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The Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA) (DE-AC02-06CH11357) is an Energy Innovation Hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences. ESRA supported research includes the following publications (listed in reverse chronological order; to be updated as new studies are released).

  1. Ruozhu Feng et al. 2025. “Agentic Assistant for Materials Scientists.” Electrochem. Soc. Interface 34 45. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/2.F09252IF
  2. Wang, Bingning, Lihong Gao, Zhenzhen Yang, Xianyang Wu, Qijia Zhu, Qian Liu, Fulya Dogan, Yang Qin, and Chen Liao. 2025. “Interphase Engineering Enabled by Using a Separator with Electrochemically Active Carbazole Polymers for Lithium-Ion Batteries” Polymers 17, no. 13: 1815. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym17131815.
  3. Kyle S. Jiang, Kyeong-Ho Kim, Betar M. Gallant, “How reliable is coin-cell-based ranking of Li anode Coulombic efficiency?,” Joule, 2025, 101963, ISSN 2542-4351, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.101963.
  4. Zirong He, Nitash P. Balsara, “Understanding the Conductivity and Transference Trade-Off in Polymer Electrolytes Using a Robeson-Inspired Upper Bound,” ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 7 (10), 5960-5968, 2025. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsapm.5c00288
  5. Liu, Z. et al, “FIB-SEM: Emerging multimodal/multiscale characterization techniques for advanced battery development,” Chemical Reviews, 2025. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00831
  6. Wang, B., Doan, H.A., Son, SB. et al, “Data-driven design of electrolyte additives supporting high-performance 5 V LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 positive electrodes,” Nat Commun 16, 3413, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57961-w
  7. Haozhe Zhang et al, “Challenges and Opportunities for Rechargeable Aqueous Sn Metal Batteries,” Adv. Mater., 2417757, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202417757
  8. Minghao Zhang et al, “Grain selection growth of soft metal in electrochemical processes,” Joule, 101847, 2025. [PDF]
  9. Abdelilah Asserghine, Nafisa Ibrahim, Shrayesh N. Patel, Joaquín Rodríguez-López, “Salt matters: How ionic strength and electrolytes impact redox polymer reactivity and dynamics for energy storage,” Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 50 101636, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coelec.2024.101636
  10. Ruozhu Feng et al, “Miniaturize the redox flowbattery for accelerated materials discovery and development,” J. Electrochem. Soc. 171 120532, 2024.