Advanced Energy Storage
2017-2019
Sponsors
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Additional Support
Theme
Energy storage is critical for a wide variety of major societal challenges, including transitioning to transportation with near-zero emissions and making the electrical grid more compatible with the generation of renewable energy. Fundamental discovery research in chemistry, materials science, engineering and related disciplines are needed to lead the way toward creation of new types of batteries and capacitors that have greater energy storage density, longer lifetimes, and which are cheaper, safer and easier to discharge and recharge.
Over the past 40 years, Li-ion battery technologies have progressed steadily, ultimately providing the current standard for portable storage with sufficient lifetimes for practical commercial use. Our current technologies are far from ideal, however. Are we sufficiently exploring all of the chemical and physical systems that can be utilized for electrochemical energy storage? Do new chemistries and materials present unexplored opportunities as electrochemical energy storage components or systems? What breakthroughs or design parameters could be explored for a high-risk, high-reward transformation to better energy storage?
Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage aimed to catalyze theorists, computational scientists and experimentalists across multiple disciplines to address these questions and more, and to collaborate to develop new and innovative projects to accelerate fundamental science driving advances in energy storage.
PREVIOUS BOOKLETS
2018 Scialog-AES Conference Booklet [517KB PDF]
2017 Scialog-AES Conference Booklet [586KB PDF]