DMREF: Collaborative Research: Next-Generation Nanostructured Polymer Electrolytes by Molecular Design

DMREF：合作研究：通过分子设计开发下一代纳米结构聚合物电解质

• 批准号: 1333736
• 负责人: Nitash Balsara
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1333736&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DMREF; Collaborative; Research; Next; Generation

Thomas Miller and Zhen-Gang Wang of the California Institute of Technology, Nitash Balsara of the University of California - Berkeley, and Geoffrey Coates of Cornell University are supported by an award from the Chemistry Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program in the Chemistry division for a collaborative research effort aimed at advancing the development and discovery of high-performance, non-flammable, solid polymer electrolytes for rechargeable lithium batteries. The project integrates expertise in theory and simulation of materials, materials synthesis, and the characterization of polymer electrolyte materials. The project involves a tightly coupled research approach in which state-of-the-art theoretical and coarse-graining methods drive the screening and design of new polymer electrolytes, as well as the detailed understanding of ion diffusion mechanisms; promising polymer electrolyte candidates are synthesized in the laboratory, and their ion transport characteristics are measured and tested in full cells. This research effort is providing fundamental and essential knowledge to enable the development of battery technologies that are critical for transportation and other large-scale energy storage applications. The development and deployment of safe, low-cost, high-performance batteries is of great societal need for affordable and reliable energy storage. A key strength of the research effort is the tight integration and synergy between simulation, theory, synthesis, characterization, and cell assembly. Guidance from experimentally verified theoretical constructs allows the focused design of new polymer electrolytes. Synthesis of these materials, preselected using theory, allows for more rapid production of materials with superior properties. Measurement of material properties is then used to validate and further guide theory and modeling. Pursuit of this integrated research effort will lead to a significant progress towards the goal of rational materials design for polymer systems.

Thomas Miller and Zhen-Gang Wang of the California Institute of Technology, Nitash Balsara of the University of California - Berkeley, and Geoffrey Coates of Cornell University are supported by an award from the Chemistry Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program in the Chemistry division for a collaborative research effort aimed at advancing the development and discovery of high-performance, non-flammable, solid polymer可充电锂电池的电解质。 该项目将材料，材料合成和聚合物电解质材料的表征的理论和模拟中的专业知识融为一体。 该项目涉及一种紧密耦合的研究方法，在这种方法中，最先进的理论和粗粒方法可以推动新聚合物电解质的筛选和设计，以及对离子扩散机制的详细理解。有希望的聚合物电解质候选物在实验室中合成，并在完整细胞中测量和测试其离子传输特性。这项研究工作提供了基本和基本知识，以使电池技术的开发对于运输和其他大规模的储能应用至关重要。 安全，低成本，高性能的电池的开发和部署是对负担得起和可靠的能源存储的巨大社会需求。 研究工作的关键优势是模拟，理论，合成，表征和细胞组装之间的紧密整合和协同作用。 经过实验验证的理论构建体的引导允许重点设计新的聚合物电解质。使用理论预选的这些材料的合成可以使具有出色特性的材料生产更快。然后，使用材料特性的测量来验证和进一步指导理论和建模。 追求这一综合研究工作将导致朝着聚合物系统合理材料设计的目标取得重大进展。