BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Engineering Seminar: Sustainable Next-generation Battery Techn ologies X-WR-TIMEZONE:Central Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260612T210106Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43897536374231 DTSTART:20230929T180000Z DTEND:20230929T190000Z DESCRIPTION:Dr. Arumugam Manthiram\, Professor and Chair of Engineering in Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Dept. of Chemical Engineering at UT Au stin will give a seminar titled "Sustainable Next-generation Battery Techn ologies" to the interested faculty and students at Discovery Park.\n\n \n\ nAbsttact\n\nThe widespread adoption of battery technologies for electric vehicles and grid electricity storage requires optimization of cost\, ener gy density\, power density\, cycle life\, safety\, and environmental impac t\, all of which are directly linked to severe materials challenges. Cost and sustainability will be the single dominant factor as we march forward. This presentation will focus on the development of sustainable next-gener ation battery chemistries and materials. Strategies and approaches for eli mination of expensive and scarcely available cobalt\, followed by eliminat ing nickel and ultimately any mined metal\, including lithium\, will be di scussed. As an example\, the progress on cobalt-free high-nickel cathodes\ , lithium-sulfur cells\, and sodium-sulfur cells will be presented. The ch allenges of bulk and surface instability and chemical crossover during cha rge-discharge cycling\, dynamics and stabilization of lithium or sodium pl ating and striping\, advanced characterization methodologies to develop an in-depth understanding\, and approaches to overcome the challenges will b e presented.\n\n \n\nBiography\n\nArumugam Manthiram is currently the Geor ge T. and Gladys H. Abell Endowed Chair of Engineering at the University o f Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). He was the Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Program at UT-Austin f or 11 years during 2011 – 2022. He received his Ph.D. degree in chemistr y in 1981 from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. After working as a l ecturer in chemistry at the Madurai Kamaraj University for 4 years and as a postdoctoral fellow both at the University of Oxford and at UT-Austin wi th John Goodenough\, he became a faculty at UT-Austin in 1991. His researc h is focused on batteries and fuel cells. He has authored 950 journal arti cles with 106\,000 citations and an h-index of 161. He has mentored ~ 300 students and postdoctoral researchers\, including the graduation of 71 Ph. D. students. He founded two startup companies\, ActaCell Energy Systems in 2007 and TexPower EV Technologies in 2019.\n\nHe is a Fellow of Materials Research Society\, Electrochemical Society\, American Ceramic Society\, R oyal Society of Chemistry\, and American Association for the Advancement o f Science. He is an elected member of the World Academy of Ceramics. He re ceived the Battery Division Research Award in 2014\, Henry B. Linford Awar d for Distinguished Teaching in 2020\, Battery Division Technology Award i n 2021\, and the Inaugural John B. Goodenough Award in 2023\, all from the Electrochemical Society. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of t he Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2015\, Billy and Claude R. Hoc ott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award in 2016\, and Inte rnational Battery Association Research Award in 2020. He delivered the 201 9 Chemistry Nobel Prize Lecture in Stockholm on behalf of Professor John G oodenough. GEO:33.253134;-97.148579 LOCATION:Discovery Park Building\, E264 SUMMARY:Engineering Seminar: Sustainable Next-generation Battery Technologi es URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.unt.edu/event/ES_202309291300 CATEGORIES:Lectures & Speakers END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR