[E&E seminars] Today! - MITEI Seminar Series: Jean-Marie Tarascon - Advances, Trends, and Challenges in the Li-ion Battery Storage System

[Jameson Twomey]

We hope you will join us today as we welcome Professor Jean-Marie  
Tarascon of the Universite de Picardie, Member of the French Academy  
of Science.

Recent advances, new trends, and future challenges within the Li-ion  
battery energy storage system
Jean-Marie Tarascon

Date: February 10th
Time: 4:15-5:45 - Reception to follow
Location: 66-110 (Landau Building, 25 Ames Street)

Abstract
	Rechargeable Li-ion cells power most of today’s portable electronics  
and are serious contenders to both facilitate the rapid development of  
electric, plug-in or hybrid-electric vehicles, and to better exploit  
intermittent renewable energy sources (wind, solar) if safety  
improvements can be achieved while being mindful of materials  
resources and abundances, as well as materials synthesis and recycling  
processes, which could inflict a heavy energy cost. Not only are  
today’s Li-ion batteries based on inorganic insertion compounds that  
are not environmentally benign, but such materials are produced from  
ores that are increasingly scarce as well. Thus, electrode materials  
with a minimal natural footprint made via eco-efficient processes are  
sorely needed. Aware of such issues, researchers over the last few  
years have searched for alternatives, namely materials with main  
components that are naturally abundant, low-cost, and non-toxic.

	We will highlight how moving from bulk to nanomaterials can  
significantly change electrode properties in order to a) enable  
insertion reactions in poorly conducting compounds that have been so  
far disregarded, and b) trigger novel reactivity mechanisms, such as  
conversion reactions, with staggering capacity gains. We will also  
take a fresh look at organic-based electrodes and the possibility of  
using conjugated dicarboxylate anodes and oxocarbons’ positive  
electrodes for renewable Li-ion batteries.

About the Speaker


	Jean-Marie Tarascon (1953) is presently professor at the University  
of Picardie (Amiens), but most of his career was done in the USA,  
first at Cornell University (1980), then at Bell Laboratories and  
finally at Bellcore until 1994. His field of research lies in the  
development of new techniques for the synthesis of new electronic  
materials (new superconductors, new ferroelectrics, new fluoride  
glasses and new rechargeable batteries materials) for new solid state  
electronic devices, and relating crystal structure to electronic,  
optical and magnetic properties.

	He is Author of about 63 patents and more than 470 publications,  
recipient of many awards, the last in line being the Volta Medal, the  
2004 “ISI AWARD”, his nomination at the French Academy of Sciences in  
2005 and the UPJV gold medalist in 2008.


We hope you will join us!

We thank CERA for its sponsorship of the MITEI Seminar Series.
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