<br/>As the world accelerates its efforts to transform our current energy system into one with net-zero emissions, the National Academies of Science<sup>1</sup> has identified five key technology goals to accelerate decarbonization: 1) invest in energy efficiency and productivity, 2) electrify energy services in transportation, buildings, and industry, 3) produce carbon-free electricity, 4) plan, permit, and build critical infrastructure and 5) expand the innovation toolkit. This future “electrified” energy system will require low-cost, high performance energy storage throughout the system. While Lithium ion dominate both transportation and grid applications today, it took for over 40 years of research and development to ultimately deploy to the energy market. Given the urgency of the climate challenge and the collection of new research tools available today, there is a clear expectation that we innovate the next generation of energy storage materials and technologies faster. This overview presentation will describe high level energy and energy storage trends, energy storage options and performance targets for energy storage.

Energy storage grand challenges: Accelerating the development of next generation energy storage materials

ACS Fall 2021

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