SYMPOSIUM 6: Advanced Materials and Technologies for Rechargeable Energy Storage

The significant increases in demand of world energy consumption as well as clean and efficient energy resources have prompted the imperative searches of new materials and technologies. The intermittent nature of renewable power generation technologies will require new solutions for efficient and reliable energy storage. This symposium will focus on advanced engineering ceramics and technologies that could help the global community to achieve the stated goals. It will explore state-of-the-art materials and technologies for energy storage, improvements in materials design, electrodes architecture, electrolytes, separators and cell chemistries. These are key factors to extend the life, enhance the safety, and lower the cost of rechargeable batteries, which are regarded as the most efficient energy storage systems for portable electronics, renewable energy storage, smart grid, and transportation applications. A deeper understanding of the battery materials/property relationship, electrode/ electrolyte interface phenomena, and cell failure mechanisms is critically needed to face these challenges. The search for advanced high-capacity electrode materials, solid electrolytes and the implementation of the very challenging all-solid-state batteries, lithium batteries, lithium-sulfur, metal-air batteries, beyond lithium technologies including sodium batteries, Mg/Ca/Al-based batteries will be necessary to overcome the energy density shortfall and safety issues in currently commercial batteries. 

This symposium will focus on crystal chemistry, structural analysis, materials processing, powder metallurgy, sintering, transport properties, structural and mechanical characterization, new testing methods, cost/performance and reliability issues, commercialization, market prospects and recyclability related to batteries and supercapacitors. 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 

• Solid electrolytes for batteries  

• All-solid-state batteries 

• Advanced anode and cathode materials for lithium and sodium batteries 

• Materials design, screening, and electrode architectures for lithium and sodium batteries 

• Diagnostics and materials characterization for lithium and sodium batteries 

• Electrode/electrolyte interface characterization for lithium and sodium batteries 

• Applications focused lithium and sodium batteries 

• Lithium-sulfur battery technology 

• Potassium batteries, magnesium batteries and calcium batteries 

• Materials of capacitive energy storage (super-capacitors) 

• Recycling of battery materials  

• Stationary rechargeable batteries for grid, solar, and wind technologies 

• Machine learning and AI tools 

Symposium Organizers 

• Palani Balaya, National University of Singapore, Singapore 

• Naoaki Yabuuchi, Yokohama National University, Japan 

• Valerie Pralong, CNRS CRISMAT, France 

• Mali Balasubramanian, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 

• Prabeer Barpanda, Indian Institute of Science, India 

• Donald Dornbusch, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA 

• Dong-Hwa Seo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering, Republic of Korea  

• Wan Si Tang, Underwriters Laboratories Research Institute, USA 

• B. Reeja Jayan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA  

• Shih-Kang Lin, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan 

Points of Contact  

• Palani Balaya; mpepb@nus.edu.sg 

• Naoaki Yabuuchi; yabuuchi-naoaki-pw@ynu.ac.jp  

• Valerie Pralong; valerie.pralong@ensicaen.fr  

• Mali Balasubramanian; balasubramam@ornl.gov