The design and mapping of next generation nano lithium-ion battery cathodes

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Advanced energy storage materials are essential to the continued economic prosperity of our society, and will become evermore so as transportation electrification and renewable energy development continues to grow at a rapid pace. Accelerated discovery and development in advanced energy storage materials is, therefore, vital to our national economic output and competitiveness in the twenty-first century. This collaborative project aims to foster the development of an urgently needed economic engine for rapid materials innovation through the combined computational design, synthesis, and characterization of novel energy storage materials. The accelerated discovery of new lithium-ion based battery materials will be facilitated by combining the materials modeling and nanoscale characterization expertise at McGill University with the battery material synthesis expertise at Hydro-Quebec. Through this synergistic approach we aim to fuel the Canadian driven discovery, development, manufacturing, and deployment of advanced lithium-ion battery cathode materials (with high energy density and high power capability) more rapidly than is possible today, at a fraction of the cost.