Center for Synthetic Control Across Length-scales for Advancing Rechargeables (SCALAR)

Director

Sarah Tolbert

Lead Institution

University of California, Los Angeles

Class

2018-2022

Mission

To design materials, interfaces, and architectures that revolutionize the performance of energy storage systems by dramatically expanding the range of materials systems and chemistries that can be employed in next generation batteries.

Research Topics

electrocatalysis, electrical energy storage, defects, charge transport, mesoscale science, materials and chemistry by design, mesostructured materials, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (scalable processing)

Materials Studied

Materials: metal, oxide, polymer, electrolytes, porous

Interfaces: organic/inorganic, inorganic/inorganic, liquid/solid, solid/solid

Nanostructured Materials: 2D, 3D

Experimental and Theoretical Methods

X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray imaging, neutron diffraction and scattering, surface science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), multiscale modeling

Partner Institutions

  • California Institute of Technology
  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of California, San Diego
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • University of Southern California

BES Staff Contact

Craig Henderson