Transportation

The transportation sector is moving towards innovative, reliable, and economical technologies. 

The following research groups are focused on solutions to help transform the transportation sector:

• The Grid Integration Group is working to strengthen the evolving power grid to meet growing demand.
• The Energy Conversion Group is focused on finding ways to make hydrogen fuel cells and electrochemical and photo-electrochemical fuel generation a viable solution for the transportation sector.
• ​The Energy Storage Group works to advance next-generation battery technology that can decrease the cost and increase the range of available cars.
• The Laser Technologies Group develops novel real-time technologies for direct 3D chemical analysis of Li-ion battery materials and for the study of their complex interfacial phenomena in the nanoscale.
• ​The Applied Energy Materials Group is developing energy storage and high performance materials that will contribute to next-generation battery and vehicle technology.
• The Thermal Science Group works to better understand and improve thermal transport in batteries to enable extreme fast charging and improve battery lifetime and performance.