CBET Energy Storage Workshop: Frontiers of Materials, Architectures and Techniques

该奖项支持组织一个关于储能的研讨会：材料，建筑和技术的前沿。该研讨会将于2020年3月在内华达州里诺/加利福尼亚州太浩湖地区举行，预计将有约150名与会者。该研讨会将持续一天半，将包括互动会议和海报会议，以探索和定义电化学储能领域当前关键的“大科学问题”。商业锂离子电池系统的能量含量一直在以渐进的、进化的方式增加。为了实现突破性进展，需要与现有技术（如陶瓷高能阴极和石墨基阳极电极）分开的新范例。这些新组件的改进将实现更高性能的储能系统，有助于提高太阳能和风能间歇性可再生能源发电的能力，并提高电动和混合动力汽车的性能。研讨会计划有八个专题会议，以便所有与会者都有机会就未来的主要研究方向发表意见。该结构将使用一个主题主席，邀请演讲者，并为每个主题的分组讨论模式。计划的主题是工业前景，锂和钠金属电池，固态电解质电池，新兴的锂离子阴极，混合电池电容器和快速充电系统，氧化还原液流电池，非水锂电池和水锂电池。讲习班的组织是为了使来自学术界、国家实验室和工业界的各种研究人员能够在一个协作环境中参与。该研讨会将明确的结构，以吸引尽可能广泛的跨部门的个人与旅行赠款金，以支持研究生，博士后研究员和早期职业生涯的学术研究人员。研讨会的结果将是一份公开的白色文件。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This award supports the organization of a workshop on Energy Storage: Frontiers of Materials, Architectures, and Techniques. The workshop will be held in the Reno, NV/Lake Tahoe, CA area in March 2020, and it is expected that there will be about 150 attendees. The workshop will take place over one-and-a-half days and will include interactive sessions and a poster session to explore and define current critical "Big Science Questions" in electrochemical energy storage. The energy content of commercial lithium ion battery systems has been increasing in an incremental, evolutionary manner. To achieve break-out advances, new paradigms are required that are separate from established technologies such as ceramic high energy cathodes and graphite-based anodes electrodes. These new component improvements will enable higher performance energy storage systems that help increase the capacity of intermittent renewable energy electricity generation by solar and wind and increase the performance of electric and hybrid electric vehicles. The workshop has eight planned topic sessions so that all the participants will have the opportunity to contribute their views on key future research directions. The structure will use a Topic Chair, invited speakers, and breakout discussion model for each topic. Topics planned are Industrial Perspectives, Li and Na Metal Batteries, Solid State Electrolyte Batteries, Emerging Li-Ion Cathodes, Hybridized Battery-Capacitors and Fast-Charge Systems, Redox Flow Batteries, Nonaqueous Beyond Li Batteries, and Aqueous Beyond Li Batteries. The organization of the workshop is designed so that a diversity of researchers from academia, national laboratories, and industry can participate in a collaborative environment. The workshop will be explicitly structured to attract the widest possible cross-section of individuals with travel grants to support graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career academic investigators. The outcome of the workshop will be a publicly available white paper.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.