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Day 1: Tuesday, 6/5/12 7:30 a.m. - 8:20 a.m. Badging / Continental Breakfast
8:20 a.m. - 8:40 a.m. Dr. Anne Dillon & Dr. Venkat Srinivasan National Renewable Energy Lab & Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Welcome & Introductions
8:40 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. Prof. Paul Alivisatos Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Carbon Cycle 2.0
9:20 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. AM BREAK Electric Vehicle Exhibit (directly outside the Main Lobby, next to the valet station)
Day 1: Tuesday, 6/5/12 Session 1: General Session on Battery Powered Vehicles and Implications on the Grid
Chair: Anne Dillon
9:50 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Dr. Haruyoshi Kumura Nissan Expand EV’s Value - Mobility and Beyond
10:30 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Mr. Thomas Greszler General Motors Li-Air and Li-Sulfur Technology in an Automotive System Context
11:10 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. Prof. Stan Whittingham SUNY Binghamton Beyond Lithium Ion: A Reality Check
11:50 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. LUNCH
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m Dr. Karim Zaghib Hydro-Québec Lithium Metal for Rechargeable Polymer and Metal-Air Batteries: Challenges and Opportunities
Day 1: Tuesday, 6/5/12 Session 2: Li metal
Chair: Gao Liu
1:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. Dr. Jake Christensen Robert Bosch, LLC Requirements for Li-protection in Li/air Cells
1:20 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Prof. Stefano Passerini University of Münster, Germany Ionic Liquid-based Electrolytes for Next Generation Batteries
2:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. Dr. Jordi Cabana Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Protective Layers for the Lithium Electrode based on Ceramic Phases
2:40 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. Dr. Nancy J. Dudney Oak Ridge National Lab Transport and Mechanical Properties of Pure and Composite Solid Lithium-ion Electrolytes.
3:20 p.m - 3:40 p.m. PM BREAK
Day 1: Tuesday, 6/5/12 Session 3: Li/air Experiments
Chair: Winfried Wilcke
3:40 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. Dr. Rouven Scheffler & Dr. Angela Speidel Volkswagen Research Progress in Research on Lithium Oxygen Batteries
4:20 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Dr. Nenad Markovic Argonne National Lab Complexity (simplicity) of Li-air Interfaces
5:00 p.m - 5:40 p.m. Dr. Dong Joon Lee Samsung SAIT A Nonaqueous Li-Air Battery with Protected Anode: Perspectives on Improving Life Cycle
Day 2: Wednesday, 6/6/12 Session 3: Li/air Experiments (continued)
Chair: Winfried Wilcke
8:30 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. Prof. Khalil Amine Argonne National Lab Beyond Lithium-ion Batteries
9:10 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. Prof. Nobuyuki Imanishi Mie University, Japan Air Electrodes for Lithium-Air Batteries with Weak Alkaline Aqueous Electrolyte
9:50 a.m. - 10:10 a.m AM BREAK
Day 2: Wednesday, 6/6/12 Session 4: Li/air Theory
Chair: Donald Siegel
10:10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. Prof. Jens Nørskov Stanford University Surface Electrochemistry and Electron Transport in the Oxygen Electrode of an Aprotic Li-air Battery
10:50 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Dr. Shuye Ping Ong MIT .First-principles Study of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction and Polaronic Hole Transport in the Lithium-air Battery.
11:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Dr. Suhuai Wei National Renewable Energy Lab First-Principles Study of Low Electron Conductivity in Li Peroxide for Li-air Batteries
12:10 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. LUNCH
12:40 p.m. - 1:10 p.m Dr. Aleksandar Kojic Robert Bosch, LLC Overview of Energy-Related Research at the Bosch Research and Technology Center
Day 2: Wednesday, 6/6/12 Session 5: Alternative Chemistries
Chair: Venkat Srinivasan
1:20 p.m. - 2:00 p.m Prof. John Newman UC Berkeley Renewable Fuels
2:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. Prof. Robert Huggins Stanford University A New Class of Aqueous Insertion Reaction Electrodes with Rapid Kinetics and Long Life Cycle
2:40 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. Prof. Jay Whitacre Carnegie Mellon University Aqueous Electrolyte Polyionic Electrochemical Cells for Scaled Stationary Energy Storage
3:20 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Dr. Jun Liu Pacific Northwest National Lab New Nanostructured Electrodes for Li-ion and Li-S batteries with Long Cycle Life
4:00 p.m - 4:30 p.m. BREAK before Poster Session
4:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. POSTER SESSION & RECEPTION (includes heavy appetizers)
Day 3: Thursday, 6/7/12 Session 6: Oxygen Supply to Metal/air Batteries
Chair: Alan Luntz
8:30 a.m. - 8:50 am Dr. Paul Albertus Robert Bosch, LLC Overview of the Gas Handling Requirements for a Li/O2 Battery
8:50 a.m. - 9:30 am Dr. Bryan McCloskey IBM Research Atmospheric Contamination in Non-aqueous Li-air Batteries: Implications from a Membrane Separation Perspective
9:30 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. Dr. Søren Dahl Haldor Topsoe Air Cleaning – Perspectives from Catalytic Processes
10:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. AM BREAK
Day 3: Thursday, 6/7/12 Session 7: Li/S Batteries
Chair: Paul Albertus
10:30 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Prof. Yi Cui Stanford University Nanostructure Design for High Energy Batteries
11:10 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. Prof. Arumugam Manthiram University of Texas, Austin High Energy, High Power Rechargeable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries for Scalable Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems
11:50 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:00 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. Prof. Elton Cairns Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Beyond Lithium Ion: The Lithium/Sulfur Cell
1:40 p.m - 2:20 p.m Prof. Hyo-Jun Ahn Gyeongsang National University The Effect of Electrolytes and Cathodes on the Electrochemical Performance of Lithium/sulfur Batteries
2:20 p.m - 2:40 p.m BREAK before Optional Tours
2:40 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Optional LBNL Lab Tours. For more information click here.
2:40 p.m - 5:30 p.m. Optional Tour of local Alameda Island Wineries. For more information click here.