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Electrochemical energy storage (batteries and supercapacitors)

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Adam Heller

Adam Heller (born 1933) is an electrochemist and chemical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the lithium thionyl chloride battery and implanted glucose sensors.

Alexander Forse

Alexander C. Forse is a British materials chemist and Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, known for NMR studies of supercapacitors and batteries.

Atsuo Yamada

Atsuo Yamada (Yamada Atsuo) is a Japanese electrochemist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for lithium-ion battery research, including early LFP cathodes and nonflammable electrolytes.

Bruce Dunn

Bruce Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA, on the faculty since 1980, known for pseudocapacitive energy storage research in transition metal oxides.

Bruno Scrosati

Bruno Scrosati (1937–2024) was an Italian electrochemist at Sapienza University of Rome who pioneered rechargeable lithium batteries, including the 1980 rocking-chair cell that became the prototype of the lithium-ion battery.

Debra Rolison

Debra Rolison is an American electrochemist at the US Naval Research Laboratory known for porous nanostructured electrodes and the zinc sponge anode for rechargeable batteries.

Donghai Wang

Donghai Wang is a battery researcher who holds the Brown Foundation Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Southern Methodist University, where he joined in 2024 after 15 years at Penn State.

Doron Aurbach

Doron Aurbach (Hebrew: דורון אורבך) is an Israeli electrochemist and professor at Bar-Ilan University, known for pioneering rechargeable magnesium battery prototypes published in Nature in 2000.

Douglas MacFarlane

Douglas MacFarlane is an Australian electrochemist and Emeritus Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University known for ionic liquids and green ammonia, elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2024.

Gerbrand Ceder

Gerbrand Ceder is a computational materials scientist, professor at UC Berkeley and Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for computational materials design, battery cathode discoveries, and co-founding The Materials Project.

Gleb Yushin

Gleb Yushin (Глеб Юшин) is a materials scientist, professor at Georgia Tech, and co-founder and chief technology officer of Sila Nanotechnologies, known for silicon-carbon battery anodes.

Héctor D. Abruña

Héctor D. Abruña, also written Hector D. Abruna, is a Puerto Rico-born electrochemist and Émile M. Chamot Professor at Cornell University who received the 2024 Enrico Fermi Presidential Award.

Hye Ryung Byon

Hye Ryung Byon (변혜령) is a South Korean chemist and professor at KAIST who works on lithium batteries, redox flow batteries, and electrocatalysts, after leading a research unit at RIKEN.

Jaephil Cho

Jaephil Cho (조재필) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology since 2009, known for subnano-sized silicon anodes, reactive boride-infused cathodes, and founding the cathode maker SMLAB.

Jongwoo Lim

Jongwoo Lim (임종우) is a South Korean chemist at Seoul National University, known for operando X-ray imaging of lithium movement in battery cathodes and a 2023 Young Scientist Award.

Jordi Cabana

Jordi Cabana is a chemist at the University of Illinois Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory known for research on battery materials, including the 2015 observation of reversible magnesium-ion intercalation.

Joseph T. Kummer

Joseph T. Kummer (1919–1997) was an American chemical engineer and electrochemist at Ford Motor Company's research laboratories, known for inventing the sodium-sulfur battery and pioneering beta-alumina ionic conductors.

Keith J. Stevenson

Keith J. Stevenson is an American physical electrochemist who studied at Utah and was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 2000 to 2015.

Lynden Archer

Lynden A. Archer is an American chemical engineer at Cornell University, where he is dean of engineering, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for battery research.

M. Stanley Whittingham

M. Stanley Whittingham, born Michael Stanley Whittingham, is a British-born chemist at Binghamton University who pioneered the intercalation lithium battery and shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Martin Zdenek Bazant

Martin Zdenek Bazant is a chemical engineer and applied mathematician at MIT, known for theoretical electrochemistry, battery modeling, and a 2021 indoor COVID-19 transmission guideline.

Masayoshi Watanabe

Masayoshi Watanabe (渡邉 正義), born 1954, is a Japanese electrochemist known for pioneering research on ionic liquids and solvate ionic liquids for battery electrolytes at Yokohama National University.

Mauro Pasta

Mauro Pasta is Professor of Applied Electrochemistry at the University of Oxford, working on lithium metal anodes and solid-state batteries, and won the Royal Society of Chemistry's Corday-Morgan Prize in 2025.

Michael F. Toney

Michael F. Toney is an American electrochemist known for using synchrotron X-ray methods to study battery interfaces, and a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2020.

Michel Armand

Michel Armand (born 1946) is a French electrochemist known for the rocking-chair battery concept behind lithium-ion cells and for pioneering solid polymer electrolytes; he leads polymer electrolyte research at CIC energiGUNE in Spain.

Prashant V. Kamat

Prashant V. Kamat is a physical chemist at the University of Notre Dame known for quantum dot solar cells, perovskite photophysics, and founding editorship of ACS Energy Letters.

Rachid Yazami

Rachid Yazami is a Moroccan electrochemist known for demonstrating reversible lithium intercalation in graphite, the anode of the modern lithium-ion battery, and for battery diagnostics.

Sarah Tolbert

Sarah H. Tolbert is an American materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA known for nanostructured battery electrodes and catalysts, with more than 200 publications and 20 patents.

Stefano Passerini

Stefano Passerini is an Italian electrochemist known for ionic liquid electrolytes and sodium-ion batteries, formerly professor at Münster and the Helmholtz Institute Ulm, and since 2026 dean at Nanjing Normal University.

Veronica Augustyn

Veronica Augustyn is a materials scientist who works on electrochemical energy storage, known for intercalation pseudocapacitance research; she is the Hooks Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University.