High-Performance Structural Batteries

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Download : Download high-res image (193KB) Download : Download full-size image Brandon J. Hopkins is a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) focused on advancing next-generation electrochemical energy systems. Hopkins received his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he worked on aqueous metal–air batteries. As a master’s candidate at MIT, he was part of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) where he created gravity-driven flow batteries using semi-solid suspensions. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and interned at Akamai Technologies, Inc. and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Download : Download high-res image (181KB) Download : Download full-size image Debra Rolison (left) heads and Jeffrey Long (center) and Joseph Parker (right) are members of the Advanced Electrochemical Materials Section at NRL. They design, synthesize, characterize, and prototype 3D-structured, ultraporous, multifunctional, hold-in-your-hand nanoarchitectures for such rate-critical applications as catalysis, energy storage and conversion, ultrafiltration, and sensors. They recently demonstrated that reformulating zinc into a monolithic sponge form-factor allows Zn-based batteries to be cycled at high rate to high specific energy without forming cell-shorting dendrites. They received their PhDs in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980, 1997, and 2010, respectively.