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The Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division (ESDR) works on developing advanced batteries and fuel cells for transportation and stationary energy storage, grid-connected technologies for a cleaner, more reliable, resilient, and cost-effective future, and demand responsive and distributed energy technologies for a dynamic electric grid.
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We work closely with academic, government and industry partners to conduct foundational and applied research that provides the groundwork for the development of transformative new energy technologies in the areas of energy storage and conversion, electrical grid, advanced materials for the energy infrastructure, science of manufacturing and water-energy nexus.

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2017

Rajput, Nav Nidhi, Vijayakumar Murugesan, Yongwoo Shin, Kee Sung Han, Kah Chun Lau, Junzheng Chen, Jun Liu, Larry A. Curtiss, Karl T. Mueller, and Kristin A. Persson."Elucidating the Solvation Structure and Dynamics of Lithium Polysulfides Resulting from Competitive Salt and Solvent Interactions."Chemistry of Materials 29.8 (2017) 3375 - 3379. DOI

2015

Canepa, Pieremanuele, Saivenkataraman Jayaraman, Lei Cheng, Nav Nidhi Rajput, William D. Richards, Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam, Larry A. Curtiss, Kristin A. Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Elucidating the structure of the magnesium aluminum chloride complex electrolyte for magnesium-ion batteries."Energy & Environmental Science 8.12 (2015) 3718 - 3730. DOI

Qu, Xiaohui, Anubhav Jain, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Lei Cheng, Yong Zhang, Shyue P. Ong, Miriam Brafman, Edward Maginn, Larry A. Curtiss, and Kristin A. Persson."The Electrolyte Genome project: A big data approach in battery materials discovery."Computational Materials Science 103 (2015) 56-67. DOI

Cheng, Lei, Rajeev S. Assary, Xiaohui Qu, Anubhav Jain, Shyue P. Ong, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Kristin A. Persson, and Larry A. Curtiss."Accelerating Electrolyte Discovery for Energy Storage with High-Throughput Screening."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6 (2015) 283-291. DOI

2003

Kerr, John B., Gao Liu, Larry A. Curtiss, and Paul C. Redfern."Towards room-temperature performance for lithium-polymer batteries."Electrochimica Acta 48 (2003) 2305-2309.