Materials and Interfacial Chemistry for Next-Generation Electrical Energy Storage
(PI: Sheng Dai)
Develop fundamental understanding that will enable tailoring of the chemical structure, functionality, configurational order, and architecture of electrodes and electrolytes for stable electrode/electrolyte interfaces and high ionic conduction, which will together advance next-generation energy storage
Precision Deconstruction of Polymers by Tailored Ionic Liquids
(PI: Tomonori Saito)
The overarching goal is to unravel the fundamental principles for precise deconstruction of condensation polymers using ionic liquids as both solvent and organocatalyst while establishing approaches for their reconstruction.