Symposium Sessions

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Solid-state electrolyte materials have the potential to make batteries safer, more energy-dense, and longer-lasting. While several classes of promising solid electrolyte material classes exist, including ceramics, conductive polymers, and their composites, their integration and assembly into a full device presents unique challenges due to the chemical complexity of the interfaces between the solid materials. Breakthroughs in understanding and controlling the properties of solid-solid interfaces, both during processing and cell operation, developing cell designs enabling high energy density and long-time stability, as well as introducing advanced strategies for their processing and manufacturing are thus crucial to the advancement of next-generation energy storage systems.

This symposium aims at going beyond the properties of individual materials towards the development of full solid-state energy storage devices. It will cover the latest discoveries and progress in (1) understanding the fundamental mechanisms of interfacial reactions (chemical, electrochemical, electrochemomechanical) in solid-state batteries and their evolution both during processing and operation, (2) emerging processing and manufacturing techniques to synthesize and assemble solid materials into cell components and full solid-state cells, and (3) advanced experimental and theoretical methods to probe or predict interfacial reactions upon processing, manufacturing and cell operation. Recent insights into the role of protective coatings, air, moisture, and electrochemical stability of materials and interfaces, and the design of composite materials to improve battery performance will be highlighted from both experiments and simulations.

Papers that focus on solid-state batteries including novel solid-state electrolytes, interface compatibility, processing, and new cell design are encouraged to submit to this symposium. Work that focuses on the fundamental aspects of challenges in metal anodes should be submitted to the symposium ‘Overcoming the Challenges with Metal Anodes for High-energy Batteries.’ Topics focusing on beyond-Li-ion batteries such as Li-S, Li-Air, and multivalent batteries that are not addressing the challenges associated with the solid-state battery should be submitted to the symposium entitled "Beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries - Materials, Architecture and Techniques."

Topics will include:

• Solid-state ionic conductors for Li, Na, and emerging batteries
• Solid electrolyte-electrode interfaces
• Interface protection in solid-state batteries
• New solid-state cell designs
• Processing of solid-state cell components (ceramics, polymers, and composites)
• Interfacial reactions in solid-state batteries: modeling and characterization

Invited Speakers:

• Veronica Augustyn (North Carolina State University, USA)
• Corsin Battaglia (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland)
• Oleg Borodin (U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA)
• Peter Bruce (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
• Joshua Buettner-Garrett (Solid Power, USA)
• Mei Cai (General Motors, USA)
• Gerbrand Ceder (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• Zheng Chen (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• Marca Doeff (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
• Bruce Dunn (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• Yury Gogotsi (Drexel University, USA)
• Keith Gregorczyk (University of Maryland, USA)
• Liangbing Hu (University of Maryland, USA)
• Sylvio Indris (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
• Yasutoshi Iriyama (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Payam Kaghazchi (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)
• Byoungwoo Kang (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
• Kisuk Kang (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
• Ryoji Kanno (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Robert Kostecki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
• Sehee Lee (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
• Hong Li (Institute of Physics, CAS, China)
• Feng Lin (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
• Zhouguang Lu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
• Joachim Maier (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany)
• Y. Shirley Meng (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• Yifei Mo (University of Maryland, USA)
• John Muldoon (Toyota North America, USA)
• Cewen Nan (Tsinghua University, China)
• Linda Nazar (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• Elie-Elisee Paillard (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
• Mary Patterson (Enerdel, USA)
• Jennifer Rupp (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• Jeff Sakamoto (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, USA)
• Yang Shao-Horn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• Esther Takeuchi (Stony Brook University, The State University of New York, USA)
• Anton Van Der Ven (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
• Eric Wang (Samsung Research America, USA)
• Wolfgang Zeier (University of Giessen, Germany)

Symposium Organizers