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Our focus is on biofuel end use, combustion efficiency and emissions, and system concepts.</p> <h4 class="groupName"><a href="geothermal.php">Geothermal Materials</a></h4> <p>Our research is focused on developing new materials for geothermal well applications that will improve the performance of geothermal systems.</p> </div> <div class="grid_12 omega font-1"> <h4 class="groupName"><a href="renewables.php">Renewables and Grid Modernization</a></h4> <p>Our Renewables and Grid Modernization work supports the development of solutions to key issues facing the deployment, grid integration, and operation of renewable energy technologies in the United States. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="boundingBox"> <div class="container_24"> <div class="grid_24"> <h2 class="thin baseColor" style="margin-bottom:0.4em"><a href="storage/">Energy Storage Division</a></h2> <p class="font-plus-2">Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts leading-edge research into the most promising energy storage technologies for applications ranging from consumer electronics to vehicle technologies to grid-level energy storage.</p> <div class="grid_12 alpha font-1"> <h4 class="groupName"><a href="storage/in-situ-operando.php">In Situ and Operando Analysis</a></h4> <p>We have expertise in mechanistic characterization of the electrochemical energy storage processes from the material level to the systems level, to eludicidate productive and parasitic processes within functioning batteries.</p> <h4 class="groupName"><a target="_blank" href="storage/vehicle.php">Vehicle Technologies</a></h4> <p>Our research includes study and preparation of novel materials and electrodes for high energy, high power, and safe batteries including those capable of fast charge and function in extreme environments.</p> </div> <div class="grid_12 omega font-1"> <h4 class="groupName"><a href="storage/grid-level.php">Grid-level Storage</a></h4> <p>We are focused on developing electrochemical energy storage systems based on sustainable materials for safe, long life batteries.</p> <h4 class="groupName"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/m2m/index.php">Center for Mesoscale Transport Properties</a></h4> <p>BNL plays a central role in the Center for Mesoscale Transport Properties, an Energy Frontier Research Center working to understand and provide control of transport properties in complex battery systems with respect to multiple length scales, from the molecular to the mesoscale.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid_8"> <div class="tabs"> <ul> <li><a href="#tabs-1">Contacts</a></li> </ul> <div id="tabs-1"> <ul class='staffBioCards cardType4 images'> <li ln='25070'> <div class='imageContainer'><img alt='Esther Takeuchi' src='https://www.bnl.gov/staff/pics/square/25070.jpg' onerror='this.onerror=null;this.src="https://www.bnl.gov/staff/pics/square/no-photo.jpg";' ></div><div class='textContainer'><a title='Full Bio' 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