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Every lithium-ion battery in production for the world’s largest markets requires a polyolefin separator between anode and cathode. These separators, even at their most advanced, do not provide a preferable level of safety in the event of physical trauma to a cell or heat buildup within the cell. This problem will only become more acute as batteries move towards the higher energy densities and po ...

The primary goal of this Phase I project is to demonstrate that aromatics derived from the depolymerization of waste polystyrene can be utilized as an additive in synthetic paraffinic kerosene (SPK) to allow blending at levels exceeding 50%v in jet fuel to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions significantly.Two subgoals will be pursued in Phase I to achieve the primary goal:• Development of a fl ...

Thin-gauge foil and flat wire formats of lithium, aluminum and copper are critical to EV markets – especially for power storage performance and light-weighting of motors. Availability of Al and Cu flat wire for winding high-performance electric motors is constrained by manufacturing complexity and cost. A recent web-quote from a major automotive manufacturer “Wire manufacturing technology upst ...

The identification of structure-property-processing relationships require dynamical models that can access multitude of length spanning nanometers to microns and timescales spanning picoseconds to seconds. Despite its widespread availability of a variety of open source and commercial codes as well as their usage in various flavors, the predictive power of molecular dynamics (MD) is severely limite ...

The Biden Administration set a goal to reduce 50% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, which supports the existing goal to create a carbon free electric power sector by 2035 (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/22/fact-sheet-president-biden-sets-2030-greenhouse-gas-pollution-reduction-target-aimed-at-creating-good-paying-union-jobs-and-securing-u-s-leadership-on-cl ...

Research on the development of secure operational technology (OT) networks which support the operation of high-valued critical systems, including smart manufacturing, industrial energy delivery, military, and other critical infrastructure, has grown exponentially in the past two decades, responding to the notable increase in frequency and sophistication of state-sponsored and insider attacks. This ...

Hydrogen has a critical role to play as the US and the world accelerate toward net-zero-carbon economies. This is driven by ambitious goals and programs such as DOE’s Hydrogen Earthshot which aims to reduce the cost of clean hydrogen to $1-per-1-kilogram-in-1-decade (“111”) and the upcoming $8 billion ($8B) DOE investment in Regional Hydrogen Hubs. There is an urgent need to consider energy ...

The US currently stores around 25 MtCO2/yr of anthropogenic CO2 in saline or non-oil-production reservoirs but meeting the country’s energy transition goals requires identifying total storage between two and three orders of magnitude (10–100s GtCO2) across 100s–1,000s of storage sites. The challenge is finding the 100–1000s of CO2 storage sites to make this happen. We developed new and gam ...

Tessellated Inc., in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame (ND), proposes to perform extensive, multi-mode characterization of polymer composite films to understand and provide critical guidance to improve the thermal conductivity of such materials to above 70 W/mK. In addition, our cost analysis shows our composite films to be

Despite exponential growth in utility-scale battery storage in recent years to approximately 1 gigawatt operating capacity, pumped-storage hydropower (PSH) still accounts for around 95% of all utility-scale storage in the U.S. and globally. PSH is a proven, cost-effective technology that is poised for massive expansion throughout the U.S. if the “ΔH challenge” can be solved. The ΔH challenge ...