Symposium Sessions

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Li-ion batteries have revolutionized the portable electronics industry but may not be able to satisfy the rising demands on high safety and high energy density. Beyond Li-ion battery chemistry, such as alkali-metal batteries and solid-state batteries are promising candidates for next-generation high energy battery systems. In these systems, metal sulfides are important materials (electrolytes or electrodes) to realize high performance batteries. For examples, sulfide solid electrolytes (i.e. Li₇P₃S₁₁, Li₁₀GP₂S₁₂) show the impressively high ionic conductivity above 10 mS cm^-1 at room temperature; metal sulfide cathodes (i.e. FeS₂) exhibit outstanding specific capacity in assembled batteries. So far, there have been extensive research efforts devoted on sulfide-based electrolytes or transition metal sulfide electrodes. This symposium will provide updates on the state-of-the-art research on metal sulfides on new materials chemistry, synthesis methods, interface studies, characterizations, manufacturing, device demonstration, bringing together numerous scientist and engineers across multi-disciplines from national and international.

Topics will include:

• Novel sulfide-based solid electrolytes (SE) design and synthesis
• Theoretical simulations (DFT, MD) on new materials design, and ion diffusion dynamics
• Interface studies and stabilization between SE with alkali metal anode or cathode materials
• Advanced manufacturing and processing for electrodes and electrolytes (i.e. sheet-type)
• Operando characterizations (TEM, Raman, XPS, etc)
• Dendrite formation and suppression in the metal sulfide solid state batteries
• Electrochemomechanics of sulfide solid-state batteries
• Metal sulfide electrodes in batteries
• Metal-sulfur batteries with high performance

Invited Speakers:

• Karsten Albe (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
• Gerbrand Ceder (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• Hailong Chen (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Olivier Delaire (Duke University, USA)
• Brian Francisco (Solid Power LLC, USA)
• Akitoshi Hayashi (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
• Dongmin Im (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Republic of Korea)
• M. Saiful Islam (University of Bath, United Kingdom)
• Jürgen Janek (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany)
• Ryoji Kanno (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Jim Yang Lee (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
• Hong Li (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Jun Liu (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
• Bettina V. Lotsch (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany)
• Xiong Wen (David) Lou (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Jun Lu (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
• Arumugam Manthiram (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• Y. Shirley Meng (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• Yifei Mo (University of Maryland, USA)
• Linda F. Nazar (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• Shyue Ping Ong (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• Yue Qi (Brown University, USA)
• Xueliang (Andy) Sun (Western University, Canada)
• Chunsheng Wang (University of Maryland, USA)
• Donghai Wang (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Martin Wilkening (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
• Qiang Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)

Symposium Organizers