Conference: Gordon Research Conference on Batteries-Ventura

该奖项将为将于2024年2月25日至3月1日在加利福尼亚州文图拉举行的2024年戈登电池研究会议(GRC)提供部分支持。GRC将为电化学储能领域的研究生和博士后研究员提供重要的专业发展活动。GRC还将通过该领域的新老科学家和工程师的互动，促进可再生能源存储电池的新进展。理解和改进包括电池在内的当前电化学能量存储系统的技术挑战，需要许多学科的研究人员的合作努力。在理解决定和支配电池系统的功能、操作、性能限制和故障的原子和分子水平的过程方面，仍然存在许多根本性的差距。要揭示控制这些复杂和相互关联的过程的基本原则，至关重要的是需要基础知识。有了这些基础知识，可以开发出材料设计中的全新概念，以生产能够以较低成本存储更高能量密度和较长循环寿命的电极、电解液和电池单元。会议将讨论与固态电池、下一代电池、先进特性、电池回收以及政策和技术经济相关的主题。GRC关于电池的主题突出了会议框架下的理论、材料合成和工程概念。该奖项反映了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。

This award will provide partial support for the 2024 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Batteries, to be held in Ventura, CA on February 25-March 1, 2024. The GRC will provide significant professional development activities for graduate students and post doctoral research fellows in the area of electrochemical energy storage. The 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.The technical challenges of understanding and improving current electrochemical energy storage 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 battery 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 conference will cover topics related to solid state batteries, next generation batteries, advanced characterization, battery recycling, and policy and techno- economics. The theme of the GRC on batteries highlights theory, materials synthesis, and engineering concepts under the umbrella of the conference.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.