The outstanding poster award of the 2019 Swiss Battery Days was awarded to Dr. Francesco Pagani, Empa for his poster entitled "Lithium-ion conductivity of epitaxial Li4Ti5O12 vs state of charge".

The outstanding poster award of the 2020/21 Swiss Battery Days was awarded to Dr. Aurora Gomez, MEET for her poster entitled "Towards low-cost and more sustainable Ni-rich NCM-type layered oxide cathodes for lithium-ion batteries".

The outstanding poster award of the 2022 Swiss Battery Days was awarded to Mr. Marcel Heidbüchel, MEET for his poster entitled "Impact of the primary particle morphology on the electrochemical performance of Ni-rich layered oxide cathode materials".

The outstanding poster award of the 2023 Swiss Battery Days was awarded to Mr. Matthias Weiling, Helmholtz Institute Münster, Forschungszentrum Jülich/MEET for his poster entitled "Identification of additive degradiation products in the SEI of Si-containing electrodes via operando ATR-FTIR spectroscopy ".

The outstanding poster award of the 2024 Swiss Battery Days was awarded to Mr. Julian Baumgärtner, Empa/ETH Zürich for his poster entitled "Single-Phase Lithiation in Iron Hydroxy Fluorides with Pyrochlore Structure".

Monday, August 26

12:00   Registration, lunch, and exhibition

13:10   Welcome address
David Reber and Corsin Battaglia
Empa, ETH, EPFL, iBAT

13:20    (Invited) Trends in Lithium Batteries: An American Perspective for the Future
M. Stanley Whittingham
Binghamton University, New York

13:50    Toward the Accelerated Discovery of Electroactive Materials for Li-ion and Na-ion Batteries
Maha Ismail, Iciar Monterrubio, Ainhoa Bustinza, Oier Arcelus, Joseba Orive, Maria Angeles Cabañero, Javier García, Evaristo Castillo, Javier Carrasco, Montse Casas-Cabanas, Marine Reynaud
CIC energiGUNE, Basque Country University, Ikerbasque

14:10   Towards an Autonomous Robotic Battery Materials Research Platform Powered by Automated Workflow and Ontologized FAIR data management
Graham Kimbell, Enea Svaluto-Ferro, Nukorn Plainplan, Benjamin Kunz, Maximilian Becker, David Reber, Ruben-Simon Kühnel, Peter Kraus, Edan Bainglass, Loris Ercole, Francisco F. Ramirez, Giovanni Pizzi, Nicola Marzari, Yuhui Hou, Stefano Di Leone, Andrew Paterson, Dominique Sauter, Emmanouil Tzirakis, Jos de Keijzer, Amira Abou-Hamdan, Michael Schneider, Corsin Battaglia
Empa, PSI, EPFL, ETH, Chemspeed Technologies

14:30    Coffee break and exhibition

14:50    (Invited) What Silicon Can Enable in All-Solid-State Batteries
Y. Shirley Meng
University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois

15:20    Interfacial Stabilization by Prelithiated Trithiocyanuric Acid as an Organic Additive in Sulfide-based All-Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries
Leonie Braks, Jinsong Zhang, Alexander Forster, Patrick W. Fritz, Jihoon Oh, Mario El-Kazzi, Jang Wook Choi, Ali Coskun
Université de Fribourg, PSI, Seoul National University

15:40    Assessment of Critical Stack Pressure and Temperature in Li‐Garnet Batteries
Matthias Klimpel, Huanyu Zhang, Giulia Paggiaro, Romain Dubey, Faruk Okur, Lars P.H. Jeurgens, Kostiantyn V. Kravchyk, Maksym V. Kovalenko
ETH, Empa

16:00    Poster session and apero

19:00    End of day one

Tuesday, August 27

08:30   Coffee and exhibition

09:00   (Invited) Electrolytes, Interfaces, and Interphases
Kang Xu
SES AI Corp., Massachusetts

09:30   Fluorinated Cyclic Ether-based Electrolytes for Stable Electrode/Electrolyte Interphases in Lithium Metal Batteries
Hafiz Ahmad Ishfaq, Carolina Cruz Cardona, Elena Tchernychova, Patrik Johansson, Robert Dominko, Sara Drvarič Talian
Slovenia National Institute of Chemistry, University of Ljubljana, Alistore, Chalmers University of Technology

09:50   Understanding the Role of Zn²⁺ Solvation Environment in Enabling Efficient Cycling of Zn Metal Anodes
Dario Gomez Vazquez, Travis P. Pollard, Julian Mars, Jimun Yoo, Hans-Georg Steinrück, Sharon E. Bone, Olga V. Safonova, Michael F. Toney, Oleg Borodin, Maria R. Lukatskaya
ETH, US Army Research Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder, Universität Paderborn, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, PSI

10:10   Coffee and exhibition

10:30   (Invited) Design of Layered Electrode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries by Doping and Solvent Co-Intercalation
Philipp Adelhelm
Humboldt Universität Berlin, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin

11:00   Quantifying the O-redox Contribution to the Charge Compensation Mechanism in Na_0.67Mn_0.62Fe_0.19Al_0.1O₂ - Cathode Material for Na-ion Batteries
Dominika Baster, Thorsten Schmitt, Adam H. Clark, Teguh C. Asmara, Yuan Wei, Zheng Tao, Juliana B. Falqueto, Mario El Kazzi
PSI 

11:20    Sidorenkite-type Cathodes Na₃Fe(XO₄)(CO₃) (X = P, Si) for High Energy Density Na-ion Batteries
Samuel Franz Gatti, Andrea Testino, Sigita Trabesinger
PSI

11:40    New Electrode Formulation for High-Temperature Na-ZnCl₂ Batteries
Sajad Rahimi, Enea Svaluto-Ferro, Fabrizio Vagliani, Diego Basso, Alberto Turconi, Andrea Pozzi, Corsin Battaglia, Meike Heinz
Empa, Horien, formerly FZSoNick, ETH, EPFL

12:00    Group photo

12:15    Lunch and exhibition

13:30   (Invited) The Development of Redox Flow Batteries with Solid Boosters: The NASTOR Project
Emmanuel Baudrin
Université de Picardie Jules Verne/CNRS

14:00   Design of Naphthalene Diimide for Highly Soluble and Stable Negolyte in Organic Redox Flow Batteries
Hye Ryung Byon
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

14:20   Exploring the Surface Chemistry and Electrochemical Performance of Plasma-Treated Carbon Felts for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries
Sayed Ali Ahmad Alem, Yining Huang, Dominik Wickenhauser, Bernhard Marius, Darlin Bregu, Christine Bandl, Stefan Spirk, Wolfgang Kern
Montanuniversität Leoben, Ecolyte, TU Graz

14:40    Coffee and exhibition

15:00  (Invited) Current understanding of solid electrolyte interphase evolution on metal anodes in contact with liquid battery electrolytes
Jelena Popovic-Neuber
University of Stavanger

15:30   Diagnosing the Mechanism for Zn Dendrite Growth and Suppression via in situ Liquid Cell TEM
Yi Yuan, Shengda D. Pu, Miguel A. Pérez-Osorio, Zixuan Li, Shengming Zhang, Sixie Yang, Boyang Liu, Chen Gong, Ashok S. Menon, Louis F. J. Piper, Xiangwen Gao, Peter G. Bruce, Alex W. Robertson
University of Oxford, University of Warwick, Global Institute of Future Technology

15:50   Kinetically Induced Memory Effect in Li-ion Batteries
Pierfrancesco Ombrini, Qidi Wang, Alexandros Vasileiadis, Fangting Wu, Ziyao Gao, Xia Hu, Martijn van Hulzen, Baohua Li, Chenglong Zhao, Marnix Wagemaker
TU Delft, Tsinghua University

16:10    End of day two

18:00    Conference dinner

 Wednesday, August 28

08:30    Coffee and exhibition

09:00    Welcome address industry day
David Reber
Empa

09:05    (Invited) Activation Durability of Carbon Electrodes for Vanadium Flow Batteries
Alasdair Robertson
Invinity Energy Systems

09:30    (Invited) Advances in Low-Cost Manufacturing of Flow Batteries: Innovations in Materials and Engineering for Iron-Chromium Flow Batteries
Tom Gebauer
Redox One

09:55    (Invited) Iron Salt Battery: Challenges and Advances
John Alper
VoltStorage

10:20    Coffee and exhibition

10:50    (Invited) Sodium Vanadium Fluorophosphates and Hard Carbon (tbd)
Mathieu Morcrette
Tiamat

11:15    (Invited) Perspectives on Commercial Sodium-Ion Batteries
Minglong He
ABB

11:40    (Invited) Industry Perspective on Innovations in Battery Technologies: Sodium-Ion, Solid-State and Flow Batteries
Kenya Shatani
European Battery Alliance (EBA250)

12:05    Poster award

12:20    Lunch and exhibition

13:30    Welcome address iBAT
Corsin Battaglia
Empa, ETH, EPFL, iBAT

13:40   (Invited) GEN4 Solid-State EV Battery
Richard Bouveret
Blue Solutions

14:10    Thin-Film Solid-State Batteries
Moritz Futscher
BTRY

14:30    Ultra High Power Energy Storage: A Key Enabler for Efficient and Sustainable Electronics
Clara Moldovan
Swistor

14:50    Coffee and exhibition

15:20    Multilayer Curtain Coating for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Paul Baade
8inks

15:40    Redox-Flow Systems Based on Liquid-Liquid Interfaces
David Taylor
Unbound Potential

16:00    Closing remarks and end of conference

Abstract submission for the 6^th edition of the Swiss Battery Days will open on May 1 2024. Abstract submission is not mandatory for attending the event, but we encourage in particular PhD students and postdocs to submit abstracts on their recent work. We accept abstracts on the following topics:

• Synthesis and characterization of battery materials
• Integration of battery materials in electrodes and cells
• Topics related to battery cell manufacturing

Only abstracts adhering strictly to the abstract template will be accepted. The abstract template can be downloaded here. Please submit your abstract to .

Abstract submission is closing on June 30 2024. Notification of abstract acceptance on July 19 2024. Abstracts for oral and poster presentations will be selected by the scientific committee.