Area of Research by Staff

Externally Funded Research Activities

• Materials Characterization (Understanding Performance
  and Lifetime Limitations)
  • In-Situ Microscopy
    • Karren More
  • In-Situ Fatigue Testing
    • Claus Daniel
  • Focused-Ion-Beam Micromachined Electrodes for Determination
    of Intercalation-Induced Strains
    • Claus Daniel
    • Nancy Dudney
    • Ann Marie Sastry
• Materials Processing (Advanced Low-Cost Processing,
  Process Control, and Scaling)
  • Self-Assembled, Nanostructured Carbon for Energy Storage
    and Water Treatment
    Collaboration with Honeywell Specialty Materials
    • David DePaoli
• Materials and Systems Simulations (Understanding
  Characterization Results and Guiding Next-Generation Systems)
  • TBA
• New Concepts and Materials
  • Li-S—Internal Seed Funding
    • Chengdu Liang
  • PHEV R&D-High Energy Materials
    • Claus Daniel

Internally Funded Research Activities

• Materials Behavior Underlying the Electrochemical Performance
  of Advanced Batteries
  • Sheng Dai
• Design of Evanescent-Wave Power Transfer for Parked and
  Moving Hybrid Electric Vehicles
  • Matthew B. Scudiere
• Computer Design and Predictive Simulation of High-Capacity,
  Cyclable, and Versatile Nanoporous Supercapacitors for
  Energy Storage Applications
  • Vincent Meunier
• Understanding Interfacial Electrochemical Phenomena in
  Advanced Energy Storage Capacitors Using Spectroscopy
  and Modeling
  • Kevin Shuford
• Laser-Enhanced, Nanoscale-Focused, Electron-Beam-Induced
  Processing
  • Jason Fowlkes
• Novel Carbon Materials for Advanced Energy Storage – complete 2009
  • David DePaoli
• Development of Lightweight Lead-Acid Batteries – complete 2009
  • Edgar Lara-Curzio
• Antiferroelectric Thin-Film Capacitors for
  Ultrafast High-Power Energy Storage – complete 2008
  • Ho Nyung Lee
• Nanoparticle Phase Change Materials: The Nanoscale Science Basis
  for Gigajoule Energy Storage – complete 2008
  • Miroslaw Gruszkiewicz
• New LDRD cross cutting initiative, “Solar Generation and Storage of Electrical Energy"
• Evaluation of proposals under way – new starts soon to be announced

Further Capabilities and People

• High Temperature Materials Laboratory (HTML)
• Materials Processing
• Electrolytes, Ionic Liquids, and Carbons
  • Coming soon.
• Battery Test Lab
  • Nancy Dudney
• Thermophysical Measurements and Thermal Runaway Characterization
  • Hsin Wang