About

LEAF is an agile, multidisciplinary center that develops disruptive energy materials for the grid, transportation, and the environment from inception to demonstration.

In alignment with LLNL’s mission in energy security, materials for energy are critical to:

• Ensure access to reliable and secure energy resources
• Accelerate emerging energy technologies
• Anticipate future vulnerabilities and risks in a rapidly changing energy ecosystem

Our approach and objectives

Although LEAF sits within LLNL’s Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, our aim is to provide a bottom-up, community-driven approach that transcends organizational limits. This fluid construction allows us to connect people across LLNL who are working in this space, driving innovation.

LLNL has an ecosystem of facilities and capabilities for developing, optimizing, and prototyping materials for energy. We leverage core competencies such as advanced materials and manufacturing and high-performance computing to foster a culture of integration in areas such as synthesis-theory-data-characterization, materials to systems, and concept to manufacturing.

Overall, our approach supports several key objectives:

• Build a community in the materials for energy space with diverse backgrounds, skills, interests, and ideas
• Foster partnerships with key industry, government, and academic experts
• Communicate and promote our research
• Connect with sponsors of energy material research

To make progress in our objectives, we host workshops and seminars about topics relevant to materials for energy applications.

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