Craig Arnold
Susan Dod Brown Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Vice Dean for Innovation, Office of the Dean for Research
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: D404C Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-0250
Email Address: cbarnold@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Improved batteries, energy storage; materials recycling and sustainability, water purification, catalysis, advanced manufacturing, light-matter interactions.
Research Areas: Batteries, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Supercapacitors
David Gates
Managing Research Physicist, Advanced Projects Department Head, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
Location: MS40, 357 C01 LSB (PPPL)
Phone Number: 609-243-2837
Email Address: dgates@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Dr. Gates is the stellarator physics leader at PPPL. In this role he acts as the US Technical Representative for the International Collaboration on Superconducting Stellarators. He is also the Principle Investigator of an ARPA-E project entitled “Stellarator Simplification using Permanent Magnets”. At Andlinger, Dr. Gates is also performing research on the improvement of stellarator designs and has recently submitted a proposal entitled “Using permanent magnets for near perfect quasi-symmetry in a stellarator”. Stellarators are a type of plasma containment device that has great promise for creating fusion energy.
If you’d like to learn more about the stellarator concept see Dr. Gates’ lecture: https://www.pppl.gov/events/2021/science-saturday-renaissance-stellarator-fusion-concept
Research Areas: Plasma Physics, Supercapacitors
Kelsey Hatzell
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: 224 Andlinger Center
Phone Number: 609-258-2980
Email Address: kelsey.hatzell@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Work on solid ion conductors for advanced energy storage and conversion applications. We are interested in all solid state devices for electrochemical fuel production as well as energy storage systems for electric vehicles. In addition we study low-cost thermal energy storage systems for concentrated solar power integration and production.
Research Areas: Batteries, Carbon Capture & Storage, Climate Change, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Fuels, Renewable Energy, Solar, Supercapacitors, Sustainable Manufacturing/Chemistry, Transportation, Waste Heat Recovery, Water Desalination
Nan Yao
Professor of the Practice in the Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials
Director, Imaging and Analysis Center
Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Location:
Phone Number: 609-258-6394
Email Address: nyao@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Utilizing advanced imaging, diffraction, spectroscopy and in-situ techniques, in tandem with theoretical simulations, to study fundamentals of the structure-composition-processing-property-performance relations in complex materials such as nanostructured materials, biomaterials, organic/inorganic interfaces, block copolymers, catalysts, quasicrystals and functional nanomaterials.
Research Areas: Batteries, Biofuels, Carbon Capture & Storage, Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Fuels, Renewable Energy, Solar, Supercapacitors