Agenda

Day 1 – July 23, 2024

7:00 AM

Registration Opens

7:30 AM

Breakfast

8:00 AM

Welcome (10 mins)

8:10 AM

Executive Welcome

Cynthia Jenks, ALD/ORNL

Keynote (Chair: Wu Xu)

8:30 AM

All Solid-State Battery – A Status Update

Shirley Meng, U Chicago/ANL

Session I: Solid-State Electrolytes and Batteries (Chair: Xia Cao and Guang Yang)

9:10 AM

Multifunctional Coatings on Sulfide Solid Electrolyte Powders for Enhanced Processability and Performance

Justin Connell, ANL

9:35 AM

Synthesis and electrochemical study of ceramic-polymer nanocomposite solid electrolytes

Yuepeng Zhang, ANL

10:00 AM

Break (20 mins)

10:20 AM

Beyond Lithium and Towards Sodium: Thin-Film Glassy Solid Electrolytes as a New Functionality for Glass Enabling High Energy Density Na All Solid State Batteries

Steve Martin, ISU

10:45 AM

Conductivity and Processability of Polymer Electrolyte

Jianlin Li, ANL

Session II: Electrons to Chemicals (Chair: Robert Sacci)

11:10 AM

Advanced Materials for Energy: from nanomaterials to superstructured materials

Yun Hang Hu, Michigan Tech U

11:35 AM

Unlocking unconventional lithium resources through sustainable electrochemical leaching

Feifei Shi, Penn State

    12:00 PM    Working Lunch and Discussion, Sponsored by BioLogic (1 hour)

Session III: Metal-Air Batteries (Chair: James Wu and Wu Xu)

1:00 PM

Advanced Batteries to Decarbonize Heavy Transport

Mohammad Asadi, IIT

1:25 PM

Rechargeable Al-CO2 battery enabled by a homogeneous redox mediator

Shuya Wei, UNM

1:50 PM

High Mass Loading Positive Electrodes for Li-O2 Batteries

Xianglin Li, WU St. Louis

2:15 PM

High-Performance Aluminum-Air Flow Batteries through Laser-Modified and Friction-stir Processed 3D Anode and High Effective Catalysis

Anming Hu, UTK

      2:40 PM    Break (20 mins)

Session IV: Sulfur and Other Conversion Batteries (Chair: Guang Yang and Wei Tong)

3:00 PM

New Insights on Reaction Pathways for FeS2 Cathodes

Bruce Dunn, UCLA

3:25 PM

Metal-sulfur Batteries with Stabilized Electrodes and Interfaces

Arumugam Manthiram, UT Austin

3:50 PM

Graphdiyne-based two-dimensional nanomaterials for next-generation “beyond Li-ion” batteries

Sherry Zheng, SLAC

4:15 PM

Development of Li-S batteries based on sulfurized polyacrylonitriles (SPAN)

Ping Liu, UCSD

      4:40 PM    Panel Discussion: (Chair: Robert Sacci)

      5:10 PM    Adjourn Day 1

Day 2 – July 24, 2024

7:00 AM

Registration Opens

7:30 AM

Breakfast

Keynote (Chair: Robert Sacci)

8:00 AM

TBD

Linda Nazar, U Waterloo

Session V: Multivalent and Organic Batteries (Chair: Wu Xu)

8:40 AM

Design Organic Electrode Materials for All-Solid-State Batteries

Yan Yao, U Houston

9:05 AM

Multivalent Battery is Not a Sprint, It is a Relay

John Muldoon, Toyota

9:30 AM

Organic Electrode Materials for Affordable and Sustainable Na-ion and K-ion Batteries

Chao Luo, George Mason/U Miami

9:55 AM

Break (20 mins)

Session VI: Sodium and Potassium Batteries (Chair: Xia Cao and Mengya Li)

10:15 AM

Protonation stimulates the layered to rock salt phase transition of Ni-rich sodium cathodes

Xiaolin Li, PNNL

10:40 AM

Potassium-ion batteries: progress and outlook

Mauro Pasta, U Oxford

11:05 AM

Advancing the 3.7 V K-Ion Battery: From Coin Cells and Pouch Cells to 18650s

Leigang Xue, Group1

11:30 AM

Increasing the voltage for sodium cathode through copper and oxygen redox

Enyuan Hu, BNL

11:55 AM

Working Lunch and Discussion: Sponsored by Group1  (1 hour)

Session VII: Long Duration Batteries (Chair: Lei Cheng and Guang Yang)

1:00 PM

Low-Cost, Earth-Abundant Catholytes for Redox Flow Batteries

Ethan Self, ORNL

1:25 PM

TBD

Russ Weed, Clean Tech Strategies

1:50 PM

Zinc Batteries for Stationary Storage

Tim Lambert, SNL

2:15 PM

TBD

2:40 PM

Break (20 mins)

Session VIII: Second Use and Recycling (Chair: TBD)

3:00 PM

Eco-Friendly and Energy-Efficient: The Role of Direct Recycling in Promoting Sustainability

Chao Yan, Princeton NuEnergy

3:25 PM

Direct Recycling of Lithium-Ion Battery Electrode Scraps

Yaocai Bai, ORNL

3:50 PM

TBD

Zheng Li, Li Industries & Virginia Tech

4:15 PM

TBD

       4:40 PM    Panel Discussion (Chair: TBD)

5:10 PM

Break (50 mins)

6:00 PM

Poster Session and Reception Sponsored by Group1

       8:00 PM    Adjourn Day 2

Day 3 – July 25, 2024

7:30 AM

Registration Opens

8:00 AM

Breakfast

Keynote (Chair: Lei Cheng)

8:30 AM

TBD

Valentino Cooper, ORNL

Session IX: “Data-Driven” Discovery of Battery Materials (Chair: Max Giammona and Young-Hye Na)

9:10 AM

Accelerating materials discovery for energy storage by AI and robotics-powered laboratories

Yan Zeng, FSU

9:35 AM

Discovery and Optimization of Battery Materials in the Era of Foundation Models

Vidushi Sharma, IBM

10:00 AM

Break (25 mins)

10:25 AM

TBD

Maria Chan, ANL

10:50 AM

Materials Informatics for Designing Optimal Electrolytes for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Nav Nidhi Rajput, Stony Brook University

    11:15 AM    Panel Discussion (Chair: Young-Hye Na)

11:50 AM

Working Lunch and Discussion: How do we incorporate ML/AI into our research? (1 hour)

ORNL Tour Preparation

1:15 PM

Everyone on board the bus

1:40 PM

Pick up badges

2:00-4:00 PM ORNL tours

Group 1

Battery Manufacturing and Neutron Facilities Tours

After the tour, transportation is provided back to the Hotel.