Energy storage is central to many emerging technologies, including electric vehicles for transportation, renewable electricity integration, decarbonization and smart distributed energy resources on the electric grid, and electric flight. Achieving the full value of these game-changing opportunities requires a diversity of designer batteries for a diversity of applications, where each battery meets multiple targeted performance metrics required by its host application. JCESR will develop a new approach to these transformative materials, designing and building them “from the bottom up,” atom-by-atom and molecule-by-molecule, where each atom or molecule plays a prescribed role in producing the targeted overall materials behavior. A summary of JCESR’s first five years and an outlook for its renewal will be presented.

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