GRC/GRS Batteries: Advances in Characterization, Analysis, Theory and Modeling of Basic Processes March 9-14, 2014, Ventura, CA

该奖项将为2014年戈登电池研究会议（GRC）和戈登电池研究研讨会（GRS）提供部分支持，会议将分别于2014年3月8-9日和3月9-14日在加州文图拉举行。预计50名GRS参与者中的大多数将参加GRC， GRC的出席人数上限为200人。GRC将举办两场海报会议和九场技术会议，其中包括一场专门讨论初级研究人员最近采用的新方法的会议。所有的演讲都是来自受邀的演讲者，他们代表了该领域的领导者。理解和改进当前的电化学能量存储（EES）系统（包括电池）的技术挑战需要许多学科研究人员的共同努力。在理解决定和控制EES系统的功能、操作、性能限制和故障的原子和分子水平过程方面，仍然存在许多根本性的差距。为了揭示控制这些复杂且相互关联的过程的基本原理，迫切需要基础知识。有了这些基础知识，就可以开发出材料设计的全新概念，用于生产能够以更低的成本存储更高能量密度、更长的循环寿命的电极、电解质和电池。选择GRC和GRS关于电池的主题是为了促进研究EES许多方面的研究人员之间的思想交流。GRS计划将包括研究生和博士后研究助理的简短演讲，以及讨论时间和海报会议。技术内容将分为三个部分，专门用于储能材料，电池表征方法的进展，以及电化学界面的研究。拟议的GRS和GRC将为电化学储能领域的研究生和博士后研究人员提供重要的专业发展活动。GRS和GRC还将通过在该领域既新又成熟的科学家和工程师的互动，刺激可再生能源存储电池的新进展。

This award will provide partial support for the 2014 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Batteries, to be held in Ventura, CA on March 8-9 and March 9-14, 2014, respectively. The majority of the 50 GRS participants are expected to attend the GRC, which will have attendance capped at 200 participants. The GRC will feature two poster sessions and nine technical sessions, including a session dedicated to novel approaches recently taken by junior investigators. All presentations are from invited speakers who represent the leaders in the field.The technical challenges of understanding and improving current electrochemical energy storage (EES) systems, which include batteries, require a collaborative effort from researchers in many disciplines. There are still many fundamental gaps in understanding the atomic- and molecular-level processes that determine and govern the function, operation, performance limitations, and failure of EES systems. Fundamental knowledge is critically needed to uncover the underlying principles that control these complex and interrelated processes. With this underpinning knowledge, wholly new concepts in materials design can be developed for producing electrodes, electrolytes, and battery cells that are capable of storing higher energy densities and have long cycle lifetimes, at lower cost. The themes of the GRC and GRS on batteries have been chosen to facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers who work on many aspects of EES. The GRS program will consist of short talks from graduate students and post doctoral research associates, mixed with discussion time and poster sessions. Technical content will be divided into three sessions, dedicated to materials for energy storage, advances in battery characterization methods, and studies of electrochemical interfaces. The proposed GRS and GRC will provide significant professional development activities for graduate students and post doctoral research associates in the area of electrochemical energy storage. The GRS and GRC will also stimulate new advances in batteries for renewable energy storage through interaction of scientists and engineers who are both new and established in this field.