CETM
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Director(s):
Grigorii Soloveichik
Lead Institution:
General Electric Global Research
Years:
2009-2014
Mission:
To develop the fundamental basis for an entirely new high-density energy storage system that combines the best properties of a fuel cell and a flow battery.
Research Topics:
catalysis (homogeneous), catalysis (heterogeneous), energy storage (including batteries and capacitors), hydrogen and fuel cells, charge transport, membrane, synthesis (novel materials)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: metal, polymer, ionic liquid
INTERFACES: organic/metal, liquid/solid
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 1D, 3D, nanocomposites
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
surface science, density functional theory
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Partner Institutions:
- General Electric Global Research
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Stanford University
- Yale University