Invited Speakers

Plenary Speaker

Stanley Whittingham

To be announced

Keynote Speakers

Michel Armand
(CIC Energigune)

Beyond Lithium: What Can Be Made Solid-state?

Peter Bruce
(University of Oxford)

The Rechargeable Lithium-oxygen Battery – the Cathode Challenge

Xuning Feng
(Tsinghua University)

Fundamentals of Li-Battery Thermal Failure

Juergen Garche
(Ulm University)

The Li Battery, the Controlled Bomb

Steve Greenbaum
(Hunter College of CUNY)

Recent NMR Investigations of Novel Electrolytes for BeLI

Xin Guo
(Huazhong University)

Pathways towards High-Performance Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries

Stephen Paddison
(University of Tennessee)

Multivalent Ion Clustering and Transport in Ternary Systems: Copolymer/Ionic Liquid/Salt

Emanuel Peled
(Tel Aviv University)

Lithium and Sodium Metal Batteries

Jean-Yves Sanchez
(LEPMI-Grenoble INP)

From Polymer Electrolytes to Calcium-conducting Ionomers: a Route Towards Reversible Calcium Batteries?

Shi-Gang Sun
(Xiamen University)

Studies of Lithium-Oxygen Battery Systems

Yang-Kook Sun
(Hanyang University)

Tailoring Microstructure and Surface of Ni-Rich Cathodes for High-Performance Electric Vehicle Batteries

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

Tom Zawodzinski
(University of Tennessee)

Way Beyond Lithium: ‘Open’ Battery Concepts

Invited Speakers

Philipp Adelhelm
(Humboldt-University Berlin)

Tuning the Properties of Inorganic Anodes and Cathodes for Na-ion Batteries

Corsin Battaglia
(Empa)

Stable Hydroborate Solid-State Lithium Battery with High-Voltage NMC811 Cathode

Maria Helena Braga
(University of Porto)

Advancing Battery Technology: Harnessing Oscillatory Dynamics in Ferroelectric Topological Insulator Electrolytes

Zheng Chen
(UC San Diego)

Direct Recycling of Lithium-ion Batteries: Challenges and Opportunities

Guanglei Cui
(Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Thermal Runaway Mechanism of High Energy Density Lithium Ion Batteries

Shanmukaraj Devaraj
(CIC Energigune)

Sustainable Polysalt and Its Multifunctional Role in Li/Na Metal Solid-state Polymer Batteries

Maximilian Fichtner
(Helmholtz-Institute Ulm)

Recent Results and Progress with Multivalent Batteries

Betar Gallant
(MIT)

Interplays of Composition and Function at the Interphases of Lithium Metal Anodes

Birger Horstmann
(Helmholtz-Institute Ulm)

Effect of SEI on Dissolution and Growth of Lithium Whiskers

Masashi Ishikawa
(Kansai University)

Rechargeable Battery with S-confined Porous C Cathode and Li Metal Anode

Christopher Johnson
(Argonne National Laboratory)

Advanced Electrode Materials and Electrolytes for Sodium-ion Batteries

Haegyeom Kim
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Materials Development and Their Integration for High Energy and Long Cycle Life Solid-State Li Metal Batteries

Pawel Kulesza
(University of Warsaw)

Optimization and Evaluation of Utility of Highly Concentrated Iodine/Iodide Electrolytes for Redox Flow Batteries

Yuzhang Li
(UC Los Angeles)

New cryo-EM Tools for Studying Dynamic Interfaces in Battery Materials

Gao Liu
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

The Application of Conductive Polymers in Beyond Lithium-ion Batteries

Ping Liu
(UC San Diego)

Faceted Lithium Crystal Seeds: Formation and Function

Robert Mantz
(OSD(R&E))

Rewewable Energy Generation and Storage Technologies

Noriyoshi Matsumi
(JAIST)

Polymer Binder Materials with High Density Functional Groups for Sodium Ion Secondary Batteries

Robert J. Messinger
(The City College of New York)

Elucidating Electrochemical Reaction Mechanisms in Emerging Battery Chemistries by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

David Mitlin
(University of Texas at Austin)

Mechanical Milling – induced Microstructure Changes in Argyrodite LPSCl Solid-State Electrolyte Critically Affect Electrochemical Stability

Jagjit Nanda
(SLAC National Laboratory)

Recent Progress and Challenges in Sulfide and Halide Based Electrolytes for All Solid-State Batteries

Simona Onori
(Stanford University)

Second-life Batteries: Towards a BMS2 Design Framework

M. Rosa Palacin
(ICMAB-CSIC)

Ca2+ and Na+ electrochemical intercalation in Fe[Fe(CN)6]1-y Berlin Green

Stefano Passerini
(KIT)

Aqueous and Non-aqueous Aluminum Batteries

Donald Sadoway
(Pure Lithium Corporation)

Brine to Battery: Electrolytic Production of Li-metal Electrodes

Venkataraman Thangadurai
(University of Calgary)

Garnet-type and Silicate-type Solid Electrolytes for Solid State Metal Batteries

Michel L. Trudeau
(Concordia University)

Spatially Resolved EELS Analysis of Surface Species on Metallic Lithium for the Development of the Next Generation Batteries

Claire Villevieille
(LEPMI-CNRS)

Link Between Microstructure and Electrochemical Performance of Solid State Batteries

Michele Vittadello
(CUNY)

Sodium Ion-Conducting Electrolytes based on Chloroaluminate Ionic Liquids and δ-NaCl

Wei Wang
(Pacific Northwest National Lab)

Proton Activity and Pathway in Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Battery Electrolyte