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 systems), synthesis (self-assembly)
Systems Studied
Systems: oxide, polymer, electrolytes, porous
Interfaces: organic/inorganic, inorganic/inorganic, liquid/solid, solid/solid
Nanostructured: 1D, 2D, 3D
Experimental and Theoretical Methods
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray imaging, X-ray spectroscopy, neutron diffraction and scattering, electron microscopy, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), finite element methods, machine learning
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
