Microporous membranes strongly influence solvation structure, dynamics, and transport of the working ions in a broad range of energy storage devices for electric mobility and the grid. I will discuss leading-edge synthetic strategies to diversify membrane architectures to exert control over these properties and highlight how they might be put to work in lithium metal and redox-flow batteries. I will also showcase novel characterization methods for studing fundamental structure-tranport properties for ions under confinement in microporous membranes and for understanding the membrane performance using advanced X-ray characterization, from scattering and spectroscopy to tomography.

Molecular engineering of polymer membranes for energy storage devices

ACS Spring Meeting 2021

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