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Battery Materials 2025: Next-Generation & Beyond Li-Ion Battery Technology

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FEB 2025
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This will TechBlick’s fourth online event covering four major themes in the battery industry:

(1) Non-Li chemistries inculding Na, Al, etc
(2) Next-gen and frontier Li-ion anodes and cathodes
(3) Towards sustainable battery materials and processing
(4) Solid state batteries

This event has a joint program with this event on Solid State Batteries. 
The confer...

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8inks
Paul Baade

8inks

Paul Baade

Co-Founder

Multilayer curtain coating for lithium-ion batteries

Multilayer curtain coating as a manufacturing platform unlocks mass production of nextgen battery de...

AM Batteries
Yan Wang

AM Batteries

Yan Wang

Co-founder & President

Dry Electrode Manufacturing Technology-An Enabler for Low Cost Batteries.

The global acceleration towards sustainable energy has driven the need for low-cost, de-carbonized b...

Altris
Dr. William Brant

Altris

Dr. William Brant

Founder

Empowering an Independent future: Industrializing Sodium-Ion Battery Technology with Altris

Discover how Altris is revolutionizing energy storage with its cutting-edge sodium-ion battery techn...

Argonne National Laboratory
Christopher Johnson

Argonne National Laboratory

Christopher Johnson

Senior Chemist

New LENS Consortium: Advancing State-of-Art Sodium-ion Batteries

Avicenne Energy
Michael Sanders

Avicenne Energy

Michael Sanders

Senior Advisor

Challenges And Opportunities For Solid-State Players

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
Alex Albinski

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Alex Albinski

Analyst

Anode Market Trends: The Rise of Synthetic Graphite?

Graphite is the most widely used anode active material in lithium-ion batteries. In 2024, anode prod...

E-Lyte Innovations GmbH
Jonathan Bäthge

E-Lyte Innovations GmbH

Jonathan Bäthge

Enhancing battery safety in Sodium-Ion Batteries: Introduction of a novel electrolyte additive to suppress Sodium plating and improve lifespan

The electrolyte plays a crucial role in improving key performance indicators (KPIs) such as efficien...

Fraunhofer IFAM
Mario Kohl & Daniela Fenske

Fraunhofer IFAM

Mario Kohl & Daniela Fenske

Printing

Printing technology as green alternative for thick layer Li Ion Battery electrode production

The need for more ecological and sustainable production technologies is a general demand for competi...

Georgia Institute of Technology
Matthew McDowell

Georgia Institute of Technology

Matthew McDowell

Interface Evolution in Solid-State Batteries

Solid-state batteries offer the promise of improved energy density and safety compared to lithium-io...

Graphenix Development Inc (GDI)
Robert Anstey

Graphenix Development Inc (GDI)

Robert Anstey

CEO

Commercialization of 100% Silicon Anodes using GDl's Advanced Electrode Architecture and Industrial PECVD Equipment

Innolith
Laurent Zinck

Innolith

Laurent Zinck

Chief Scientist

Next-Generation Li-Ion Batteries: High performance through 5V Stable and Highly Conductive Inorganic Electrolyte

Conventional lithium-ion batteries utilizing organic electrolyte suffer severely from several drawba...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jianchao Ye

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jianchao Ye

Scientist

Laser Additive Manufacturing for Batteries

The development of cost-effective, high-performance battery manufacturing technologies is essential ...

LionVolt
Sandeep Unnikrishnan

LionVolt

Sandeep Unnikrishnan

Co-founder & CTO

Enabling next generation Li metal batteries

World needs next generation batteries to address the energy density limitations of conventional lith...

Lyten
Ratnakumar Bugga

Lyten

Ratnakumar Bugga

Senior Fellow

Lyten's Advancements in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries for Electric Vehicles

Lithium-sulfur batteries is an attractive battery technology, beyond the current Li-ion batteries wi...

Metal Light Inc.
Ryan Goethals

Metal Light Inc.

