The Future of Electrochemical Systems - New Architectures and Functional Materials

Join the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy for four virtual workshops on the overarching challenges facing electrochemical systems for use in transportation and grid-level energy storage. The series will bring together academic researchers and industry experts to discuss common problems and brainstorm approaches for overcoming these obstacles across electrochemical systems such as batteries, fuel cells, electrolyzers, and capacitors.
Co-sponsored by the Boston University College of Engineering and the Division of Materials Science & Engineering.
Workshop 4: The Future of Electrochemical Systems - New Architectures and Functional Materials
Future electrochemical systems will need to have higher capacity and power on the device scale than current technologies, combined with wider operating ranges and longer lifecycles, all while using more sustainable and low-cost materials. To reach these goals, novel architectures will be needed from the molecular to the device scale, including the design of organic functional materials and the use of 3D device architectures. The pathways to achieve such advanced architectures require not just compatibilities of the materials found in the device, but also their synthesis and assembly processes. Energy storage in non-traditional architectures and materials will also require a new foundational understanding of the multiscale phenomena that impact and limit their performance, including nanoscale ionic and electronic transport phenomena and electrochemical reactions in confined space. This workshop will discuss promising avenues for advanced energy storage technologies and the challenges that need to be overcome to reach their potential.
Speakers:
Bruce Dunn, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Amy Prieto, Professor, Chemistry, Colorado State University
Topic: Electrodeposition as a Tool to Enable New Architectures and New Energy Storage Chemistries
V. Sara Thoi, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Tailored Porous Materials for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Moderated by Jörg Werner, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Division of Materials Science & Engineering, Boston University