Awards
The Outstanding Poster Award of the 2nd Swiss & Surrounding Battery Days is awarded to Francesco Pagani (Empa) for his poster entitled "Lithium-ion conductivity of epitaxial Li4Ti5O12 vs state of charge". Congratulations!
The scientific committee
2nd Swiss & Surrounding Battery Days
August 26-28 2019
Empa, PSI, and BFH jointly organize the 2nd edition of the Swiss & Surrounding Battery Days taking place on August 26-28 at Empa Academy in Dübendorf. The aim of this event is to provide young Swiss researchers, active in the field of battery materials research and cell manufacturing, a platform to present their results and to connect to renowned battery researchers from the surrounding countries. The event offers a unique opportunity to strengthen and expand the network among and to the Swiss battery community. The scope of the event ranges from the synthesis and characterization of battery materials to their integration into electrodes and cells, including topics related to cell manufacturing. August 28 is reserved for talks concerning the European battery agenda and aspects of industrial cell manufacturing at scale.
Special information event on Wednesday, August 28, 13:30
The BATTERY 2030+ initative, status-quo, next steps, and ways to participate
Thank you all for joining us this year. See you next year at the 3rd Swiss & Surrounding Battery Days!
Venue
Empa Academy, Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf
Important dates
May 6 2019 Registration opening
May 6 2019 Abstract submission opening
June 28 2019 Abstract submission closing
July 19 2019 Notification abstract acceptance
August 18 2019 Registration closing
August 26-28 2019 Swiss & Surrounding Battery Days
Contact
swissbatterydays@empa.ch
Organizing committee
Dr. Corsin Battaglia, Empa
Daniela Isler-Schmid, Empa
Nadine Rieder, Empa
Scientific committee
Dr. Corsin Battaglia, Empa
Dr. Sigita Trabesinger, Paul Scherrer Institute
Dr. Mario El Kazzi, Paul Scherrer Institute
Prof. Axel Fürst, Berner Fachhochschule
International advisory board
Prof. Kristina Edström, Uppsala University
Dr. Dominique Guyomard, CNRS IMN & Université de Nantes
Prof. Stefano Passerini, Helmholtz Institute Ulm & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Prof. Petr Novák, Paul Scherrer Institute & ETH Zurich
Confirmed invited speakers
Prof. Kristina Edström, Uppsala University
Dr. Dominique Guyomard, CNRS IMN & Université de Nantes
Prof. Christian Masquelier, Université de Picardie Jules Verne
Prof. Tejs Vegge, Danemark Technical University
Prof. Patrik Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology
Bo Normark, The European Battery Alliance
Dr. Giulio Ferraresi, Dr. Simone Zürcher, Imerys Graphite & Carbon
Dr. Philipp Stössel, Bühler
Carlo Novarese, Faam Research Center (formerly Lithops)
Venue
The event takes place at Empa Academy on Empa's main campus in Dübendorf. Tram T12 takes you in 30 min directly from Zurich airport to Empa (get off at station Dübendorf Giessen). Tram T12 also brings you to Stettbach train station, from which many S trains will take you in 5 min to Zurich downtown and Zurich mainstation. There is only limited parking available on site and we encourage travelling by public transport.
Empa Akademie
Ueberlandstrasse 129
8600 Dübendorf
Switzerland
(Address for GPS: Eduard-Amstutz-Strasse)
The following hotels are located close to Empa:
Sorell Hotel Sonnental, Dübendorf
Hotel Zwiback, Dübendorf
Harry's Home, Wallisellen
Scientific Program
Monday August 26 afternoon
12:00 Registration opening
13:30 Welcome address
Gian-Luca Bona (Empa director) & Corsin Battaglia (organizing committee)
13:40 (Invited) Crystal chemistry of NASICON-type positive electrodes for Na-ion batteries
Christian Masquelier, Fan Chen, Jean-Noel Chotard, Vadim Kovrugin, Sunkyu Park, Stéphanie Belin, Antonella Iadecola, Long H. B. Nguyen, François Fauth, Dany Carlier, Laurence Croguennec (CNRS, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Université de Bordeaux, RS2E, Alistore-ERI)
14:20 Impact of liquid phase formation on microstructure and conductivity of Li-stabilized Na-β’’-alumina ceramics
Marie-Claude Bay, Meike V. F. Heinz, Renato Figi, Claudia Schreiner, Ulrich F. Vogt, Corsin Battaglia (Empa, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg)
14:40 Towards better stability of cation-disordered manganese based oxyfluoride cathodes
Abdel El Kharbachi, Christian Baur, Marco Siniscalchi, Maximilian Fichtner (Helmholtz Institute Ulm, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
15:00 Coffee break/posters
15:30 (Invited) Accelerated discovery and design of next-generation battery materials
