Scientific Program
Monday, August 26
12:00 Registration, lunch, and exhibition
13:10 Welcome address
David Reber, Empa and Corsin Battaglia, Empa
13:20 (Invited) Trends in Lithium Batteries: An American Perspective for the Future
M. Stanley Whittingham
Binghamton University, New York
13:50 Toward the Accelerated Discovery of Electroactive Materials for Li-ion and Na-ion Batteries
Maha Ismail, Iciar Monterrubio, Ainhoa Bustinza, Oier Arcelus, Joseba Orive, Maria Angeles Cabañero, Javier García, Evaristo Castillo, Javier Carrasco, Montse Casas-Cabanas, Marine Reynaud
CIC energiGUNE, Basque Country University, Ikerbasque
14:10 Towards an Autonomous Robotic Battery Materials Research Platform Powered by Automated Workflow and Ontologized FAIR data management
Enea Svaluto-Ferro, Nukorn Plainplan, Graham Kimbell, Benjamin Kunz, Maximilian Becker, David Reber, Ruben-Simon Kühnel, Peter Kraus, Edan Bainglass, Loris Ercole, Francisco F. Ramirez, Giovanni Pizzi, Nicola Marzari, Yuhui Hou, Stefano Di Leone, Andrew Paterson, Dominique Sauter, Emmanouil Tzirakis, Jos de Keijzer, Amira Abou-Hamdan, Michael Schneider, Corsin Battaglia
Empa, PSI, EPFL, ETH, Chemspeed Technologies
14:30 Coffee break and exhibition
14:50 (Invited) What Silicon Can Enable in All-Solid-State Batteries
Y. Shirley Meng
University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois
15:20 Interfacial Stabilization by Prelithiated Trithiocyanuric Acid as an Organic Additive in Sulfide-based All-Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries
Leonie Braks, Jinsong Zhang, Alexander Forster, Patrick W. Fritz, Jihoon Oh, Mario El-Kazzi, Jang Wook Choi, Ali Coskun
Université de Fribourg, PSI, Seoul National University
15:40 Assessment of Critical Stack Pressure and Temperature in Li‐Garnet Batteries
Matthias Klimpel, Huanyu Zhang, Giulia Paggiaro, Romain Dubey, Faruk Okur, Lars P.H. Jeurgens, Kostiantyn V. Kravchyk, Maksym V. Kovalenko
ETH, Empa
16:00 Poster session and apéro riche
19:00 End of day one
Tuesday, August 27
08:30 Coffee and exhibition
09:00 (Invited) Electrolytes, Interfaces, and Interphases
Kang Xu
SES AI Corp., Massachusetts
09:30 Fluorinated Cyclic Ether-based Electrolytes for Stable Electrode/Electrolyte Interphases in Lithium Metal Batteries
Hafiz Ahmad Ishfaq, Carolina Cruz Cardona, Elena Tchernychova, Patrik Johansson, Robert Dominko, Sara Drvarič Talian
Slovenia National Institute of Chemistry, University of Ljubljana, Alistore, Chalmers University of Technology
09:50 Understanding the Role of Zn2+ Solvation Environment in Enabling Efficient Cycling of Zn Metal Anodes
Dario Gomez Vazquez, Travis P. Pollard, Julian Mars, Jimun Yoo, Hans-Georg Steinrück, Sharon E. Bone, Olga V. Safonova, Michael F. Toney, Oleg Borodin, Maria R. Lukatskaya
ETH, US Army Research Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder, Universität Paderborn, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, PSI
10:10 Coffee and exhibition
10:30 (Invited) Design of Layered Electrode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries by Doping and Solvent Co-Intercalation
Philipp Adelhelm
Humboldt Universität Berlin, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin
11:00 Quantifying the O-redox Contribution to the Charge Compensation Mechanism in Na0.67Mn0.62Fe0.19Al0.1O2 - Cathode Material for Na-ion Batteries
Dominika Baster, Thorsten Schmitt, Adam H. Clark, Teguh C. Asmara, Yuan Wei, Zheng Tao, Juliana B. Falqueto, Mario El Kazzi
PSI
11:20 Sidorenkite-type Cathodes Na3Fe(XO4)(CO3) (X = P, Si) for High Energy Density Na-ion Batteries
Samuel Franz Gatti, Andrea Testino, Sigita Trabesinger
PSI
11:40 New Electrode Formulation for High-Temperature Na-ZnCl2 Batteries
Sajad Rahimi, Enea Svaluto-Ferro, Fabrizio Vagliani, Diego Basso, Alberto Turconi, Andrea Pozzi, Corsin Battaglia, Meike Heinz
Empa, Horien, formerly FZSoNick
12:00 Group photo
12:15 Lunch and exhibition
13:30 (Invited) The Development of Redox Flow Batteries with Solid Boosters: The NASTOR Project
Emmanuel Baudrin
Université de Picardie Jules Verne/CNRS
14:00 Design of Naphthalene Diimide for Highly Soluble and Stable Negolyte in Organic Redox Flow Batteries
Hye Ryung Byon
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
14:20 Exploring the Surface Chemistry and Electrochemical Performance of Plasma-Treated Carbon Felts for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries
Sayed Ali Ahmad Alem, Yining Huang, Dominik Wickenhauser, Bernhard Marius, Darlin Bregu, Christine Bandl, Stefan Spirk, Wolfgang Kern
Montanuniversität Leoben, Ecolyte, TU Graz
14:40 Coffee and exhibition
15:00 (Invited) Impedance Spectroscopy on Metal Anodes (tbd)
Jelena Popovic-Neuber
University of Stavanger
15:30 Diagnosing the Mechanism for Zn Dendrite Growth and Suppression via in situ Liquid Cell TEM
Yi Yuan, Shengda D. Pu, Miguel A. Pérez-Osorio, Zixuan Li, Shengming Zhang, Sixie Yang, Boyang Liu, Chen Gong, Ashok S. Menon, Louis F. J. Piper, Xiangwen Gao, Peter G. Bruce, Alex W. Robertson
University of Oxford, University of Warwick, Global Institute of Future Technology
15:50 Kinetically Induced Memory Effect in Li-ion Batteries
Pierfrancesco Ombrini, Qidi Wang, Alexandros Vasileiadis, Fangting Wu, Ziyao Gao, Xia Hu, Martijn van Hulzen, Baohua Li, Chenglong Zhao, Marnix Wagemaker
TU Delft, Tsinghua University
16:10 The Importance of Academic Research in Creating a European Battery Startup Ecosystem (tbd)
Kristina Edström
Uppsala University
16:40 End of day two
18:00 Conference dinner
Wednesday, August 28
08:30 Coffee and exhibition
09:00 Welcome address industry day
Corsin Battaglia
Empa, iBAT
09:10 (Invited) Activation Durability of Carbon Electrodes for Vanadium Flow Batteries
Alasdair Robertson
Invinity Energy Systems
09:40 (Invited) Iron-Chromium Flow Batteries (tbd)
Tom Gebauer
Redox One
10:10 (Invited) All-Iron Flow Batteries (tbd)
John Alper
VoltStorage
10:40 Coffee and exhibition
11:10 (Invited) Sodium Vanadium Fluorophosphates and Hard Carbon (tbd)
Mathieu Morcrette
Tiamat
11:40 (Invited) Commercial Sodium cathodes (tbd)
Minglong He
ABB
12:10 Poster award
12:20 Lunch and exhibition
13:30 Welcome address iBAT
Corsin Battaglia, Empa, iBAT
13:40 (Invited) Blue Solutions Keynote
Richard Bouveret
Blue Solutions
14:10 Thin-Film Solid-State Batteries
Moritz Futscher
BTRY
14:30 High Performance Supercapacitors
Clara Moldovan
Swistor
14:50 Coffee and exhibition
15:20 Multilayer Curtain Coating for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Paul Baade
8inks
15:40 Membraneless Flow Batteries
David Taylor
Unbound Potential
16:00 Closing remarks and end of conference
