Director(s):
M. Stanley Whittingham
Lead Institution:
Stony Brook University
Mission:
To understand how fundamental chemical reactions occur at electrodes and to use that knowledge to design new chemical energy storage systems.
Research Topics:
energy storage (including batteries and capacitors), defects, charge transport, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel materials)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: metal, oxide
INTERFACES: organic/oxide, organic/metal, metal/oxide, liquid/solid, solid/solid
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 1D, 2D, 3D, nanocomposites
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray imaging, X-ray spectroscopy, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, near-field scanning optical microscopy, surface science, neutron diffraction and scattering, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, continuum modeling, mesoscale modeling
Partner Institutions:
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Binghamton University
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Cambridge, UK
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Michigan
- Rutgers University
- Stony Brook University