The battle for battery supremacy is on with Korea’s POSTECH joining other academic centres across the world. In Korea, POSTECH is joined by Seoul National, Sungkyunkwan, Chung-Ang University and KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
What other countries have joined the race to battery and electrification breakthroughs in the 21st century? I have discovered several which I list here in alphabetical order.
- Canada research is at the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Advanced Photovoltaic Devices and Systems (CAPDS, Nova Scotia’s Dalhousie University, Alberta’s University of Calgary and the University of Alberta, and the Okanagan Battery Innovation Centre at the University of British Columbia.
- China research is at Beijing-based CABRI and the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering in Zhejiang Province.
- India research is being done at the Indian Institutes of Technology located in Madras and Mumbai, as well as Shiv Nadar University.
- Israel research is led by Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv University and the Technion in a collaborative research effort called INREP, the Israel National Research Center for Electrochemical Propulsion.
- Japan battery technology research is found at the Tokyo University of Science, Yokohama National University and Tohoku University in Sendai.
- United States research is found across the country with the leading centres at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, Stanford University, the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), the University of Maryland, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state, and Philadelphia’s Temple University.
