Science and Engineering of Solid-State Portable Power Structures
Senior Investigators:
- Gerbrand Ceder (group leader)
- Martin Z. Bazant
- Angela M. Belcher
- Yang Shao-Horn
- Donald R. Sadoway
Research Goals
The need for efficient portable power is extremely important in today's society and is becoming critically important to many new technologies that will impact consumer electronics and communication, health monitoring, entertainment, environmental oversight, and national security. This IRG seeks to develop the basic science and engineering of materials for solid-state electrochemical power sources, and to use this fundamental knowledge to design devices with energy and power delivery capabilities far superior to those of anything available today.
Read more about IRG-IV activities in our 2008 annual report (PDF)
Highlights of Recent Research:
Virus-grown battery materials (2008)
A new high-rate environmentally friendly battery material may help hybrid electric vehicles get up and go (2007)
Seeing is believing when it comes to understanding battery instability (2006)
Understanding a flower-like arrangement of atoms may lead to lithium batteries with double the capacity (2005)
Atomic imaging of lithium in licoo2 for lithium batteries (2004)
Understanding the failure mechanisms of lithium batteries (2003)
Improved polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries (2003)
