Limiting Mechanisms: Why Building Better Batteries is Difficult

Batteries are integral to decarbonization. Unlike before, we are pressed for time and have to find feasible batteries for various applications ranging from aircraft to grid storage by 2050. For many promising chemistries, the practical behavior is suboptimal at best. This disparity is due to various mechanisms limiting operation. It has proven difficult to underpin these mechanisms, as a result, building better batteries has been challenging.

At this seminar, we wish to bring together students, postdocs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education, to present their mechanistic investigations and exchange ideas to better rationalize the battery design cycle. We encourage examinations at various scales using different theoretical and/or experimental methods. This includes mechanisms in the broadest sense possibly encompassing structure-property-performance relationships, cell performance, operating conditions, external environment interplay, and investment/deployment decisions.

Participants will be selected based on the submitted abstracts to ensure that we share diverse viewpoints and engage researchers from across the globe.