Register for September 26 seminar presented by Y. Shirley Meng
The ECS Detroit Section invites you to “All Solid-State Battery – A Status Update” presented by Y. Shirley Meng (University of Chicago) on September 26 at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Dr. Meng is Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She serves as the Chief Scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) Argonne National Laboratory.
Pre-registration is required.
Registration deadline: Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Event Information
Title: “All Solid-State Battery – A Status Update”
Date: Thursday, September 26, 2024
Schedule: 1800h Posters & Dinner | 1900h Speaker
Location: Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.
35555 W. 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3139
Fees: Registration includes dinner.
Professionals: USD $20
Student presenters: USD $0
Student non-presenters: USD $10
Pre-registration is required.
Registration deadline: Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Student Posters
A limited number of student posters will be presented. To participate, contact the event organizers at ecs.detroit.rsvp@gmail.com. Every presenter receives one year of free access to Detroit Section events. An award will be presented. Look for more information about the poster session in September.
Abstract
Compared with their liquid-electrolyte analogues, solid state electrolytes SSEs have drawn increased attention as they promote battery safety, exhibit a wide operational temperature window, and improve energy density by enabling Li metal as anode materials for next-generation lithium ion batteries. Despite suitable mechanical properties to prevent Li dendrite penetration, relatively wide electrochemical stability windows, comparable ionic conductivities, and intrinsic safety, most SSEs are found to be thermodynamically unstable against Li metal, where SSE decomposition produces a complex interphase, analogous to the SEI formed in liquid electrolyte systems. An ideal passivation layer should consist of ionically conductive but electronically insulating components to prevent the SSE from being further reduced. The past four decades have witnessed intensive research efforts on the chemistry, structure, and morphology of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) in Li-metal and Li-ion batteries (LIBs) using liquid or polymer electrolytes, since the SEI is considered to predominantly influence the performance, safety and cycle life of batteries. All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) have been promoted as a highly promising energy storage technology due to the prospects of improved safety and a wider operating temperature range compared to their conventional liquid electrolyte-based counterparts. While solid electrolytes with ionic conductivities comparable to liquid electrolytes have been discovered, fabricating solid-state full cells with high areal capacities that can cycle at reasonable current densities remains a principal challenge. Silicon anode offers a possibility to overcome the challenges that lithium metal anode faces. In this talk, we will highlight solutions to these existing challenges and several directions for future work are proposed.
Y. Shirley Meng
Shirley Meng is Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She serves as the Chief Scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Meng is the principal investigator of the research group Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC), established at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2009. She held the Zable Chair Professor in Energy Technologies at UCSD from 2017-2022.
Dr. Meng received the 2024 ACS Research Excellence in Electrochemistry Award, 2023 ECS Battery Division Research Award, 2022 C3E Technology And Innovation Award, 2020 Faraday Medal of Royal Chemistry Society, 2019 International Battery Association IBA Research Award, 2018 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist, 2016 ECS Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award, and 2011 NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Meng is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society, Fellow of the Materials Research Society, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The author and co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters, and eight issued patents, she is Editor-in-Chief for MRS Energy & Sustainability. Dr. Meng received her BS with first class honors in Materials Science from Nanyang Technological University in 2000 and PhD in Advance Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005.
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