29-31 January 2024
Europe/Madrid timezone
Venue: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona & ALBA, Spain

Programme

 

Time slot

Topic

Day 1 – 29/01 (afternoon)

12.30 – 13.30 Registration and Networking Lunch

13.30 – 14.00

Welcome, Caterina Biscari, ALBA

LEAPS-INNOV project overview, Franz Hennies, MAX IV

14.00 – 17.30

14.00-15.00

 

15.00-15.30

15.30-16.00

16.00 - 16.30

 

16.30-17.00

17.00-17.30

Hot topics on Battery research (invited speakers):

Multitechniques Battery Workflows using synchrotron techniques, Sandrine Lyonnard, CEA

Accelerating Battery Research using Accelerator based-Photon Sources: Challenges and Opportunities in Energy Storage, Paul Shearing, Faraday Institutions

COFFEE BREAK

X-ray spectroscopy for battery characterisation, Lorenzo Stievano, ICGM – Univ. Montpellier

X-ray diffraction and absorption spectroscopy for a better understanding of battery materials, Marine Reynaud, CICENERGIGUNE

Zinc-air battery studies: the role of spectroscopy and imaging, Benedetto Bozzini, POLIMI

 17.30 – 19.00

Poster Session: facilities technical and scientific highlights

20.30 – 22.00

Official Forum Dinner: Xiroi Ca La Nuri Restaurant, Passeig Marítim de la Nova Icària, 38, Sant Martí, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

Day 2 – 30/01

9.00 – 12.00

Synchrotrons and FELs capabilities for battery research

09.00 - 09.15 Towards multi-dimensional operando spectroscopy for battery materials at BESSY II, Philipp Hönicke, HZB

09.15 - 09.30 Traceable operando battery characterization using calibrated x-ray spectrometric instrumentation – quantitative analysis of the polysulfide driven degradation in lithium-sulfur batteries during cycling, Burkhard Beckhoff, PTB

09.30 - 09.45 Advances in operando soft X-ray spectroscopy for battery research, Robert Temperton, MAX IV

09.45 - 10.00 Battery research at Diamond Light Source: Current status and opportunities, Sofia Diaz-Moreno and Elizabeth Shotton, DIAMOND

10.00 - 10.15 Spatially resolved XPS for operando studies of materials, reactions and devices, Luca Gregoratti, ELETTRA

10.15 - 10.30 Development of operando techniques in zero-excess solid-state batteries, Miguel Angel Nino, ALBA

10.30 - 10.45 COFFEE BREAK

10.45 - 11.00 Standardisation of control, data and metadata provision of in-situ and operando measurements via the Sample Environment Communication Protocol (SECoP), Klaus Kiefer, HZB

11.00 - 11.15 Full field tomography for battery research at Hereon beamlines at PETRA III, Fabian Wilde, DESY/HEREON

11.15 - 11.30 Soft X-ray Scanning Transmission Microscopy at MAX IV, Igor Beinik, MAX IV

11.30 - 11.45 TOMCAT 2.0: multiscale, multimodal dynamic tomographic microscopy, Federica Marone, PSI

11.45 - 12.00 Research opportunities for battery characterization at EuXFEL, Ulrike Boesenberg, EUXFEL

12.00 – 12.45 Transfer to ALBA Synchrotron (organised bus)
12.45 – 13.30 Lunch at ALBA

13.30 – 15.00

Round table discussions on five main challenges in battery research (parallel meetings)

15.00 – 16.00

Visit ALBA: networking, targeted tools visit

16.00 – 16.30

Break

16.30 – 18.00

Industrial perspective discussions

Industrial - academic collaboration to accelerate battery technology and manufacturing development in Europe, Martin Karlsson (Northvolt)

High-Throughput Synchrotron X-ray Scattering for the Battery Industry, Bernd Hinrichsen (BASF/Momentum Transfer)

TEESMAT: A commercial platform to characterise electrochemical systems, Cyril Marino (TEESMAT)

18.15 – 19.00

Transfer to Barcelona down-town (bus)

19.30 – 21.00

Dinner (at own cost)

Day 3 – 31/01 (morning)

9.00 – 11.00

User case studies (applied research talks)

09.00 - 09.15 UltraBat: Capturing ultrafast electron and ion dynamics in batteries, Christopher Milne, EUXFEL

09.15 - 09.30 Exploring Li-ion Battery Safety Using Synchrotron High-Speed X-ray Imaging, Matilda Fransson, ESRF

09.30 - 09.45 Beam effects in synchrotron radiation based operando characterization of battery materials: XRD and XAS study of LiNi0.33Mn0.33Co0.33O2 and LiFePO4 electrodes, Ashley Black, ICMAB-CSIC

09.45 - 10.00 Understanding Battery Mechanisms through Operando Synchrotron Studies at BESSY II, Sebastian Risse, HZB

10.00 - 10.15 Charge state distribution in aged electrodes probed by 2D X-ray fluorescence imaging, Giuliana Aquilanti, ELETTRA

10.15 - 10.30 Elucidating the Influence of Transition-Metal Order and stoichiometry on the Reaction Mechanism of LNMO Cathode Spinel via a multi technique approach, Marcus Fehse, CICenergiGUNE

10.30 - 10.45 Oxygen Redox Assisted High-Capacity Sodium Transition Metal Oxides for Sodium-Ion Batteries, Seung-Taek Myung, Sejong University

10.45 - 11.00 Understanding battery performance and degradation by means of spatially-resolved operando X-ray diffraction and X-ray diffraction tomography, Stefano Checchia, ESRF

11.30 – 13.30

Panel discussion on new enabling technologies, possible collaboration modes and funding