Lithium Battery Chemistry Symposium
Advancements in Lithium-Ion and Beyond
28-29 January 2019 (Room: Marie Curie)
New electric vehicle batteries must increase their performance through improved chemistries while remaining cost competitive with conventional internal combustion engine automobiles. By creating safe and reliable long range batteries through improved
chemistries, automotive electrification goals can be achieved. Lithium Battery Chemistry will unite automotive OEM companies, their supply chain, and academic researchers to discuss technological advances and commercial viability. Presentations will
focus on advances in high-energy lithium-ion chemistry as well as other chemistries, including lithium-metal systems, silicon anodes, NMC cathodes and solid-state technologies.
Final Agenda
Monday, 28 January
8:00 Symposium Registration and Morning Coffee
9:30 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Martin Winter, PhD, Chair, Applied Material Science for Energy Conversion and Storage, MEET Battery, Research Center, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Muenster
9:35 FEATURED PRESENTATION: From Li-Ion to Na-Ion: What to Expect?
Jean-Marie Tarascon, PhD, Professor of Chemistry, Collège de France & Director, French Research Network, Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E)
The development of improved rechargeable batteries represents a major technological challenge for this new century, as batteries constitute the limiting components in the shift from gasoline powered to electric vehicles, while also enabling the use of
more renewable energy on the grid. To minimize the ecological implications associated with their wider use, we must integrate sustainability of battery components into our research endeavors. The challenges to developing batteries with minimal ecological
footprints are enormous. Within this context, departing from Li-ion, our new findings with the sodium ion chemistry which uses novel materials/electrolyte design together with the assembly of 18,650 prototypes will be presented.
10:15 Market Update on Materials Development for High Energy Density Automotive Batteries
Stephane Levasseur, PhD, Senior Director Technology Strategy, Rechargeable Battery Materials, UMICORE
Long EV range, fast charge, low cost, sustainability, safety … the requirements for automotive batteries constantly push materials and cell makers to propose optimized solutions. This presentation takes a detailed look into a range of high energy
active materials, their advantages and drawbacks, and gives an overview of the potential choices for the chemistry combinations that will enter the market in the next years.
10:35 Networking Coffee Break with Poster Viewing
11:05 Universally Applicable Cobalt Grain Boundary Enrichment - Effective Pathway for Low-Cobalt, High-Performance Cathode Materials
Kenan E. Sahin, PhD, President and Founder CAMX Power LLC and TIAX LLC
Suresh Sriramulu, PhD, CTO, CAMX Power
Achieving high performance while reducing the Cobalt content of the cathode is a major challenge facing Li-ion batteries today. We have developed a new class of high-Ni cathode materials - GEMX – which are polycrystalline materials with grain boundaries
enriched with Cobalt. In this presentation, we will highlight the many advantages of enriching the grain boundaries with Cobalt for high-nickel cathodes including high capacity and excellent cycle life while minimizing Cobalt.
11:25 Advanced Coating Technologies to Boost Performance of High-Nickel Cathode Active Materials (CAM's)
Hartman Leube, PhD, Senior Vice President, RCN, New Technologies, BASF
E-mobility applications, with their need for high-energy density cells, require cathode material manufacturers to push the nickel content of CAM’s to higher levels. It is known that because of the higher nickel content cell degradation phenomena,
caused by surface-electrolyte interaction, become more severe. BASF is developing advanced coating technologies for CAM’s, e.g. Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), to meet future customer requirements. Recent progress and status will be presented
and discussed.
11:45 Oxyfluoride-Based Cathode Materials with Disordered Rock Salt Structure
Robert Dominko, PhD, Laboratory Head, Director, National Institute of Chemistry
Oxyfluoride materials with a disordered rock salt structure represent a new class of high energy density cathodes for Li-ion batteries. Lithium diffusion is facilitated with disorder and presence of defects in the structure. Moreover oxyfluorides have
at least doubled theoretical capacity compared to some cathode materials which are currently used in the commercial batteries. Synthesis, structural properties and electrochemical storage mechanism will be discussed in this presentation.
12:05 Recent Developments on High Voltage LNMO Spinel
Jonathan Højberg, PhD, Principal Scientist, Advanced Materials, Haldor Topsoe A/S
This talk presents the LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 high voltage spinel material TBM-129 developed by Haldor Topsoe A/S to have good powder properties, high tap density and low degradation. Batteries based on LNMO have high energy density and are significantly cheaper
compared to cells with high-nickel tri-metal cathode materials like NCA and NMC811.