Tejs Vegge (Technical University of Denmark)
16:10 Conductivity and elastic properties of LGPS superionics from NVT and NPT first-principles molecular dynamics
Giuliana Materzanini, Leonid Kahle, Aris Marolongo, Nicola Marzari (EPFL, IBM Research)
16:30 Surface phonons of lithium ion battery active materials
Peter Benedek, Nuri Yazdani, Hungru Chen, Nils Wenzler, Fanni Jurànyi, Martin Mansson, M. Saiful Islam, Vanessa Wood (ETH
Zurich, University of Bath, Paul Scherrer Institut, Royal Technical University KTH Stochholm)
16:50 Apéro/posters
Tuesday August 27 morning
09:00 (Invited) Pure, hybrid and polymerized ionic liquid based electrolytes: from fundamentals to application
Manfred Kerner, Susanne Wilken, Nareerat Plylahan, Damien Monti, Piotr Jankowski, Marcel Treskow, Karolina Matuszek, Alexandre Ponrouch, M. Rosa Palacín, Aleksandar Matic, Johan Scheers, Douglas MacFarlane, Michel Armand, Patrik Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology, ICMAB-CSIC, Alistore-ERI, Warsaw University of Technoloty, Monash University, CIC Energiegune)
09:40 A 2 V class aqueous sodium-ion battery with low-temperature cycling capabilities
David Reber, Ruben-Simon Kühnel, Corsin Battaglia (Empa)
10:00 Sodium metal anodes – the influence of neglected parameters
Rico Rupp, Alexandru Vlad (UC Louvain)
10:20 Coffee break/posters
10:50 Closo-borate electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries
Léo Duchêne, Ryo Asakura, Seyedhosein Payandeh, Ruben-Simon Kühnel, Arndt Remhof, Hans Hagemann, Corsin Battaglia (Empa, University of Geneva)
11:10 Elucidating the performance limitations of graphite as negative electrode in sulfide based solid state batteries
Laura Höltschi, Franziska Jud, Christian Jordy, Claire Villevieille, Mario El Kazzi, Petr Novák (Paul Scherrer Institute, SAFT)
11:30 Assessment of the practical electrochemical stability of lithium thiophosphate solid electrolytes in Li-S cells
Georg Dewald, Saneyuki Ohno, Jürgen Janek, Wolfgang Zeier (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)
11:50 Silicon oxycarbide – tin nanocomposite as a high-performance anode for Li-Ion batteries
Romain J.-C. Dubey, Pradeep Vallachira Warriam Sasikumar, Frank Krumeich, Gurdial Blugan, Kostiantyn V. Kravchyk, Thomas Graule, Maksym V. Kovalenko (ETH Zürich, Empa)
12:10 Lunch/posters
Tuesday August 27 afternoon
13:30 Conference photo
13:40 (Invited) How separators could be functionalized to make batteries better
Ruijun Pan, Zhaohui Wang, Jonas Lindh, Maria Strömme, Leif Nyholm, Kristina Edström (Uppsala University)
14:20 Elucidating the degradation of Ni-rich layered oxide in humid environment
Leiting Zhang, Christoph Bolli, Heino Sommer, Petr Novák, Sigita Trabesinger (Paul Scherrer Institute, BASF)
14:40 Elucidation of the complex (de-)lithiation reactions of SnO2 in all solid-state battery using operando X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Marta Mirolo, Xiaohan Wu, Carlos A. F. Vaz, Petr Novák, Mario El Kazzi (Paul Scherrer Institute)
15:00 Coffee break/posters
15:30 (Invited) Design of organic electrode materials for greener batteries
Alia Jouhara, Sofia Perticarari, Franck Dolhem, Yann Pellegrin, Fabrice Odobel, Nicolas Dupré, Joël Gaubicher, Philippe Poizot, Dominique Guyomard (CNRS, Université de Nantes, Université d Picardie Jules Vernes, RS2E)
16:10 Highly elastic polyrotaxane binders for mechanically stable lithium hosts in lithium metal batteries
Ahmed Elabd, Dong-Joo Yoo, Jang Wook Choi, Ali Coskun (University of Fribourg, Seoul National University)
16:30 Mixed-anion hydroborates: chemical and electrochemical stability
Matteo Brighi, Fabrizio Murgia, Zbignew Lodziana, Radovan Cerny (University of Geneva)
18:00 Banquet
Wednesday August 28
09:00 (Invited) How Europe can become the winner in the battery market
Bo Normark (The European Battery Alliance)
09:40 (Invited) Sustainability of carbon products in Li-ion batteries
Giulio Ferraresi, Simone Zürcher, Flavio Mornaghini (Imerys Graphite & Carbon)
10:10 (Invited) Large-scale production of lithium-ion batteries – continuous processing of electrode slurries
Philipp Stössel, Adrian Spillmann (Bühler)
10:40 Coffee/posters
11:10 3D analysis of the electrode edges
Marcel-David Zwahlen, Axel Fuerst (Bern University of Applied Sciences)
11:40 (Invited) A new European player perspective on Li-ion cell production
Carlo Novarese (Faam Research Center, formerly Lithops)
12:20 Closing remarks
12:30 Lunch/posters
13:30 Special information event
The BATTERY 2030+ initiative, status-quo, next steps and ways to participate
Kristina Edström (Coordinator BATTERY 2030+ initiative), Stefan Fischer (Euresearch)
16:00 End of event