Kelsey B. Hatzell

Position
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office Phone
Office
224 Andlinger Center
Education

Phd - Material Science and Engineering - Drexel University

MS - Mechanical Engineering - Penn State University

B.S. Engineering - Swarthmore College

B.A. Economic - Swarthmore College

Bio/Description

Honors and Awards

  • Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 2024
  • ONR Young Investigator Program, 2023
  • NASA Early Career Faculty Award, 2022
  • POLiS Award of Excellence, Germany Consortium for Beyond Li-ion batteries, 2021
  • Sloan Fellowship in Chemistry, 2020
  • Toyota-ECS Young Investigator Award, 2019
  • MRS Nelson "Buck" Robinson Award, 2019
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2019
  • Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award Winner, 2017

Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Associated Faculty, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • Associated Faculty, Princeton Materials Institute

Research Interests

Hatzell's group is interested in emerging decarbonization technologies for transportation, fuel, and direct air capture applications. The group has a significant focus on energy storage (batteries/thermal) and is interested at using non-equilibrium x-ray techniques to probe materials during in situ and operando experimentation.  Hatzell's group has been examining novel inorganic and hybrid solid electrolytes for next generation solid state batteries. 

Selected Publications
  1. Dixit, Marm B., Jun-Sang Park, Peter Kenesei, Jonathan Almer, and Kelsey B. Hatzell. "Status and prospect of in situ and operando characterization of solid-state batteries." Energy & Environmental Science 14, no. 9 (2021): 4672-4711.
  2. Zaman, W., Matsumoto, R.A., Thompson, M.W., Liu, Y.H., Bootwala, Y., Dixit, M.B., Nemsak, S., Crumlin, E., Hatzell, M.C., Cummings, P.T. and Hatzell, K.B., 2021. In situ investigation of water on MXene interfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences118(49).
  3. Hatzell, K.B., Chen, X.C., Cobb, C.L., Dasgupta, N.P., Dixit, M.B., Marbella, L.E., McDowell, M.T., Mukherjee, P.P., Verma, A., Viswanathan, V. and Westover, A.S., 2020. Challenges in lithium metal anodes for solid-state batteries. ACS Energy Letters5(3), pp.922-934.
  4. Ren, Y., Hortance, N., McBride, J., & Hatzell, K. B. (2020). Sodium–Sulfur Batteries Enabled by a Protected Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Solid Electrolyte. ACS Energy Letters6(2), 345-353.
  5. Zaman, Wahid, Nicholas Hortance, Marm B. Dixit, Vincent De Andrade, and Kelsey B. Hatzell. "Visualizing percolation and ion transport in hybrid solid electrolytes for Li–metal batteries." Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7, no. 41 (2019): 23914-23921.