12:30 Networking Lunch
13:55 Chairperson’s Remarks
Martin Winter, PhD, Chair, Applied Material Science for Energy Conversion and Storage, MEET Battery, Research Center, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Muenster
14:00 Talk Title to be Announced
Jürgen Janek, PhD, Professor, Director, Center of Materials Research, Justus-Liebig University & BELLA, Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
14:20 New Approaches to Cathode Manufacturing to Meet Emerging Environmental Restrictions
Stu Hellring, PhD, Associate Fellow, Mobility, PPG Industries
NMP faces mounting global regulatory pressure, and recently issued EU directives could effectively eliminate NMP usage by 2021. Novel solutions are needed to manufacture cathodes without NMP. PPG is actively engaged in developing innovative solutions
that address eco-friendly battery manufacturing as well as providing other performance improvements in energy storage.
14:40 Q&A
15:15 Refreshment Break with Poster Viewing
15:50 Chairperson’s Remarks
Jürgen Janek, PhD, Professor, Director, Center of Materials Research, Justus-Liebig University & BELLA, Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
15:55 Lithium Metal for Secondary Batteries
Ulrich Wietelmann, PhD, Manager, Research and Development, Albemarle
The growing requirements for increased energy densities in batteries call for novel high-performance electrode materials. On the anode side, lithium metal is regarded to be the ultimate choice, especially for future all-solid-state designs. The talk summarizes
the challenges and requirements from the perspective of a lithium metal and –anode producer.
16:15 Engineering Lithium Metal to Enable Long-Term Cycling with Carbonate-Based Electrolytes
Dee Strand, PhD, CSO, Chemistry, Wildcat Discovery Technologies
Wildcat Discovery Technologies has developed both in situ and ex situ surface passivation methods for lithium metal to significantly boost the cycling performance of lithium metal batteries. We will show investigation
of passivation materials in combination with a variety of electrolyte compositions. As a result, we demonstrate several protection layers for the lithium anode surface that show significant improvements in cycling, even at 0.9 mA/cm2 charging current.
16:35 From Liquid to Solid: High Conductivity Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries
Andreas Hintennach, PhD, Professor, Research HV Battery Systems, Daimler AG
Novel and sustainable electroactive materials can help to decrease the ecological impact of novel battery concepts soon. While on the one hand, high energy density is required, the aspects of safety, lifetime get more important and often mean a challenge.
All these requirements are met by very different approaches with different characteristics: all solid-state cells, high-energy materials, lithium-sulfur and even different systems, e.g. Na- or Mg-Ion.
16:55 Q&A
17:10 Welcome Reception with Poster Viewing
18:15 Dinner Tutorial Check-In*
20:30 Close of Day
Tuesday, 29 January
7:30 Symposium Registration and Morning Coffee
8:30 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Martin Winter, PhD, Chair, Applied Material Science for Energy Conversion and Storage, MEET Battery, Research Center, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Muenster
8:35 Solid State Battery Development
Ryoji Kanno, PhD, Professor, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology
All-solid-state is an ideal form of batteries. The all-solid-state batteries offer an attractive option owing to their potential in improving the safety and achieving both high power and high energy densities. However, the solid electrolyte was a
key issue for the development of all-solid-state batteries. Among the electrolytes proposed, the sulphide system is a candidate because of its high ionic conductivity. The electrolytes with LGPS (Li10GeP2S12) family found in 2011 exhibit high
conductivity of over 10-2 S cm-1 at room temperature and are promising for applications requiring batteries with high power and energy densities. The present study reviews the developments of the lithium solid electrolytes and the all-solid-state
battery.
9:15 Toward Room-Temperature Lithium Metal Batteries
Margaud Lécuyer, PhD, Electrochemistry Engineer, Innovation and Production Monitoring, Blue Solutions
BlueSolutions commercializes lithium metal polymer batteries and implements its packs in electric vehicles and in stationary applications. Today, one of the main drawback of this technology remains its high operating temperature. During this talk,
impacts of salt and solvent choice on low temperature cyclability and lithium deposits density will be depicted. It will also be highlighted how these formulations have been converted into a gelified full lithium metal battery.
9:35 Solid State Polymer with Room Temperature Conductivity—Higher Performing Solution
Mike Zimmerman, Founder, Ionic Materials
In this session, attendees will learn about a new polymer material that enables safe solid-state batteries that are operational at room temperature and compatible with a handful of widely desired, next-generation battery chemistries, including safe
lithium ion, lithium metal, rechargeable alkaline and more. The presentation will provide inside access to data and use cases for polymer electrolyte battery solutions.
