Seminar: Tuesday, April 19th - 1:00 PM

ME 2054

 

Current and Emerging Frontiers in Electrochemical Energy Storage

 

Abstract:

Electrochemical Energy Storage (EES) is the prime enabler for sustainable mobility and smart grid and an integral part of our decarbonization efforts to address the immediate threat to the global climate. The talk will focus on various scientific and technological advances related to next generation battery materials and interfaces including development of solid-electrolytes for all solid-state batteries, sustainable high-capacity cathodes for lithium-ion and mediated electrochemical flow systems for long-duration energy storage. Mechanistic insights based on state-of-the-art advanced operando-characterization of emerging battery materials and interfacial processes linking to battery performance and degradation will be presented. Spe-cific examples related to the development of sulfide and halide based solid-electrolytes and enabling cath-ode architectures for high energy density solid-state batteries. Science-based design approaches for de-veloping high-capacity sustainable lithium and beyond Li-ion battery materials integrated with modelling and multi-scale characterization will be presented. The talk will conclude with a closing discussion on new electrochemical approaches related to carbon-capture, conversion and electrocatalysis.

 

Biography:

Jagjit Nanda is a Distinguished Staff Scientist and Group Leader of the Energy Storage and Conversion Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Chemical Sciences Division with two decades of experience in energy storage and battery materials. He is also a joint faculty professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to joining Oak Ridge in 2009, Jagjit worked as a Technical Specialist at the Research and Advanced Engineering Center, Ford Motor Company, MI leading R&D projects in lithium-ion battery materials and nanomaterials for energy applica-tion. Jagjit received his Ph.D in Solid State Chemistry & Materials Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 2000, followed by Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Stanford University (2000-02) and an Early Career Research Staff (2002-05) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has co-authored more than 200 journal and technical publications in the topic of batteries, solid-state electrolytes & interfaces, nano-materials for energy conversion and is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society.