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SUMMARY:Chemical Engineering Seminar - Beyond Lithium-Ion: Conversion Elec
 trodes\, Solid State and Aqueous Batteries
DTSTART:20190227T150000
DTEND:20190227T160000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Gleb Yushin\, School of Materials and Engineering\, Ge
 orgia Institute of Technology\, USA\nEnergy density and cost of Li-ion bat
 teries (LIBs) based on conventional intercalation compounds are closely ap
 proaching their limits. The reliance of conventional cathodes on the use o
 f toxic metals additionally endangers health and safety of miners in devel
 oping countries. Conversion-type active materials offer an opportunity to 
 double energy stored in LIBs\, reduce their cost by the same factor\, and 
 improve cell safety. These materials may be produced from safer\, cheaper 
 and globally available resources and contribute to accelerated adoption of
  electric vehicles.  For electrical grid storage and other applications t
 hat demand even lower cost and improved safety\, but do not require high 
 energy density or fast charging\, aqueous batteries based on low-cost raw 
 materials will likely become instrumental. Finally\, solid state batteries
  may offer enhanced safety\, high specific energy and longer cycle stabil
 ity and thus their development may benefit future electric flight and auto
 nomous vehicle technologies. Critically important for the adoption by in
 dustry\, novel materials and battery technologies should serve as drop-in
  replacements and be fully compatible with existing electrode manufacturin
 g and cell assembling techniques. My talk will cover existing challenges\
 , approaches taken by our group and others to address these and fundament
 als of novel electrochemical energy storage chemistries beyond traditional
  Li-ion.\n 
LOCATION:CE 1 6 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CE%201%206
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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