Symposium Series
2023 Symposium Recordings
September 22, 2023
Troy Hayes & Ilenia Battiato
"Thermal Battery Failures and Designing for Safety: Analyses and Case Studies"
"Upscaling and Automation: Pushing the Boundaries of Multiscale Modeling of Thermal Runaway through Symbolic-Numeric Computing"
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June 9, 2023
Abraham Anapolsky & Kurt Kelty
"A rising tide: De-risking LiB manufacturing with informatics"
"Establishing Battery Material Production in the US: Stories from the Front Lines"
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May 26, 2023
Susan Uthayakumar & Lincoln Bleveans
"Deploying Energy Storage at Scale with Prologis"
“Resilient Decarbonization at Stanford: The Many Roles For Energy Storage”
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March 24, 2023
Daniel Kammen & Meagan Mauter
"Innovation in Short and Long-Duration Energy Storage"
"Energy Flexibility Innovations in The Water Sector"
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February 24th, 2023
Yuan Gao & Will Tarpeh
"A Sustainable Lithium Supply to Support the Fast EV Growth"
"Recycling Lithium Batteries: New Processes and Materials"
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2022 Symposium Recordings
December 16 , 2022
Veronica Augustyn & Debra Rolison
"Relevance of Proton-coupled Electrochemical Processes in Metal Oxides for Energy Storage and Conversion"
"Designing Transport into Multifunctional Materials for Energy & Power"
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December 2 , 2022
Christian Masquelier & Jerry Barker
"Crystal chemistry of Phosphate-containing positive electrodes for Na-Ion batteries"
"The Path to the Successful Commercialization of Sodium-Ion Batteries"
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November 11 , 2022
Steven Visco & Erik Herbert
"The Path to Manufacturing of Next Generation Solid-State Battery Technologies"
"The Critical Role of Mechanics at the Li/SSE Interface"
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September 23 , 2022
Austin Sendek & Chris Wolverton
“From Medicine to Materials: Adapting the Drug Discovery Model to the Battery Industry"
"High-Throughput Computation and Data-Driven Methods to Accelerate Discovery of Battery Materials"
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September 9 , 2022
Sanjoy Banerjee & David Ji
“Rechargeable Aqueous Zinc Batteries for the Clean Energy Transition"
"Aqueoous Anion Battery Chemistry"
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August 26 , 2022
Michael Marshak & Fikile Brushett
“Redox Flow Batteries: Mapping and Emerging Design Space"
"Redox Flow Batteries: Design and Electrochemical Performance of Chelated Metal Complexes for Grid-Scale Energy Storage"
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August 12 , 2022
Joerg Petrasch & Asegun Henry
“The Magnesium Manganese Oxide Redox System for High Temperature Industrial Heat and Grid Scale Energy Storage”
"Thermal Batteries Concept, Economics and Progress to Date"
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June 10, 2022
Alberto Salleo and Kevin Wujcik
“Conjugated polymers for the circular economy of energy storage”
"How Blue Current is building completely dry solid-state batteries with silicon anodes
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May 27, 2022
Chao-Yang Wang and Mujeeb Ijaz
"Ultra-fast Charging of Energy-dense Batteries for Sustainable Electrification" &
"Reimagining the Battery –Range. Safety. Sustainability"
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May 20, 2022
Johanna Nelson Weker and Yijin Liu
“X-ray characterization of battery degradation” &
"A Macro-to-Nano Zoom through the hierarchy of A Lithium Ion Battery"
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April 29, 2022
Wolfgang Zeier and Kimberly See
"Using solid state chemical concepts to tailor and understand ionic transport in solids" &
"Anion redox mechanisms in alkali-rich metal sulfides"
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March 11, 2022
Simona Onori and Dirk Uwe Sauer
"Fifty shades of Advanced Battery Management Systems" &
"Machine Learning and Physico-Chemical Models of Lithium-Ion Batteries - How the two methods can optimally complement each other for battery diagnostics and modelling"
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February 25, 2022
Rahul Jain and Sagar Mitra
"Overview of Indian energy storage ecosystem" &
"Technologies and R&D at in India / IIT Bombay"
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February 11, 2022
Jessika Trancik and Nicolo` Campagnol
"Energy Storage For Deep Decarbonization" &
"NMC vs LFP: How Chemistry, Technology, Markets and Politics Shape The Future"
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January 28, 2022
Richard Wang, Herman Wiegman, and Omer Bar-Yohay
"Cuberg's Path Towards Developing Batteries for Electric Aviation" &
"BETA: Just Simple Enough to Be Revolutionary"
"The Eviation Alice: The World's First All-Electric Commuter Aircraft"
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2021 Recordings
November 19, 2021
Kerstin Schierle-Arndt & Emma Nehrenheim
"Battery recycling: closing the loop in e-mobility" &
"In-house closed loop recycling on Lithium Ion batteries"
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November 5, 2021
Ravi Prasher, Adrienne Little and Brock Forrest
"Dynamic and Tunable Thermal Storage"
& "Science-to-Systems Approach to Wide Scale Deployment of Thermal Energy Storage"
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October 8, 2021
Ju Li, MIT & Ji-Guang (Jason) Zhang, PNNL
"Li-metal Engine: Chemomechanics of 3D Solid-state Anodes"
