Rechargeable batteries have reshaped our lives, while constant improvements in materials and chemistries of new battery architectures will dictate our energy future. This symposium builds upon recent developments in energy storage technologies toward battery materials that can reliably provide the necessary power and energy covering a wide range of applications, from portable electronic devices via batteries powering sustainable e-mobility to stationary battery modules and long-duration energy storage systems that enable the transformation to a more sustainable power grid. A number of topics will be covered ranging from the design of new materials to the engineering of battery devices. In particular, the symposium will target experimental and computational approaches oriented to materials discovery, the development of new characterization tools to provide insight in electrochemical processes occurring at the materials and at the device levels.

The Scope of the Symposium will include:
– Materials design for safer lithium, or sodium-based batteries
– Multivalent-ion (Zn, Mg, …) batteries
– Reconciling high energy density with long cycle life
– Designing materials for ultrafast charging and discharging
– All-solid-state Li and Na-based batteries
– Polymer and Polymer-Ceramic Composite Electrolytes
– Novel liquid electrolyte formulations for high safety and voltage
– Advances in enabling Li/Na metal anodes
– Advanced characterization using imaging, spectroscopy, diffraction, and
in situ/operando techniques
– Interfacial stability and conductivity design of solid electrolytes against metal anodes and high-voltage cathodes
– Mechanical stress, deformation and fracture evolution at electrode-electrolyte interfaces
– “Anode-free” Li/Na batteries
– Novel device architectures for battery design
– Redox Flow batteries
– Structural and Multifunctional Batteries
– Long-duration energy storage systems
– Metal-air and metal-sulfur batteries
– Understanding battery safety and mechanisms of failure
– Advances in battery materials processing
– Process-structure-property relationships in the synthesis and scale-up of solid electrolytes and composite electrodes
– Computational modelling and design of materials and devices
– Materials genome approaches, machine learning, multiscale modeling of materials and devices
– Recycling, rejuvenation, repurposing as sustainable approaches to End of Useful Battery Life

Information will be available soon!