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IMAGE: From left: Marcel Baer, Nathan Tallent, and Ben Loer are recipients of a 2021 Early Career Research Program award from the U.S. Department of Energy. view more
Credit: Composite image by Shannon Colson | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
A trio of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers have each received a 2021 Early Career Research Program award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the highly competitive program. Awards to DOE-based researchers total $500,000 per year for five years for salary and research expenses.
PNNL recipients are Marcel D. Baer, senior research scientist, and Nathan R. Tallent, computer scientist, both in the Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate; and Ben Loer, physicist in the National Security Directorate.
This energy storage facility under construction in southeast England uses lithium-ion batteries. CHRIS RATCLIFFE/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES
Zinc-based cells promise to be cheaper and safer for grid storage
May. 27, 2021 , 10:30 AM
If necessity is the mother of invention, potential profit has to be the father. Both incentives are driving an effort to transform zinc batteries from small, throwaway cells often used in hearing aids into rechargeable behemoths that could be attached to the power grid, storing solar or wind power for nighttime or when the wind is calm. With startups proliferating and lab studies coming thick and fast, “Zinc batteries are a very hot field,” says Chunsheng Wang, a battery expert at the University of Maryland, College Park.