Brookhaven chemist Xiao-Qing Yang will serve as the general coordinator for the Battery500 Phase 2 consortium and as Brookhaven Lab’s point of contact. Under the new funding arrangement, Brookhaven Lab will receive $1.3 million per year for the next five years. It is a renewal of funding for the original Battery500 Consortium, which was established in 2016. The total budget of Battery500 Phase 2 is $75M for the next 5 years. Identifying lower-cost materials is another primary goal. Such materials could reduce the size and weight of batteries used in electric vehicles and/or extend the vehicle’s driving distance for a given battery weight with better safety characteristics. Battery500 Phase 2Īs partners in “Battery500 Phase 2,” which is led by DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a team of Brookhaven scientists will conduct studies to identify battery electrode materials with increased energy density.
More information, including descriptive labels, can be found at DOE Explains: batteries. This animation shows the movement of lithium ions and electrons during charging and discharging (use) of a rechargeable battery. These two projects will be carried out by scientists in Brookhaven Lab’s Chemistry Division. Scientists can use what they learn from these characterization studies to fine-tune and test new material designs with the goal of improving and optimizing performance. These facilities give scientists access to information about the atomic-level structure and chemical properties of battery materials, including under operating conditions. (For rechargeable batteries, like the ones in electric vehicles, the whole system runs in a reversible manner, allowing for repeated charge and discharge cycles.)īoth Brookhaven projects will make use of research capabilities at two Brookhaven Lab user facilities, which operate with funding from the DOE Office of Science: the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), which produces extremely bright x-rays for studying a wide range of materials, and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), home to a suite of electron microscopes and nanoscale fabrication tools. “By developing smarter vehicle batteries, we can make these technologies cheaper and more accessible, while positioning America to be become a global leader of EV infrastructure production and clean energy jobs.”īrookhaven Lab will be involved in projects aimed at understanding and refining the materials that make up all major components of batteries-the anode (negative electrode), cathode (positive electrode), and the electrolyte that shuttles charged ions from one electrode to the other as electrons move in the opposite direction through an outside circuit to provide power. Granholm in a DOE statement announcing the funding. “President Biden’s Administration wants to make it easier for millions of American families and businesses to make the switch to electric vehicles,” said Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. The funding comes from the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). Scientists from DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory will play key roles in two EV battery projects-one aimed at understanding and improving materials for battery anodes and cathodes and another to guide the design of safer electrolytes. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $209 million in funding for 26 new laboratory projects focusing on electric vehicles (EV), advanced batteries, and connected vehicles.
Enyuan Hu (front) and Peter Khalifah, two of the principal investigators for battery research projects that just received funding from the Department of Energy, at NSLS-II's X-ray Powder Diffraction beamline.
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