BatSynch - The Battery Challenge at Synchrotrons

Session

Happy Hour and Poster Session

Nov 29, 2023, 5:50 PM

Kastler Hall (Adriatico Guesthouse, ICTP, Trieste, Italy)

35. 4D imaging of abuse mechanisms in Li-ion Batteries

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

Higher energy density materials are being pushed by the research community to make lithium ion batteries a better competitor of chemical fossil fuels for transport applications. This increases potential risk of lithium ion batteries and therefore safety investigations are highly important for application purposes. Operando Computer Tomography provides a non-destructive investigation method of...

55. Combined Capacitive and Electrochemical Charge Storage Mechanism in High Performance Graphene-Based Lithium-Ion Batteries

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

Chemically produced graphene has already been used to increase specific capacity of batteries and maximum rate of charge and discharge; thanks to its affinity with graphite, batteries with graphene-based anodes can be assembled easily by partially exploiting the already established lithium-ion battery (LIB) technology. Moreover, graphene is also a good candidate in composite materials, in...

38. In-depth Soft-XAS Analysis of the Electrochemical Performance of Fully Optimized Graphite‖LNMO Li-Ion Cells

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

Besides the efforts to further increase the overall battery performance, the sustainability aspect is gaining more and more importance. From that perspective, aqueous processed cobalt-free LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 (LNMO) positive electrodes represent a promising candidate – not least as they enable a higher energy density compared to cobalt-free LFP. As presented in previous publications, there have...

51. Multiscale characterization approach to correlation of synthesis of layered oxides to their structure and chemistry

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

Li-rich layered oxides (LROs) are amongst the most promising high voltage cathode materials with regards to their practical density and cost, to increase the efficiency of Li-ion batteries (LIBs). LROs are reported to exhibit capacities reaching >250 mAh/g. However, LROs suffer from low initial coulombic efficiencies, voltage decay and low-rate capabilities. The origin of these issues is...

52. Ni(OH)2 decorated graphene for application in asymmetric hybrid supercapacitor

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

Asymmetric hybrid supercapacitors (AHSCs) exploit the advantages of both supercapacitors and batteries by storing charges through both capacitive processes and redox reactions. The capacitive electrical double layer is effectively harnessed using graphene electrodes due to its exceptional specific surface area. Meanwhile, redox reactions are introduced by means of transition metal...

53. Novel TiO2 Nanoparticles Decorated Graphene Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries Investigated with Operando X-ray Diffraction

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

Commercially available lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) show limitations for future large-scale applications, due to still low energy density, safety, slow charge/discharge rate and limited cycle-life. Battery recycling is also still an open problem, mostly bound to the use of toxic heavy metals. TiO2 is an abundant, low-cost and environmentally friendly electrode material, attractive for large...

50. Probing the operation of non-graphitizable carbon and Na3V2(PO4)2F3 in Na-ion batteries by operando solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

A possible Na-ion batteries (SIB) consists of non-graphitizable carbons for the negative electrode and Na3V2(PO4)2F3 (NVPF) for the positive electrode. (De)intercalation and (de)insertion of Na ions from/into non-graphitizable carbons and NVPF are focus of many recent studies [1]. The mentioned battery is relatively new compared to Li-ion, and the exact mechanism of its operation and...

49. Processing and development of quasi-anode free lithium-based batteries by thermal evaporation

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

The increasing popularity of portable electronic devices and the fast development of electric vehicles have greatly spurred the modernization of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) towards higher energy density, higher power density, and better safety. The currently commercialized graphite anode is limited by its relatively low theoretical and practical capacity (372 mAh g-1), its sluggish...

60. Quantum optimization algorithms in battery adaptive charging

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

Quantum Computing (QC) has the potential to revolutionize battery research by not only offering
computational advantages over classical computers but aspiring at a potential paradigm shift in
computational approaches. Potential research applications of high impact are in material
discovery, electrolyte design, reaction kinetics, molecular dynamics, and optimization of...

54. Simulating a novel Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy measurement system

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

The poster presents a novel Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) methodology for lithium-ion cells, and a digital model simulating the measurement system. The proposed methodology takes the nonlinear behaviour of the lithium-ion cell into account, modelling the cell as a Volterra system. The digital model is employed to showcase both the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed method...

57. Sn/Ti oxide from Ti3Al(1-x)SnxC2 MAX Phases (x=0.4, 0.7, 1) as Negative Electrode for Lithium Ion Batteries: three Sides of a Coin

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

Batteries are electrochemical devices that have characterized society and its development in recent decades. Moreover, to improve the use of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles, and with the continuous growth of the demand for portable electronics, the demand for batteries that can meet global needs has increased. Currently, the most widely used type of them is the lithium-ion...

47. Superstructure-Suppressed Oxygen Evolution in Co-free Materials for Na-ion Batteries

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

Sodium-ion batteries have attracted great interest because of the wide range of their potential applications and sodium abundance. To make Na-ion batteries competitive, the research on Na-ion batteries focuses on the development of new electrode materials, offering higher specific charges and voltages to reach higher energy density and performance comparable to or higher than those of...

39. Understanding the Redox Behaviour of Na+/Li+ Exchanged T2/O2-Li0.67+xNi0.33Mn0.67O2 using soft-XAS

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

With the growing need to further enhance the sustainability of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), the substitution of critical raw materials like cobalt in common positive electrode materials, i.e., layered oxides, by more abundant elements such as nickel and manganese is considered essential [1]. To address the challenging structural instability of such compositions, tuning the stacking order of...

58. X-RAYS meet NEUTRONS meet IONS meet ELECTRONS meet LASERS meet MAGNETS: Combined access to multiple facilities through EU project “ReMade@ARI”

11/29/23, 5:50 PM

Poster

With the purpose of boosting the Circular Economy, the European-funded project “Recyclable Materials development@Analytical Research Infrastructures” (ReMade@ARI) aims at providing a platform of characterization techniques around Europe.

With regular calls dedicated to academic research groups (TNA) and to industries (SME and IND), we offer access to different facilities, probing materials...