Energy Storage

Energy storage is critical, both to enable greater renewable generation on the grid and to decarbonize the transportation and building sectors, to name a few.

MEI2 Director, Eric Wachsman, discusses making batteries safer with CBS This Morning.

The University of Maryland (UMD) is considered by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to be among the top four universities in the nation in terms of battery research, as evident by its success in DOE funded battery research awards, and the Maryland Energy Innovation Institute (MEI²) has been transitioning this battery research preeminence into Maryland based battery companies.

Faculty engaged in battery research include:

Paul Albertus	Kyo Yong Choi	Hosam Fathy
Reza Ghodssi	Liangbing Hu	Alireza Khaligh
Peter Kofinas	Sangbok Lee	Yifei Mo
Michael Pecht	Gary Rubloff	Eric Wachsman
Chunsheng Wang	YuHuang Wang	Taylor Woehl

University Spin-off Companies in Battery Technology

Ion Storage Systems is commercializing UMD solid-state battery technology, has raised over $40M in private VC financing, with over 70 employees in its 33,000 ft² manufacturing facility in Beltsville MD.
Aqualith is commercializing UMD “water-in-salt” battery technology.
WH-Power is commercializing UMD low-temperature battery technology.
Ionic Devices in Hyattsville MD is commercializing UMD thin film battery technology.

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