Event
MSE Special Seminar: Corsin Battaglia of Swiss Federal Laboratories
Monday, December 5, 2016
11:00 a.m.
IREAP large conference room, ERF 1207
Katie Doyle
301 405 0379
khollan3@umd.edu
https://www.empa.ch/web/s501
"A new class of solid-state electrolytes
with lithium ion conductivities near liquid electrolytes"
Speaker: Corsin Battaglia
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Abstract:
All-solid-state batteries employing solid-state electrolytes promise increased energy density and safety compared to state-of-the-art lithium ion batteries based on liquid electrolytes. However, there is currently no solid-state electrolyte that satisfies all the requirements necessary to fabricate a competitive solid-state battery for the mass market. I will describe our recent advances in the class of borohydrides which reach high lithium ion conductivities up to 8 mS/cm near room temperature, discuss the lithium ion conduction mechanism, and present cell results.
Short Bio:
Corsin Battaglia is heading the laboratory Materials for Energy Conversion at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) since 2014. He received his PhD in physics from the University of Neuchatel in 2008, then joined EPFL as a postdoctoral fellow in 2009, before accepting a joint postdoctoral appointment at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Labs in 2012. His current research interests focus on the synthesis and processing of functional electronic and ion conducting materials, the characterization of their structural, electronic, ionic, and thermal transport properties, as well as their integration and performance assessment in solar cells and batteries. His lab is part of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research and collaborates with several industrial partners in Switzerland.
