Batteries and supercapacitors are essential energy storage devices that store energy by different mechanisms. Batteries store electrical energy by conversion into chemical energy while supercapacitors store energy at electrode/electrolyte interface and these devices make up multi-billion-dollar industries. The state-of-the-art battery and supercapacitor systems can be made better – whether it is to store more energy or to be produced via environmentally friendly means. Both storage technologies seek new concepts in materials design to overcome their current limitations of performance, cycle life and safety. More critical insights are required in terms of advanced material compositions and structures, including surface/interfacial reactions to produce next-generation electrode materials enabling higher energy densities, higher power densities, safety and longer cycle life of batteries and supercapacitors. This symposium will explore novel energy storage advanced materials and technologies that are critical in making the current energy storage technologies more effective in the near future. Sessions will focus discussion on fundamental, modeling, mechanisms, materials design, screening, electrode architectures, diagnostics, materials characterization and electrode/electrolyte interface characterization of the following energy storage devices. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers opportunities to accelerate certain complex developments. Presentations on the integration of AI tools for accelerated discovery of new materials, prediction of device aging, improving safety or reliability, and other optimizations are also expected.
Proposed Session Topics
- Li-ion, Na-ion and K-ion batteries
- Multivalent batteries
- Metal sulfur batteries
- All-solid-state batteries
- High temperature batteries
- New battery concepts and systems
- Modeling and engineering of interfaces, materials and composites
- Reuse, Recycle, and Remanufacture (R3) of battery materials and systems
- Supercapacitors and Li-ion capacitors
- AI tools
Symposium Organizers
- Palani Balaya, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Michael Dolle, Université de Montréal, Canada
- Naoaki Yabuuchi, Yokohama National University, Japan
- Mali Balasubramanian, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Chunmei Ban, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
- Dany Carlier-Larregaray, ICMCB, University of Bordeaux, CNRS, France
- Robert Dominko, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
- Donald Dornbusch, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
- Shih-kang Lin, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
- Dong-Hwa Seo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering, Korea
- Neeraj Sharma, University of New South Wales, Australia
Points of Contact
- Palani Balaya, mpepb@nus.edu.sg
- Michael Dolle, mickael.dolle@umontreal.ca
- Naoaki Yabuuchi, yabuuchi-naoaki-pw@ynu.ac.jp