& "Lithium Metal Anodes with Nonaqueous Electrolytes"
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September 24, 2021
Dan Reicher, Stanford University
"Hydropower and Pumped Storage: Climate Solution and Conservation Challege"
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September 10, 2021
EJ Baik, Stanford University
"Synergies and Competition Between Long and Short Term Storage in Zero Emission Grids"
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August 27, 2021
Profs. Regan Zane & Shanhui Fan
"Wireless Charging"
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July 30, 2021
Tim Holme, QuantumScape
"Lithium-Free Lithium-Metal Anode Batteries at QuantumScape"
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June 18, 2021
Profs. Hubert Gasteiger and Yang-Kook Sun
"High Energy Density Cathodes for Lithium-ion Batteries"
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June 4, 2021
Frank Blome, VW
"EV Batteries: Challenges for the Mass Market"
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May 21. 2021
Dian Grueneich, Alexi Miller and Grace Relf
"Storage in Buildings - What, Why, and How"
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May 7, 2021
Jennifer Rupp and Elsa Olivetti
"Solid-state Batteries: Materials & Scale-up"
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April 23, 2021
Chunsheng Wang & Yi-Chun Lu
"Novel Aqueous and Non-aqueous Chemistries for Energy Storage"
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April 9, 2021
Steven Chu and Paul Albertus
"Thermal Storage"
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March 12, 2021
Jef Caers, Sibyl Diver, Alexis Georgeson, Paul-Miki Akpablie, & Peter Kukielski
"StorageX, X=Batteries: Moving Forward Together"
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February 25, 2021
Hong Li and Kisuk Kang
"Solid batteries towards practical application" &
"New battery chemistry from conventional layered cathode materials for advanced lithium-ion batteires"
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February 12,2021
Simon Moores and Adam Panayi
"StorageX, StorageX, X=Supply Chain"
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January 29, 2021
Marco Ferrara, Andrea Pedretti, and Jörg Heinemann
"Carbon-free Electricity, Ultra-durable Energy Storage"
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Jan 14, 2021
Yang Shao-Horn
"Rechargeable Li Batteries"
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2020 Symposium Recordings
December 4, 2020
Michael Aziz & George Crabtree
"StorageX, X=Longer Duration Storage"
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November 13, 2020
Eric Wachsman & Zhenan Bao
"A solid tranformation of energy storage" &
"Molecular design for electrolyte solvents and artificial SEI for stable lithium-metal anodes"
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October 30, 2020
Robert Laughlin & Anthony Ponec
"StorageX, X=Heat"
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October 16, 2020
JB Straubel, Heiko Urtel, Celina Mikolajczak
"StorageX, X=LiB@TWh: Sustainable Supply Chain for Batteries"
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October 2, 2020
Sossina Haile, Tom Jaramillo
"StorageX, X=Fuel"
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September 18, 2020
Kang Sun, Jim Cushing, and Sujeet Kumar
"Si Anodes and Prelithiation for High Energy and Fast Charge Batteries"
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August 21, 2020
Kristina Edström, Saiful Islam
"Long term visions and research needs for studying the batteries of the future" &
"Atomic-Scale Insights into Solid Electrolytes & Lithium-Rich Cathodes"
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August 21, 2020
Kristina Edström, Saiful Islam
"Long term visions and research needs for studying the batteries of the future" &
"Atomic-Scale Insights into Solid Electrolytes & Lithium-Rich Cathodes"
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July 24, 2020
Arumugam Manthiram & Will Chueh
"Oxide Cathode Chemistry for Batteries" & "Desgin Intercalation for High-Valent & Uniform Redox"
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July 17, 2020
Shirley Meng, Martin Winter
"Energy Storage Solutions from -80 C to +100 C" &
"Li Metal: "Enabler" of High Energy Density Batteries or "The Eternal Talent"?
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July 10, 2020
Yet-Ming Chiang, Yi Cui
"Energy Storage from the Macro to Micro Perspective" &
"Nanocale Understandind and Design of Materials and Interphases for Batteries"
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June 26, 2020
Doron Aurbach, Kang Xu
" Frontiers in R&D of High Energy Density Rechargeble Batteries." & "Interphases: what, how and why"
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June 13, 2020
Clare Grey, Gerbrand Ceder
"From NCA to NMC-811: Structure, Dynamics and Degradation" &
"High performance disordered rocksalt cathodes as novel chemistries for Li-ion batteries"
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June 5, 2020
Prof. Nazar, Prof. Janek
"Design "Rules" for Solid State Electrolytes in Solid State Batteries" &
"Solid State Batteries and Their Challenges"
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May 29, 2020
Khalil Amine, Peter Bruce
"Advances in lithium ion and sulfur system" &
"Walking Back to Happiness – O-redox Li battery Cathodes"
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May 21, 2020
M. Stanley Whittingham, Jun Liu
"The Origins of the Lithium Battery and Future Challenges/Opportunities" &
"Pushing the Limit of High Energy Lithium Batteries – Perspective from the Battery500 Consortium"
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