Esther Takeuchi

About

Esther Takeuchi is the William and Jane Knapp Chair of Energy and the Environment and a SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, within the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. Her research focuses on the advancement of battery systems with high energy and power densities, which are critical for energy storage solutions involving renewable sources such as wind, photovoltaic, hydroelectric, and geothermal power. Her work aims to enable the full utilization of renewable energy, support portable electronics, hybrid and electric vehicles, biomedical devices, aerospace applications, and influence community power management through improved energy storage technologies. Professor Takeuchi’s research efforts are collaborative and involve the synthesis and analysis of electroactive materials, exploring structure/function relationships and redox properties related to electrochemical energy storage. Her investigations include fundamental mechanistic studies of redox processes, ion transport, and electrode precipitation/dissolution, which are essential to battery science. She has received numerous honors, including the E. V. Murphree Award from the American Chemical Society, induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, and recognition as a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Nanotechnology
• Materials science
• Engineering
• Engineering physics
• Systems engineering
• Optoelectronics
• Chemistry
• Electrical engineering
• Thermodynamics

Selected publications

• The challenges and opportunities of battery-powered flight

  Nature · 2022 · 475 citations

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• Electron and Ion Transport in Lithium and Lithium-Ion Battery Negative and Positive Composite Electrodes

  Chemical Reviews · 2023 · 344 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Electrochemical energy storage systems, specifically lithium and lithium-ion batteries, are ubiquitous in contemporary society with the widespread deployment of portable electronic devices. Emerging storage applications such as integration of renewable energy generation and expanded adoption of electric vehicles present an array of functional demands. Critical to battery function are electron and ion transport as they determine the energy output of the battery under application conditions and wh…

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• Multiscale Understanding and Architecture Design of High Energy/Power Lithium‐Ion Battery Electrodes

  Advanced Energy Materials · 2020 · 287 citations

  Abstract Among various commercially available energy storage devices, lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) stand out as the most compact and rapidly growing technology. This multicomponent system operates on coupled dynamics to reversibly store and release electricity. With the hierarchical electrode architectures inside LIBs, versatile functionality can be realized by design, while considerable difficulties remain to be solved to fully exploit the capability of each constituent. With the rapid electrif…

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• From Fundamental Understanding to Engineering Design of High‐Performance Thick Electrodes for Scalable Energy‐Storage Systems

  Advanced Materials · 2021 · 224 citations

  cell-level energy densities and strategies are elaborated to simultaneously enhance energy/power output. Furthermore, the remaining challenges are highlighted toward realizing scalable high-energy/power energy-storage systems.

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• Energy dispersive X-ray diffraction (EDXRD) for operando materials characterization within batteries

  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · 2020 · 44 citations

  This perspective article describes the use of energy dispersive X-ray diffraction (EDXRD) to study the evolution of electrochemical energy storage materials. Using a synchrotron light source, EDXRD allows crystallographic changes in materials to be tracked from deep within large specimens, due to the use of highly penetrating X-rays and the ability to define a well-controlled diffraction gauge volume in space. Herein we provide an overview of battery work performed using the EDXRD technique, as…

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Recent grants

• Improved Batteries for Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators

  NIH · $1.1M · 2008–2014

• Improved Batteries for Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators

  NIH · $354k · 2008–2012

Frequent coauthors

• Amy C. Marschilok

  Brookhaven National Laboratory

  1425 shared

• Kenneth J. Takeuchi

  Stony Brook University

  1267 shared

• David C. Bock

  Brookhaven National Laboratory

  426 shared

• Lei Wang

  317 shared

• Lisa M. Housel

  Stony Brook University

  186 shared

• Andrea M. Bruck

  Northeastern University

  160 shared

• Yimei Zhu

  Brookhaven National Laboratory

  143 shared

• Calvin D. Quilty

  Stony Brook University

  143 shared

Labs

• Esther Takeuchi's LabPI

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Education

• B.S., Chemistry

  Cornell University

  1981

• M.S., Chemistry

  Cornell University

  1983

• Ph.D., Chemistry

  Cornell University

  1987

Awards & honors

• E. V. Murphree Award, American Chemical Society (2013)
• Charter Member National Academy of Innovation (2013)
• Fellow Electrochemical Society (2012)
• National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee (2011)
• Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal (2010)

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