Division/Committee: [ENFL] Division of Energy and Fuels

Due to the demands for carbon neutrality and energy sustainability, developing sustainable batteries as alternatives to commercial Li-ion batteries is critical to minimize the cost, carbon footprint, and energy consumption from battery production and recycling. To this end, low-cost, lightweight, and abundant materials such as organic compounds, polymers, and sulfur offer numerous opportunities for the next generation sustainable battery technologies such as organic batteries, Li-S batteries, and redox flow batteries. In addition to the materials, electrolytes and interphases are also vital for the development of high-performance and sustainable batteries, especially for the applications under extreme conditions such as a wide-temperature range and fast charge/discharge. This symposium will focus on the structure design, performance optimization, and mechanism study of redox-active materials, electrolytes, and interphases in organic batteries, Li-S batteries, and redox flow batteries, aiming to provide insights of sustainable batteries to the chemistry, material science, and chemical engineering communities.

Wei Wei

Wichita State University

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