Ryan Goethals

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Novel Solid-State Metal-Air Batteries for Rail and Maritime

Nanode Battery Technologies
Jiankuan Li

Nanode Battery Technologies

Jiankuan Li

Chief Scientist

Beyond Lithium: Redesigning Sodium-Ion Architectures with Sn-Based Anodes via Streamlined Fabrication Techniques

Current lithium-/sodium-ion batteries (LIBs/SIBs) are unable to meet the rapidly-growing energy dem...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ethan Self

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ethan Self

R&D Associate- Materials Electrochemist

Solution-Based Synthesis of Disordered Rocksalt (DRX) Li-ion Cathodes

Li-ion batteries containing conventional cathodes are unable to meet projected energy demands due to...

Orion Carbons
Dietmar Jansen

Orion Carbons

Dietmar Jansen

Chemist

Engineered Carbon Blacks for Energy Storage Applications

Carbon Black is a critical component in lithium batteries, regardless of the specific technology emp...

P3 automotive GmbH
Behnoosh  Bornamehr

P3 automotive GmbH

Behnoosh Bornamehr

Consultant

Next-gen battery strategies 2027+: Potentials and challenges for future battery designs and diversification in product portfolios to serve a large bandwidth of market applications

Revolutionizing Automotive Energy Storage: Investigating the integration of Cell-to-Pack (CTP) and C...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Dongping Lu

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Dongping Lu

Senior Scientist/Lead

Cathode Development for High-Energy All-Solid-State Lithium-Sulfur Battery

The All Solid-State Lithium-Sulfur Battery (ASSLSB) holds great promise in delivering a safe, high e...

SIONIC ENERGY
Karthik Ramaswami

SIONIC ENERGY

Karthik Ramaswami

CTO

On the Road to Commercializing Graphite-free 100% Silicon Batteries

Congratulations, you have developed a great Silicon anode material! Mission accomplished? Not so fas...

SNCF
Maxime Juston

SNCF

Maxime Juston

Engineer-PhD, Battery Expert

Usage and expectation of the railway system for batteries

Sakuu
Arwed Niestroj

Sakuu

Arwed Niestroj

Reinventing manufacturing for better batteries

For decades the manufacturing process of batteries and its components has shown only incremental imp...

Sandia National Laboratories
Alex Bates

Sandia National Laboratories

Alex Bates

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Multi-Scale Safety Evaluation of Commercial Sodium-ion Cells and Materials

Sepion Technologies
Peter Frischmann

Sepion Technologies

Peter Frischmann

CEO & Co-Founder

The Next-Generation of Battery Separators

Solidion Technology, Inc.
Bor Jang

Solidion Technology, Inc.

Bor Jang

Chief Science Officer

Elastic Polymer-Encapsulated Micron-Scaled Si Particles: A Low-Cost Solution to High-Energy Lithium-ion Batteries

Stellantis
Luca Belforte

Stellantis

Luca Belforte

Sustainable materials and advanced characterization for the next generation batteries

Stratus Materials
Jay Whitacre

Stratus Materials

Jay Whitacre

CEO/CTO

Stabilized Cobalt-Fee Lithium-Rich Cathode Materials; Using Process Innovation to Create a Safe and Practical Next Generation Battery Material.

This talk will cover exciting new results from Stratus Materials showing the performance of our next...

Teraton
Dr Lorenzo Grande

Teraton

Dr Lorenzo Grande

Founder & CEO

Li-ion Batteries in a Circular Economy

UNIGRID Battery
Darren Tan

UNIGRID Battery

Darren Tan

Chief Executive Officer

Advanced Na-Ion Batteries for clean Mobility & Storage

Advanced sodium ion batteries have already achieved energy densities competitive with lithium ion, h...

Washington University in St. Louis
Dr.Ruoxi Chen

Washington University in St. Louis

Dr.Ruoxi Chen

High-Capacity Half-Flow Li-02 Battery

Yale University
Liangbing Hu

Yale University

Liangbing Hu

Professor

Cellulose Batteries

I will discuss a general design strategy for achieving one-dimensional (1D), high- performance polym...

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