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

NSF固态电力存储产学研合作研究中心（CEPS）由三所大学组成：南达科他州矿业与技术学院（SD Mines）作为牵头大学，合作大学包括东北大学（NU）和锡拉丘兹大学（SU）。 CEPS的成立旨在提供学术界和工业界之间的整合，以追求以研究为重点的储能创新。该中心使行业，政府和国家实验室能够通过采用关键的固态能源系统来应对安全，高效和环保的能源存储挑战，并在上游基础研究的推动下将其转化为工业用途。 作为一个多学科的合作财团，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来获得长期的可持续性。CEPS的智力价值在于解决能源储存方面的重大挑战。该中心旨在创造和提供美国在与绿色技术和环境可持续性密切相关的储能研究方面的领导地位。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的功能将进行协同集成，以涵盖原子级建模、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进化流程。在行业的指导下，CEPS将通过行业驱动的研究项目扩展这些领域，为便携式，汽车和电网应用提供安全和可持续的下一代固态储能。该中心将寻求促进一个包容性的学习环境，教师，员工和学生，无论种族，民族和性别，都可以成长和成功。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

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.