Energy Storage Research Department

The Energy Storage Laboratory develops energy storage technologies, targeting research and development in promising materials and devices for secondary batteries, flow batteries, super-capacitors, and advanced energy storage devices as well as scaling-up to storage system. The up-to-date R&D activities are relevant to the standardization, testing and certification of secondary batteries as well as field test to store cost-effectively renewable energy for future grid. The Laboratory’s current R&D activities include the materials and components needed for the photovoltaic recycling; the utilization for salinity power generation; and advancing membranes and catalysts under working conditions.

Representative result

01 Si nano particles
02 Redox flow battery system
03 kW-scale stack based on tandem electrodes
04 Monoclinic ingot/wafer utilizing recycled silicon

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Major research fields

All-solid-state-batteries materials and components
Grid-scale storage redox flow batteries materials and system
Supercapacitor materials and components
High performance electrodes and electrolytes
High energy density batteries like metal-air, Li-Sulfur, etc
Non-lithium-ion batteries materials and components
Test and evaluation of rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors
Capacitive deionization components and cell system
Membrane processes for carbon dioxide capture
Photovolatic panels’ end-of-life material recycling/reuse/remanufacturing

Major research results

Materials for andoe in lithium secondary batteries
kW-scale stack and redox flow battery system based on the tandem electode
BOP and operational control technology for redox flow battery
High voltage/power supercapacitors with promising materials
Flexible thin film capacitors with promising materials
Large-scale cyclic ultracapacitor based on fluid electrode
High performance organic flow battery with new redox active materials
Large scale graphene manufacturing technology
Capacitivie deionization cell with flow-electrode
Modulation and system upscaling of Pd-based hydrogen membranes for pre-combustion carbon dioxide capture
Post-combustion carbon dioxide capture processes using membrane cascade
Reuse/recycling of photovoltaic waste module
Nanoporous aerogel fabrication and applications