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Esther Takeuchi Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Takeuchi, a leading battery researcher at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University professor, joins a longstanding tradition that recognizes excellence across fields
May 4, 2021
Esther S. Takeuchi, a joint appointee of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University, in 2017.
UPTON, NY–Esther S. Takeuchi, a celebrated materials scientist and chemical engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In a tradition that dates back to 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors scientists, artists, scholars, and leaders in the public, non-private, and private sectors who rise to the world’s challenges.
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Mapping Performance Variations to See How Lithium-Metal Batteries Fail
Using high-energy x-rays, scientists probed different points across a high-energy-density lithium-metal battery of interest for long-range electric vehicles and used the data to identify the main failure mechanism
April 19, 2021
Brookhaven Lab chemist and Stony Brook University (SBU) professor Peter Khalifah (middle) with SBU graduate students Zhuo Li (left) and Gerard Mattei (right) holding a pouch cell battery attached to a frame used for synchrotron x-ray studies. Note: This photo was taken prior to current COVID-19 social distancing guidelines.
UPTON, NY Scientists have identified the primary cause of failure in a state-of-the-art lithium-metal battery, of interest for long-range electric vehicles. Using high-energy x-rays, they followed the cycling-induced changes at thousands of different points across the battery and mapped the variations in performance. At each point, they used the x-ray data
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Brookhaven Lab Names New Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate Lead
Haiyan Gao, a nuclear physicist and professor, will join the Lab as Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics
April 15, 2021
Haiyan Gao
UPTON, NY–Haiyan Gao, currently the Henry W. Newson Distinguished Professor of Physics at Duke University, will join the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory as Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for Nuclear & Particle Physics (NPP) starting on or about June 1, 2021.
Gao, who has a long history in nuclear physics, will help develop Brookhaven’s collective long-term vision for the next 10 years. She’ll also work across the Laboratory and beyond to craft its emerging expertise at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a one-of-kind nuclear physics research facility that will be built at the Lab over the next decade, after Brookhaven’s flagship nuclear physics facility, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, complete
New partnership to advance high-temperature PEM fuel cells; focus on heavy-duty applications
A new partnership comprising Los Alamos National Laboratory, Advent Technology Holdings Inc., Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will work over the next few years to bring to market high-temperature proton exchange membrane (HT-PEM) fuel cells.
Traditional PEM fuel cells have a relatively low operating temperature, which makes for a low tolerance to hydrogen fuel impurities and makes waste-heat rejection a challenge for vehicles.
Artist’s concept of a heavy-duty vehicle equipped with high-temperature proton exchange membrane (HT-PEM) fuel cells.
As the heavy-duty transportation industry seeks greener alternatives to combustion engines, HT-PEM fuel cells promise a clean, efficient alternative.