Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport Center (FIRST)
Director
Sheng Dai
Lead Institution
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Class
2009-2022
Mission
To achieve fundamental understanding and validated, predictive models of the atomistic origins of electrolyte and coupled electron transport under nanoconfinement that will enable transformative advances in capacitive electrical energy storage and other energy-relevant interfacial systems.
Research Topics
electrical energy storage, extreme environments, defects, mechanical behavior, charge transport, separations, water, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel systems), synthesis (predictive)
Systems Studied
Systems: oxide, electrolytes, ionic liquid, porous
Interfaces: organic/inorganic, liquid/solid
Nanostructured: 1D, 2D, 3D
Experimental and Theoretical Methods
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray spectroscopy, neutron diffraction and scattering, neutron spectroscopy, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, surface science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), multiscale modeling, machine learning
Partner Institutions
- Ames Laboratory
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Drexel University
- North Carolina State University
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Pennsylvania State University
- Tulane University
- University of California, Riverside
- University of Tennessee
- Vanderbilt University
