Kelsey Hatzell

Kelsey Hatzell
Alma materSwarthmore College
Pennsylvania State University
Drexel University
Scientific career
InstitutionsVanderbilt University
Princeton University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
ThesisConducting (suspension) flowable electrodes for water and energy technologies (2015)
Doctoral advisorYury Gogotsi

Kelsey Hatzell is an American materials scientist who is a professor at Princeton University. Hatzell studies new materials for sustainable technologies, with a focus on next-generation energy storage. She is interested in the nanoscale phenomena responsible for battery failure.

Early life and education

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Hatzell studied economics at Swarthmore College and mechanical engineering at Pennsylvania State University.[1] She moved to Drexel University for her doctoral research, where she studied flowable electrodes for water and energy technologies with Yury Gogotsi.[2] Her research involved electrochemistry, materials and colloidal science to create new electrode structures. She developed carbon-based and manganese oxide materials for scalable solid-state energy storage systems.[2] After graduating, she moved to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she developed soft and hard x-ray techniques to understand the properties of polymers.[3]

Research and career

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Hatzell was appointed an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University.[3][4] Hatzell joined Princeton University in 2021.[citation needed] Her research considers new materials for sustainable technologies, with a focus on solid-state and redox flow batteries. She is particularly interested in why batteries fail.[5] She identified that irregularities in electrolytes impacted the movement of ions, which could cause battery failure if the ions all migrated to particular locations.[6] Hatzell has created inorganic membranes for high energy density batteries and grid storage.[7]

Hatzell has developed strategies to minimize the costs of direct air capture systems, which generally require energy-intensive operating protocols to reduce the impact of carbon emissions and remove them from the atmosphere. These systems conventionally rely on heat or pressure changes to release captured carbon dioxide into storage (e.g. solvents heated to high temperatures). Hatzell developed an ion-exchange resin, which efficiently capture carbon dioxide at low humidity and release it at high humidity – without the need for high temperatures.[8]

Awards and honors

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Selected publications

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  • Chang E Ren; Kelsey B Hatzell; Mohamed Alhabeb; Zheng Ling; Khaled A Mahmoud; Yury Gogotsi (September 25, 2015). "Charge- and Size-Selective Ion Sieving Through Ti3C2Tx MXene Membranes". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 6 (20): 4026–4031. doi:10.1021/ACS.JPCLETT.5B01895. ISSN 1948-7185. PMID 26722772. Wikidata Q47335960.
  • Kelsey B Hatzell; Marta C Hatzell; Kevin M Cook; Muhammad Boota; Gabrielle M Housel; Alexander McBride; E Caglan Kumbur; Yury Gogotsi (February 11, 2015). "Effect of oxidation of carbon material on suspension electrodes for flow electrode capacitive deionization". Environmental Science & Technology. 49 (5): 3040–3047. doi:10.1021/ES5055989. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 25633260. Wikidata Q43328828.
  • Kelsey B Hatzell; Muhammad Boota; Yury Gogotsi (September 28, 2015). "Materials for suspension (semi-solid) electrodes for energy and water technologies". Chemical Society Reviews. 44 (23): 8664–8687. doi:10.1039/C5CS00279F. ISSN 0306-0012. PMID 26412441. Wikidata Q38594199.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Energy materials expert Kelsey Hatzell wins teacher-scholar award". Princeton Engineering. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Conducting (suspension) flowable electrodes for water and energy technologies". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "PhD Alumna Kelsey Hatzell Appointed Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt". Drexel University College of Engineering. May 6, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  4. ^ "Engineering school recruits 11 new faculty members". School of Engineering. October 9, 2017. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  5. ^ "Investigating battery failure to engineer better batteries". Argonne National Laboratory. January 26, 2023. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  6. ^ "Fixing a hidden flaw could unlock better batteries for electric vehicles". Princeton Environmental Research. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  7. ^ "Kelsey Hatzell awarded funding for research on redox flow batteries | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering". mae.princeton.edu. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  8. ^ "Princeton Engineering - Engineers use moisture to pull carbon dioxide out of the air". Princeton Engineering. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  9. ^ "2015 Commencement Awards". Drexel University College of Engineering. June 9, 2015. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  10. ^ "Engineering professor wins Sloan Research Fellowship award". School of Engineering. February 17, 2020. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  11. ^ "Alumna Kelsey Hatzell, PhD named a 2020 Sloane Research Fellow". Drexel University College of Engineering. February 25, 2020. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  12. ^ "Scialog – NES Fellows and Facilitators". Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  13. ^ "Seven engineering faculty members receive NSF CAREER awards". Princeton Engineering. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  14. ^ "POLiS Award of Excellence". www.postlithiumstorage.org. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  15. ^ "Early Career Faculty 2022". NASA. August 19, 2022. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  16. ^ "Kelsey Hatzell wins SEAS junior faculty award". Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Princeton University. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  17. ^ "Hatzell and Majumdar win early career award from the Office of Naval Research". Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Princeton University. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
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