IUCRC Phase I: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology: Center for Solid-State Electric Power Storage (CEPS)

NSF固态电力存储(CEPS)产学合作研究中心由三所大学组成：作为牵头大学的南达科他州矿业与技术学院(SD Mines)和合作大学：东北大学(NU)和锡拉丘兹大学(SU)。CEPS的成立是为了在学术界和工业界之间提供整合，以追求以研究为重点的储能创新。该中心通过采用关键的固态能源系统，并在上游基础研究的推动下将能源转化为工业用途，使行业、政府和国家实验室能够应对安全、高效和环保的能源存储挑战。作为一个多学科合作联盟，CEPS将通过利益相关者的大力支持和利用州和国家层面的伙伴关系获得长期可持续性。CEPS的智力优势在于解决了能源储存方面的重大挑战。该中心寻求在与绿色技术和环境可持续发展密切相关的能源储存研究方面创造并提供美国的领导地位。CEPS SD Mines工厂建立了材料设计和测试方面的研究和基础设施，以及生产固态电池组件的先进制造能力。这些制造能力包括物理气相沉积、超音速冷喷涂和气溶胶喷射沉积技术，以生产3D固态电池。SD Mines的能力将协同整合，包括原子级建模、环境分析、先进电池管理系统的设计，以及使用人工智能和机器学习的性能演变过程。在行业指导下，CEPS将通过行业驱动的研究项目扩大这些领域，为便携式、汽车和电网应用带来安全和可持续的下一代固态储能。该中心将努力营造一个包容的学习环境，让教职员工和学生，无论种族、民族和性别，都能成长和成功。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Solid-State Electric Power Storage (CEPS) is comprised of three university sites: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SD Mines) as the lead university and partner universities: Northeastern University (NU) and Syracuse University (SU). CEPS is established to provide integration between academia and industry in the pursuit of research focused energy storage innovations. The Center enables industries, government, and national laboratories to meet the challenges of safe, efficient, and environmentally-friendly energy storage by adopting critical solid-state energy systems and enabling translation into industrial use driven by upstream basic research. As a multi-disciplinary collaborative consortium, CEPS will acquire long-term sustainability through strong support from stakeholders and leveraging partnerships at the state and national level. CEPS's intellectual merit is in addressing significant challenges in energy storage. The Center seeks to create and provide U.S. leadership in energy storage research closely linked to green technologies and environmental sustainability. The CEPS SD Mines site is built research and infrastructure in materials design and testing as well as advanced manufacturing capabilities to produce solid-state battery components. These manufacturing capabilities include physical vapor deposition, supersonic cold spray, and aerosol-jet deposition technologies to produce 3D solid-state batteries. The SD Mines capabilities will be synergistically integrated to embrace atomic-level modeling, environmental analysis, design of advanced battery management systems, and performance evolution processes using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Guided by industry, CEPS will expand these areas through industry-driven research projects leading to safe and sustainable solid-state next-generation energy storage for portable, automotive, and electric power grid applications. The Center will seek to foster an inclusive learning environment where faculty, staff, and students, regardless of race, ethnicity, and gender, can grow and succeed.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.