Director(s):
Gary Rubloff
Lead Institution:
University of Maryland
Mission:
To understand and build nano-structured electrode components as the foundation for new electrical energy storage technologies.
Research Topics:
bio-inspired, energy storage (including batteries and capacitors), defects, charge transport, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly), synthesis (scalable processing)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: semiconductor, metal, oxide, polymer, ionic liquid
INTERFACES: organic/semiconductor, organic/oxide, organic/metal, gas/solid, liquid/solid, solid/solid
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D, nanocomposites
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, lithography, surface science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), quantum mechanics
Partner Institutions:
- University of California, Irvine
- University of Florida
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- University of Maryland
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Yale University