9:55 Glass Ceramics as Solid Electrolytes. A Chance for An Industrial Solution
Andreas Roters, PhD, Senior Project Manager New Venture, Research and Development, SCHOTT AG
Solid state batteries gain increasing interest to overcome limitations of existing Lithium ion batteries in safety and energy density. As solid electrolytes, oxidic ceramic electrolytes like LLZO and LATP are well established and analyzed, but a promising
solution for a high energy SSB is still missing. Glass ceramic materials offer the chance for a broader material variety, since the glassy phase gives an additional degree of freedom to design the material to the needs of an SSB. The long experience
in the industrial production concepts for high precision and high-performance glass ceramics, also for high volume markets, leads the way for the industrialization of glass ceramic solid electrolytes.
10:10 Grand Opening Coffee Break with Exhibit
& Poster Viewing
11:00 Chairperson’s Remarks
Martin Winter, PhD, Chair, Applied Material Science for Energy Conversion and Storage, MEET Battery, Research Center, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Muenster
11:05 Oxide-Based All-Solid-State Li-Batteries - Current Challenges in Fabrication and Operation
Martin Finsterbusch, PhD, Group Leader, Manager, Solid State Batteries, Forschungszentrum Jülich
All-Solid-State Li-Batteries (Li-ASBs) promise to alleviate many issues related to the use of organic liquid electrolytes in conventional Li-ion batteries since they have the potential to simultaneously increase the energy and power density while
offering intrinsic safety and low degradation. However, when scaling up to larger cells sizes, several challenges are currently faced during fabrication and operation when using oxide based ceramic electrolytes and Li metal as anode.
11:25 Bulk All Solid-State Batteries: Recent Developments Towards High Cell Energy and Production Scale-Up
Doug Campbell, CEO, Solid Power, Inc.
All solid-state batteries have emerged as having the highest potential for displacing convention Li-ion batteries. Achieving their high energy potential, however, requires several developments around high capacity anodes, cathodes and solid electrolyte
improvements. Further, these developments must be compatible with highly scalable manufacturing processes enabling large format and high-quality cells for use in future electric vehicles. This talk will cover Solid Power’s recent R&D
and production scale-up developments as well as the Company’s near- to mid-term development plan towards commercialization.
11:45 Solvay´s Last Developments on Electrolyte Ingredients for HV Li-Ion Batteries
Thomas Mathivet, Business Development Manager, Battery Europe, SOLVAY
A leading target of the Li-Ion battery industry is to achieve high energy density at affordable cost without compromising on safety.Solvay has increased its efforts to propose innovative electrolyte ingredients to battery makers, enabling high voltage
solutions.New results with fluorinated additives and Energain® on silicon graphite/lithium anodes will be presented.
12:05 Q&A
12:40 Networking Lunch
13:55 Dessert Break with Exhibit & Poster Viewing
14:40 Chairperson’s Remarks
Dee Strand, PhD, CSO, Chemistry, Wildcat Discovery Technologies
14:45 Advanced Lithium Ion Technologies for Mobility Applications, and Beyond
Patrick Bernard, PhD, Director, Research, SAFT
Saft is developing a new range of Li-ion products reflecting the current market needs (increase of energy density while keeping long life, enhance charging and cycling capabilities, cost reduction while maintaining or improving the safety) : LTO prismatic
cell for heavy cycling applications, phosphate based technology for safety critical applications, NMC/Gr-Si based cells for high energy applications. Beyond Li-ion, Saft is developing Solid State technology with some global key companies.
15:05 Advanced Battery Materials from Unit Operations
Mark Obrovac, PhD, Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Chemistry, Dalhousie University
In this presentation it will be shown how high performance engineered positive and negative electrode particles can be practically made using simple unit operations that are potentially less expensive and produce less waste. In addition, it will
be shown that when used effectively, simple unit operations can enable the practical synthesis of new materials microstructures with materials performance not attainable by methods commonly used today.
15:25Pure Silicon Technology for Automotive Applications - Energy Density, Extreme Fast Charge, and Safety
Benjamin Park, PhD, Founder & CTO, Research & Engineering, Enevate Corporation
The speaker will discuss and show results with a binder-free anode that utilizes silicon as the active material vs a mixture of silicon and graphite. Unique properties of cells made using this technology will be shown including energy density,
extreme fast charge capability, and safety. Information will be shown showing that the technology is a good fit for batteries for electric vehicles.
15:45 Addressing the Key Challenges of Li-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles Thanks to Arkema’s Materials
Grégory Schmidt, PhD, Research & Development Scientist Li-Ion Battery, Arkema
The current development of EV LIB requires an improvement of energy density at affordable cost without compromising on safety. Arkema is developing innovative electrolytes enabling high voltage and long life solutions, binders for electrode and
separator coating to increase capacity and safety, conductive additive to increase power performance and lifetime.
16:05 Q&A
16:25 Networking Reception with Exhibit & Poster Viewing (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)
17:25 Dinner Tutorial Check-In*
20:30 Close of Day
* Separate registration required
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