Presentation was held Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 1:00-2:00pm (Pacific Time)
Reinventing Batteries Through Materials Design and New Tools
How to increase battery energy density, reduce cost, speed up charging, extend life, enhance safety and reuse/recycle are critical challenges. Here I will present the 15 year research in my lab to address many of challenges by understanding the materials and interfaces through new tools and providing guiding principles for design. The topics to be discussed include: 1) A breakthrough tool of cryogenic electron microscopy, leading to atomic scale resolution of fragile battery materials and interfaces. 2) Materials design to enable high capacity materials: Si and Li metal anodes and S cathodes. 3) Lithium extraction from sea water and for battery recycling. 4) New battery chemistry for grid scale storage.
Bio
Yi Cui is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. His training include B.S. in Chemistry in 1998 at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Ph.D in 2002 at Harvard University, Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. In 2005 he joined in Stanford faculty. He has published ~510 research papers and has an H-index of 207 (Google). In 2014, he was ranked NO.1 in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters as “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”. He is a Fellow of AAAS, Materials Research Society, Electrochemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry. He is an Executive Editor of Nano Letters. He is the Director of Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford. He is a Co-Director of the Bay Area Photovoltaics Consortium, a Co-Director of Battery 500 Consortium and Co-Director of Stanford StorageX Initiative. His selected awards include: DOE Lawrence Award (2020), MRS Medal (2020), Blavatnik National Laureate (2017). He has founded four companies to commercialize technologies from his group: Amprius Inc., 4C Air Inc., EEnotech Inc. and EnerVenue Inc.