The development of sustainable materials demands optimized compositions for delivering high performance, while also ensuring long-term stability under realistic operating conditions. Conventional experimental approaches remain too slow and are not sufficiently interconnected. The synthesis, characterization, and data analysis are often carried out separately rather than within a unified workflow. This symposium explores advanced high-throughput experimentation and automated workflows to accelerate the discovery and broaden the understanding of sustainable energy materials. It focuses on interoperable workflows that link synthesis, characterization, and data analysis to enable the generation of reliable, comparable, scalable and reusable datasets.
The symposium will address novel experimental platforms and methodologies, including:
- Materials acceleration platforms (MAPs) and self-driving labs (SDLs)
- Automated experimental and modelling workflows
- Innovative experiments for accelerated stability and durability assessment
- Standardization of data collection and evaluation in interoperable workflows to increase the comparability and reusability of data
- Digital twins at material and device level
The goal of the symposium is to create an inter- and transdisciplinary medium to discuss current developments and challenges as well as best practices in automated and data-driven materials research for sustainable energy materials
- Autonomous and High-Throughput Materials Discovery
- Materials Acceleration Platforms and Self-Driving Labs
- Automated and Interoperable Experimental Workflows
- Stability, Degradation, and Lifetime Prediction
- Data-Driven Modeling and Digital Twins for Energy Materials
Andy Sode AnkerDoing my BSc/MSc in Physics and PhD in an interdisciplinary program crossing the disciplines like Chemical Engineering, Nanotechnology, and Electrochemistry made me who I am today – a scientist who enjoys the challenge of multifaceted research.
I enjoy doing basic research in order to solve applied tasks. This explains my research interest in fundamental physical chemistry, e.g. oxidation and dissolution of metals and semiconductors, electrocatalysis, and electrochemistry at modified interfaces but also electrochemical engineering, e.g. development and optimization of catalyst layers in fuel cells and water electrolyzes.
Progress in basic research is often a direct outcome of previous achievements in experimental instrumentation. Hence, a significant part of my interest is in the development of new tools, e.g. electrochemical on-line mass spectrometry, gas diffusion electrode approaches, and high-throughput screening methods.
Jason Hattrick-SimpersResearch team leader in “Materials for emerging technologies” -team, which focuses on understanding materials performance. He is principal expert (h-index 23, > 1200 citations) in advanced materials characterization, focusing on electron microscopies, and has more than 15 years of experience in leading national and international research and innovation projects and programs. His team is currently focusing on developing automated imaging and analysing workflows for various demanding applications, eventually enabling the development of materials acceleration platforms.
Helge Sören Stein