The Science of Scaleup: Accelerated Scaling of Materials and Manufacturing Solutions

Sarah Baker | 22-SI-006

Executive Summary

We will develop and demonstrate a multidimensional approach to advanced technology development by identifying and overcoming emergent behaviors that occur in materials and manufacturing solutions at increased throughput and performance scales. This approach will enable an accelerated ability to scale up, deploy, and demonstrate new solutions to Laboratory mission challenges.

Publications, Presentations, and Patents

Baker, Sarah E. 2022. “Carbon Utilization in the West, a National Lab Perspective.” Presented at the DOE Western Regional Carbon Conversion Procurement Grant Workshop. Emeryville, CA. September 13, 2022.

Ehlinger, Victoria M. “Optimization of Porosity Distribution in Gas Diffusion Electrodes for CO2 Electrolysis.” Presented at the 241st Meeting of the Electrochemical Society. Vancouver, BC. June 1, 2022.

Hahn, Christopher. 2021a. “Electrocatalysis for CO2 and CO Reduction: Using Microenvironments to Control Reactivity.” UC Merced, Merced, CA. November 16, 2021.

———. 2021b. Hahn, Christopher. “Electrocatalysis for CO2 and CO Reduction: Using Microenvironments to Control Reactivity.” Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology, December 22, 2021.

———. 2022. Hahn, Christopher. “Steering Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction Reactivity Using Microenvironments.” Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Materials for Humanity (MH 22), National University of Singapore, September 21. 2021.

Hawks, Steven A., Victoria M. Ehlinger, Thomas Moore, Eric B. Duoss, Victor A. Beck, Adam Z. Weber, and Sarah E. Baker. 2022. “Analyzing Production Rate and Carbon Utilization Trade-Offs in CO 2 RR Electrolyzers.” ACS Energy Letters 7 (8): 2685–93. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c01106.

Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Yucheng Fu, Chao Zeng, Du Thai Nguyen, Pratanu Roy, Jie Bao, Zhijie Xu, and Grigorios Panagakos. 2022. “Hydrodynamics of Countercurrent Flow in an Additive-Manufactured Column with Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces for Carbon Dioxide Capture.” Chemical Engineering Journal 450 (December): 138124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.138124.