https://www.pressreleasepoint.com/doctoral-student-gets-prestigious-doe-award-light-batteries-argonne-national-lab Doctoral student gets prestigious DOE award to light up batteries at Argonne National Lab September 6th, 2019 NYU Tandon School of Engineering
It’s not just a figure of speech to say that Jason Lipton, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering, is shedding light on rechargeable batteries. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) has selected Lipton to receive a prestigious research award that will allow him to research how exposure to photons affects energy storage in lithium-ion batteries. As one of only 70 recipients of the Graduate Student Research Award, which the DOE bestows on the strength of a graduate student’s accomplishments and the merit of their SCGSR research proposal, Lipton will have an opportunity to do experimental research at the DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) near Chicago in January. The SCGSR program is great because it gives doctoral students the unique opportunity to build a collaborative research relationship with DOE researchers,“The SCGSR program is great because it gives doctoral students the unique opportunity to build a collaborative research relationship with DOE researchers,” said Andre Taylor, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and Lipton’s graduate advisor. “This relationship can further enhance the students’ thesis work because they have access to instruments that may be available only at a National Laboratory.” [image] Jason Lipton, a Ph.D candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering heading to Argonne National Labs to research how exposure to photons affects recharging of lithium-ion batteries Lipton, who is beginning his third year of a five-year doctoral program under Taylor, explained that light has a mysterious influence on the operational characteristics of a battery, including how well they recharge. “The charging rate changes a lot when electrode material is exposed to light because photons induce a real structural change in battery electrodes such that it allows lithium ions to penetrate faster,” he said. That might be an apt metaphor for how Lipton’s research will benefit from exposure to the ANL expertise and gear. “The ANL has very sophisticated light emission technologies, battery testing equipment, and expertise doing just these sorts of light tests,” Lipton said, adding that a particularly useful piece of equipment is the ANL’s Advanced Photon Source, a mile-long synchrotron, a species of particle accelerator often used for studies on material structuring. Lipton said that because the accelerator makes possible x-ray crystal studies “in operando” — essentially in real time, while the charging process is at work — he will be able to observe changes to a battery electrode during charge or discharge both while the battery electrode is exposed to light and in the absence of light. The research could lead to solutions to a vexing problem in rechargeable batteries: the long charging times typically required for batteries such as those under the hood of electric vehicles (EV). “This is why some automakers have been developing ‘superchargers’ to reduce the charging time of their electric vehicles, for example,” he said. “We have some preliminary data that we get over two-times shorter charging time when some battery electrode materials are exposed to light, so if optimized, this has the potential to reduce ‘range anxiety’ by electric car drivers — and ultimately greater adoption of EV’s — by reducing the amount of time necessary to charge their cars.” [© pressreleasepoint.com] + https://www.thedrive.com/news/29766/electrify-americas-fast-charger-gets-porsche-taycan-from-5-to-88-battery-in-22-minutes Electrify America's Fast-Charger Gets Porsche Taycan From 5 to 88% Battery in 22 Minutes September 11, 2019 ... vw's Electrify America charging network is announcing ... its DC fast-charging offering ... 270 kW DC fast charging ... making ultra-fast public charging a true reality ... https://the-drive-3.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fapi.thedrive.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F09%2FLarge-Electrify-America-s-Open-Network-of-Ultra-Fast-DC-Chargers-First-to-Charge-An-800-Volt-Electric-Vehicle-Battery-at-270-Kilowatts-347.jpg%3Fquality%3D85?w=1440&auto=compress%2Cformat&ixlib=js-1.4.1&s=930a73bc1988b21e58323b8789e4038e For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
