Ensuring a Circular Batteries Industry: Challenges and Opportunities

Electrochemical energy storage devices such as batteries will play a dominant role in electrification of transportation and clean electricity from renewables for reaching the ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. Li-ion batteries (LIBs), the current dominant technology, is facing an increasing pressure on maintaining a stable supply-chain and their dependence on critical materials such as Li, Co, Ni and graphite, and their associated socio-environmental impacts. Furthermore, LIBs are not optimal from both cost and scalability perspective for long duration energy storage (LDES) that demands resilient storage systems longer than 10 hours. This talk will provide a high-level overview and summary of current high energy density battery chemistries for transportation and grid-scale energy storage and research efforts to develop alternate battery materials from earth abundant elements.

Speaker: Jagjit Nanda is Distinguished Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Director of the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center. In this seminar, he will discuss the work of the battery center.