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Mainstreaming graphene in electrochemical energy storage devices: A Delphi-based adaptive priority-setting

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: Mainstreaming novel materials is essential to overcome crucial limitations of energy storage devices to address societal challenges and decarbonization efforts. However, mainstreaming requires enabling conditions that are influenced by complexities and tensions. Building on the concept of outcome-oriented scaling, this study explores how prioritization of interdependent drivers and barriers influences mainstreaming graphene in electrochemical energy storage devices. We capture the knowledge and perceptions of an expert panel through a Delphi survey combined with in-depth interviews. We find the ongoing prioritization trajectories to fail in setting interdependent drivers and barriers as a vision to achieve impact at scale, in creating opportunities to accelerate mainstreaming, and in addressing key sustainability pressures and reconfiguration barriers. Also, we find widespread consensus that urgent action is required to bend the prioritization trajectories in the right direction to achieve impact at scale. Mainstreaming graphene is likely to challenge, compete and disrupt incumbent systems instead of enabling a smooth transition.

Source: Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable development

DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2022.10.004

Authors: Ali Haidar, José Guimón, Javier Pérez Martínez

Institutions: Avanzare (Spain), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Language: English

Topic: Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Affordable and clean energy, Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Climate action

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,750