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Jeffrey SpangenbergerReCell Center director and group leader in materials recycling at Argonne. Research focuses include battery and material recycling, industrial process scale-up, and closed-loop recycling modeling projects. |
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Bryant PolzinReCell Center deputy director and a process engineer at Argonne where he is responsible for lithium-ion battery materials evaluation and process development in multiple cell configurations, including coin cells, pouch cells, and 18650s in the CAMP Facility. |
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ReCell Center kick-off meeting at Argonne National Laboratory
Advisory Board
Venkat Srinivasan
ANL
Venkat Srinivasan is the director of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) and the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR).
Matthew Keyser
NREL
Electrochemical Energy Storage Group Manager
Matt Keyser leads the electrochemical energy storage group at NREL. His focus at NREL has been on growing the energy storage laboratory facilities to over 9,000 ft2of laboratory space that enables electrochemical material fabrication, safety analysis, thermal and electrical characterization.
Ilias Belharouak
ORNL
Ilias Belharouak is a Distinguished Scientist and the leader of the Battery Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Group in the Energy and Transportation Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee.
Eric Dufek
INL
Dr. Eric Dufek is the department manager for Idaho National Laboratory’s Energy Storage & Electric Vehicle Department, overseeing over 40 research scientists, engineers, postdoctoral researchers and interns.
Focus Leads
Jessica Durham Macholz
Direct Recycling of Materials Lead
Dr. Jessica Durham is a Materials Scientist in the Applied Materials Division at Argonne National Laboratory. She is part of the Materials Recycling R&D group working in the Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF). She is a lead investigator in DOE’s ReCell Center for advanced battery recycling where she investigates safe and cost effective direct recycling processes for lithium-ion batteries, specifically with respect to cell pre-processing, cathode/anode separation, and cathode/cathode separation.
Yaocai Bai
Advanced Resource Recovery Lead
Yaocai Bai is an R&D Staff Scientist within the Emerging and Solid-State Batteries Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Yaocai’s research focuses on accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy through materials innovation and developing sustainable processes for lithium-ion battery recycling.
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Andrew Colclasure
Design for Sustainability Lead
Andrew Colclasure leads NREL’s materials development and modeling research efforts within the Electrochemical Energy Storage group. His work includes advances in electrochemical modeling and experimentation for fast charging, next-generation silicon anodes, battery recycling, solid-state electrolytes, eliminating the use of critical materials, and physics-based machine learning
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Allison Bennett-Irion
Modeling and Analysis Lead
Allison Bennett Irion serves on the senior leadership team at Argonne National Laboratory for both the Advanced Energy Technologies (AET) and Nuclear Technologies and National Security (NTNS) directorates as the Director of Supply Chain Research. She develops and coordinates a lab-wide strategy to enhance Argonne’s supply chain impacts, bringing together analytical and experimental capabilities to address national security and clean energy challenges.
Matt Keyser
Crosscutting Efforts Lead
Matt Keyser leads the electrochemical energy storage group at NREL. His focus at NREL has been on growing the energy storage laboratory facilities to over 9,000 ft2of laboratory space that enables electrochemical material fabrication, safety analysis, thermal and electrical characterization.
University Collaborators
Yan Wang
Yan Wang is an associate professors in mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Research focuses on the study of new electrodes and materials for energy storage, including lithium ion batteries, supercapacitors, flow batteries, battery safety and recycle, and fundamental electrochemistry.
Lei Pan
Lei Pan is an assistant professor in chemical engineering at Michigan Technological University. Research focuses on surface chemistry and process modeling of particulate separation processes.
Zheng Chen
Zheng Chen is an assistant professor in NanoEngineering at the University of California at San Diego. research focuses on development of novel nanostructured and polymeric materials for cutting-edge applications including electrochemical energy devices (batteries, supercapacitors, and fuel cells), flexible and printable devices, and sustainable water and resources.
Business Development Executive
Greg Halder
Greg supports industry partnerships and commercialization of Argonne technologies in the areas of stationary energy storage, catalysis & fuel cell technologies, transportation research, and X-ray & accelerator sciences.
