Spectroscopy and theory for studying electronic
structure of lithium battery materials
Time: Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Location: 54-130 (Pers Hall)
Organizers: Wanli Yang, Zhi Liu, Jinghua Guo, Zahid Hussain
Scope: A soft x-ray workshop NOT limited to soft x-ray techniques. Focus is on the critical
issues in Li-ion battery materials, and possible solutions through soft x-ray spectroscopy and
theoretical calculations.
•Critical issues involved in Li-ion battery performance, safety, and life-time.
•Soft x-ray spectroscopy and theoretical calculations for battery material researches
Time Speaker /Title
08:00 - 08:30 Morning Coffee & Breakfast at ALS
08:30 - 09:00 Mariappan Parans Paranthaman (Oak Ridge National Lab)
Surface Modification of Cathode Materials and Novel Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries
09:00 – 09:30 Zhi Liu (Berkeley Lab)
Topic: on ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
09:30 - 10:00 Thomas Conry (Polyplus)
Next-Generation Li-Air, Li-Sulfur, and Li-Water Batteries Based on Protected Lithium Electrodes
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break & Discussions
10:15 - 10:45 Dennis Nordlund/Tsu-Chien Weng (Stanford)
Topic: X-ray Raman Spectroscopy of Lithium Battery Materials
10:45 - 11:15 Nelson, Johanna (Stanford)
Spectroscopic Nanometer Resolution Imaging on Li-ion Batteries
11:15 - 11:45 David Prendergast (Molecular Foundry)
Using SImulated X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy to Study Energy Storage Materials
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00 Venkat Srinivasan (EETD)
Topic: Energy storage for electric vehicles
14:00 - 14:30 Debajeet K. Bora (Berkeley Lab)
In-situ soft x-ray spectroscopic study of the hole diffusion in photoelectrochemical water-splitting of
hematite
14:30 - 15:00 Nikhilendra Singh (Toyota)
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy for Mg battery electrolytes
15:00- 15:15 Coffee break & Discussions
15:15 - 15:45 Xiaosong Liu (Berkeley Lab)
Soft x-ray spectroscopy study of electronic structure in LiFePO4
15:45 - 16:15 Jonathan Lee (Livermore National Lab)
In Situ Soft X-ray Spectroscopy for the Investigation of Advanced Materials for Electrical Energy
Storage
