) "Skin Graft"
Candace Chan, materials science, Arizona State University
Anne Co, chemistry, Ohio State University
Hui (Claire) Xiong, materials science, Boise State University
Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Probing the Mechanistics of a Molecularly Tailored Solid/Solid Interface
Beth Guiton, chemistry, University of Kentucky
Partha Mukherjee, mechanical engineering, Purdue University
Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, chemistry, University of Utah
Funded by Research Corporation

Solid Electrolytes with Entropy-Enhanced Ionic Conductivity and Stability for High-EnergyDensity Lithium Batteries
Yan-Yan Hu, chemistry, Florida State University
Shyue Ping Ong, nanoengineering, University of California, San Diego
Yuan Yang, physics, Columbia University
Funded by Research Corporation

Water in Redox Active Ionic Liquid (WIL) Electrolytes for Energy Storage
Kah Chun Lau, physics, California State University, Northridge
Tianbiao Leo Liu, chemistry, Utah State University
Yuan Yang, physics, Columbia University
Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

e-COBRA: eutectic Co-deposition Based Rechargeable Anodes
Lauren Marbella, chemical engineering, Columbia University
Partha Mukherjee, mechanical engineering, Purdue University
Venkat Viswanathan, mechanical engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Scaling the sensitivity gap to probe interfaces of high voltage cathodes
Bryan McCloskey, chemical and biomolecular engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Louis Piper, physics, Binghamton University
Funded by Research Corporation

Team Awards 2017

Ion REASSIN: Ion Re-coordination at Solid-State Interfaces
Veronica Augustyn, materials science and engineering, North Carolina State University
Matthew McDowell, materials science and engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Aleksandra Vojvodic, chemical and biomolecular engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Funded by Lyda Hill Philanthropies

Defining interfacial reactivity in high capacity Li-ion cathode materials
Jordi Cabana, chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bryan McCloskey, chemical and biomolecular engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Aleksandra Vojvodic, chemical and biomolecular engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Funded by Research Corporation

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Batteries based on Quinone Crystals: Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Approach
Jahan Dawlaty, chemistry, University of Southern California
Puja Goyal, chemistry, Binghamton University
Yan Yao, engineering and materials science, University of Houston
Funded by Research Corporation

High-Voltage Dual-Ion Batteries
Zhenxing Feng, chemical engineering, Oregon State University
Shyue Ping Ong, nanoengineering, University of California, San Diego
Scott Warren, chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Funded by Research Corporation

Discovery of New Metal Nitrides for Divalent Cation Intercalation Systems
Aaron Holder, chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder
James Neilson, chemistry, Colorado State University
Funded by Research Corporation

ReO3: A model for understanding the participation of anions in redox processes
Brent Melot, chemistry, University of Southern California
Louis Piper, physics, Binghamton University
Funded by Research Corporation