This symposium dives into recent progress achieved by international experts in academia and industry in the area of sustainable and emerging battery chemistries beyond classical Li-ion batteries, including mono- and multi-valent chemistries based on organic and aqueous electrolyte media, to achieve net zero.
We particularly welcome contributions from researchers in the field of sustainable battery technologies, including those based on Na, K, Mg, Ca, Zn and Al, that highlight advances and novel approaches toward the design, characterisation and understanding of electrode and electrolyte materials, and their respective interf(ph)ases.
- Mono and multivalent organic and aqueous-based batteries beyond Li, including Na, K, Mg, Ca, Zn and Al- based batteries
- Inorganic and organic electrodes
- Organic, aqueous and super-concentrated electrolytes
- Interfaces and interphases
- Modelling and simulation
- Insights from industry
Since the 1st of October 2023, Sonia Dsoke holds a Professorship for “Electrochemical Energy Carriers and Storage” at the Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering (INATECH), University of Freiburg, she leads a group “Innovative Battery Materials” at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and she is member of the Freiburger material center (FMF).
At the international level, she is the chair of Division 3 (electrochemical energy conversion and storage) of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), one of the largest electrochemical communities in the world.
From 2017 until September 2023 Sonia Dsoke was the leader of a multidisciplinary group at the Institute for Applied Materials – Energy Storage Systems (KIT, Germany). In the same period, she was the deputy director of the platform CELEST and a spokesperson for Research Unit A (electrode materials) in the Cluster of Excellence POLiS dealing with “post-lithium” battery research. Previously she led an independent young research group focused on designing novel electrodes for Hydrid Battery-Supercapacitors at ZSW-Ulm (Germany). She also had industrial experience at an Italian battery manufacturing company FAAM (in 2009) and she was a researcher at the University of Camerino (Italy), where she also obtained her PhD in the field of Li-ion batteries.
Sonia Dsoke was honored with the Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange Programm Grant (2017-2019, Ministry of Science and Culture, Baden-Württemberg) and a Young Investigator Group Grant (2012-2016, Federal Ministry of Education and Research) within the framework “Energy Storage Initiative”.
Her actual main research subjects are the development of novel advanced functional materials for supercapacitors, lithium, and post-lithium ion batteries, with a special focus on tackling challenges of novel battery concepts such as Na, K, Mg, Ca, and Al batteries.
Patrik Johansson is Professor in Chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden, and holds a Distinguished Professor grant with the topic of “Next Generation Batteries” from the Swedish Research Council (48.5 MSEK – ca. 4.5M€, 10 years). He is the Director of Battery 2030+ as well as co-director of ALISTORE-ERI.
Prof. Johansson received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 1998 from Uppsala University, Sweden and has continuously aimed at combining understanding of new materials at the molecular scale, often via ab initio/DFT computational methods and IR/Raman spectroscopy, with battery concept development and real battery performance – with a special interest in all kinds of electrolytes. He is currently active in several large battery projects both at the national and European level, including educational efforts such as DESTINY. Most notably, his team won the Open Innovation Contest on Energy Storage arranged by BASF in 2015 for his new ideas on Al-battery technology (prize sum 100,000€) and in 2020 he was awarded “l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, Grade d'Officier” by the French Ministry of Education. He has published ca. 250 papers and started the software company Compular AB together with some former PhD students.
Laure Monconduit is research director at the CNRS at the ICGM, in Montpellier University, France. She obtained her PhD degree at the University of Nantes, France. After a postdoctoral research at Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, she joined CNRS. In 2011, she was promoted CNRS research director, and has headed the "Batteries" research group since. Her research focuses on Li-ion and post-Li (Na, K, Mg, Ca-ion), M metal batteries with particular attention focused on the redox mechanisms of electrode materials and those occurring at the electrode/electrolyte interface, by operando techniques. Recently, battery recycling and solid-state batteries have also become large part of her areas of interest. She is highly involved in the RS2E French network (Réseau sur le stockage électrochimique de l'énergie) and in the European ALISTORE ERI network. LM is/was leader or participant of numerous scientific projects, National projects (ANR, CNRS), European or International project (H2020, PHC..) and had/has strong collaborations with industrial partners (Saft, Umicore, Total S.A., Hutchinson, Nanomakers, Renault, Pellenc, SNAM) and EPIC (CEA, IFPEN). She is the author of >200 articles in international peer reviewed journals, of 13 patents, of 8 book chapters, many presentations in international conferences.