Building Better Batteries: Materials, Interfaces and Devices

The Gordon Research Seminar on Batteries is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

Advancing electrochemical energy storage presents numerous challenges. Battery systems involve complex interactions between many different states of matter; high energy density and cycle life demand that materials operate at the edge of stability for hundreds to thousands of cycles over many years; and the chemical and physical processes involved span multiple length and time scales.

The 2016 seminar will bring together a diverse group of young researchers from across disciplines to discuss new approaches to address these challenges. We anticipate this seminar will be highly interactive and provide ample opportunity to network and socialize with peers. Participants should leave with a fresh perspective on their own work and better prepared to participate more fully in the associated Gordon Research Conference. Topics include (but are not limited to): new energy storage materials and systems; theory, modeling, and simulation; and advanced characterization techniques. Any battery chemistry is eligible, including lithium-ion, lithium-air, lithium-sulfur, magnesium- and sodium-based chemistries, and redox flow batteries.