Plenary Speaker
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Stanley Whittingham
To be announced
Keynote Speakers
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Michel Armand
(CIC Energigune)
Beyond Lithium: What Can Be Made Solid-state?
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Peter Bruce
(University of Oxford)
The Rechargeable Lithium-oxygen Battery – the Cathode Challenge
![Feng_INV](https://projects.dii.unipd.it/beli24/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Feng_INV.jpg)
Xuning Feng
(Tsinghua University)
Fundamentals of Li-Battery Thermal Failure
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Juergen Garche
(Ulm University)
The Li Battery, the Controlled Bomb
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Steve Greenbaum
(Hunter College of CUNY)
Recent NMR Investigations of Novel Electrolytes for BeLI
![Guo_INV](https://projects.dii.unipd.it/beli24/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Guo_INV.jpg)
Xin Guo
(Huazhong University)
Pathways towards High-Performance Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries
![Paddison_INV](https://projects.dii.unipd.it/beli24/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Paddison_INV.jpg)
Stephen Paddison
(University of Tennessee)
Multivalent Ion Clustering and Transport in Ternary Systems: Copolymer/Ionic Liquid/Salt
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Emanuel Peled
(Tel Aviv University)
Lithium and Sodium Metal Batteries
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Jean-Yves Sanchez
(LEPMI-Grenoble INP)
From Polymer Electrolytes to Calcium-conducting Ionomers: a Route Towards Reversible Calcium Batteries?
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Shi-Gang Sun
(Xiamen University)
Studies of Lithium-Oxygen Battery Systems
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Yang-Kook Sun
(Hanyang University)
Tailoring Microstructure and Surface of Ni-Rich Cathodes for High-Performance Electric Vehicle Batteries
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Marnix Wagemaker
(Delft University)
Design of Solid Electrolytes, Role of Disorder in the Li-ion Conductivity and Beneficial Solid Electrolyte Redox in the Electrochemical Stability
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Tom Zawodzinski
(University of Tennessee)
Way Beyond Lithium: ‘Open’ Battery Concepts
Invited Speakers
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Philipp Adelhelm
(Humboldt-University Berlin)
Tuning the Properties of Inorganic Anodes and Cathodes for Na-ion Batteries
![Battaglia](https://projects.dii.unipd.it/beli24/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Battaglia.jpg)
Corsin Battaglia
(Empa)
Stable Hydroborate Solid-State Lithium Battery with High-Voltage NMC811 Cathode
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Maria Helena Braga
(University of Porto)
Advancing Battery Technology: Harnessing Oscillatory Dynamics in Ferroelectric Topological Insulator Electrolytes
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Zheng Chen
(UC San Diego)
Direct Recycling of Lithium-ion Batteries: Challenges and Opportunities
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Guanglei Cui
(Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Thermal Runaway Mechanism of High Energy Density Lithium Ion Batteries
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Shanmukaraj Devaraj
(CIC Energigune)
Sustainable Polysalt and Its Multifunctional Role in Li/Na Metal Solid-state Polymer Batteries
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Maximilian Fichtner
(Helmholtz-Institute Ulm)
Recent Results and Progress with Multivalent Batteries
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Betar Gallant
(MIT)
Interplays of Composition and Function at the Interphases of Lithium Metal Anodes
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Birger Horstmann
(Helmholtz-Institute Ulm)
Effect of SEI on Dissolution and Growth of Lithium Whiskers
![Ishikawa_INV](https://projects.dii.unipd.it/beli24/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Ishikawa_INV.jpg)
Masashi Ishikawa
(Kansai University)
Rechargeable Battery with S-confined Porous C Cathode and Li Metal Anode
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Christopher Johnson
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Advanced Electrode Materials and Electrolytes for Sodium-ion Batteries
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Haegyeom Kim
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Materials Development and Their Integration for High Energy and Long Cycle Life Solid-State Li Metal Batteries
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Pawel Kulesza
(University of Warsaw)
Optimization and Evaluation of Utility of Highly Concentrated Iodine/Iodide Electrolytes for Redox Flow Batteries
![Li_INV](https://projects.dii.unipd.it/beli24/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Li_INV.jpg)
Yuzhang Li
(UC Los Angeles)
New cryo-EM Tools for Studying Dynamic Interfaces in Battery Materials
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Gao Liu
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
The Application of Conductive Polymers in Beyond Lithium-ion Batteries
![Liu-P_INV](https://projects.dii.unipd.it/beli24/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Liu-P_INV.jpg)
Ping Liu
(UC San Diego)
Faceted Lithium Crystal Seeds: Formation and Function
![Mantz](https://projects.dii.unipd.it/beli24/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Mantz.jpg)
Robert Mantz
(OSD(R&E))
Rewewable Energy Generation and Storage Technologies
![Matsumi_INV](https://projects.dii.unipd.it/beli24/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Matsumi_INV.jpg)
Noriyoshi Matsumi
(JAIST)
Polymer Binder Materials with High Density Functional Groups for Sodium Ion Secondary Batteries
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Robert J. Messinger
(The City College of New York)
Elucidating Electrochemical Reaction Mechanisms in Emerging Battery Chemistries by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy
![Mitlin_INV](https://projects.dii.unipd.it/beli24/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Mitlin_INV.jpg)
David Mitlin
(University of Texas at Austin)
Mechanical Milling – induced Microstructure Changes in Argyrodite LPSCl Solid-State Electrolyte Critically Affect Electrochemical Stability
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Jagjit Nanda
(SLAC National Laboratory)
Recent Progress and Challenges in Sulfide and Halide Based Electrolytes for All Solid-State Batteries
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Simona Onori
(Stanford University)
Second-life Batteries: Towards a BMS2 Design Framework
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M. Rosa Palacin
(ICMAB-CSIC)
Ca2+ and Na+ electrochemical intercalation in Fe[Fe(CN)6]1-y Berlin Green
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Stefano Passerini
(KIT)
Aqueous and Non-aqueous Aluminum Batteries
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Donald Sadoway
(Pure Lithium Corporation)
Brine to Battery: Electrolytic Production of Li-metal Electrodes
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Venkataraman Thangadurai
(University of Calgary)
Garnet-type and Silicate-type Solid Electrolytes for Solid State Metal Batteries
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Michel L. Trudeau
(Concordia University)
Spatially Resolved EELS Analysis of Surface Species on Metallic Lithium for the Development of the Next Generation Batteries
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Claire Villevieille
(LEPMI-CNRS)
Link Between Microstructure and Electrochemical Performance of Solid State Batteries
![Vittadello_INV](https://projects.dii.unipd.it/beli24/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Vittadello_INV.jpg)
Michele Vittadello
(CUNY)
Sodium Ion-Conducting Electrolytes based on Chloroaluminate Ionic Liquids and δ-NaCl
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Wei Wang
(Pacific Northwest National Lab)
Proton Activity and Pathway in Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Battery Electrolyte