International Workshop on “Advanced Characterization of Li-ion Batteries by Neutrons and X-rays
International Workshop on “Advanced Characterization of Li-ion Batteries by Neutrons and X-rays
20th - 22nd June, 2023
This workshop will bring together world experts in advanced neutron and x-ray-based characterization techniques, researchers, and industry representatives to discuss new approaches to investigate the behavior of Li-ion batteries to solve challenges associated to battery performance.
Students, researchers, and scientists are welcome to join.
Location
R10, Realfagbygget
NTNU Gløshaugen Campus
Sem Sælands vei 12
7034 Trondheim
Norway
Workshop Schedule
Confirmed Invited speakers
Beamline Responsible BL22 CLAESS Core Level Absorption and Emission Spectroscopies Beamline, ALBA, Spain
Email: lsimonelli@cells.es
Laura works since 2004 on the investigation of functional materials, with particular focus on the interplay in between the lattice and electronic properties and their correlations with the functional ones. She mainly focused on the study of battery, high Tc superconductors, and environments or health correlated materials. She got the PhD in Material Science in 2007 and she is a group leader (from 4 to 6 members) and responsible of the CLAESS beamline at ALBA synchrotron since 2013. In 19 years of research, she produced 125 publications in international journals reaching a final H-index higher than 25.
Beamline Scientist BL09 MISTRAL Soft X-Ray Microscopy Beamline, ALBA, Spain
Email: asorrentino@cells.es
Andrea is a beamline scientist with more than 10 years of experience in soft X-rays transmission microscopy. He started to work in the field of X-ray imaging during his PhD in 2009 with the group lead by Stefano Lagomarsino at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology in Rome, carrying out a variety of experiments the field of X-ray imaging (propagation phase contrast, X-ray fluorescence, X-ray ptychography, micro diffraction tomography, transmission microscopy) in laboratory and at synchrotron light facilities. From 2012 he was Postdoc Researcher Associate and from 2016 Beamline Scientist at the Mistral beamline of the Alba synchrotron. His actual research interest focuses on the application of tomography and spectromicroscopy for the characterization of battery materials and biomineralization processes in biological cells. (H index = 18, number of publications = 48 from WoS).
Beamline Responsible BM01, Swiss-Norwegian Beamline, ESRF, France
Email: dmitry.chernyshov@esrf.fr
Dmitry is a beam line responsible at BM01 station of Swiss-Norwegian Beam Lines at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France. He received his PhD in Physics in 1998 from Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, and Doctor of Science (habilitation) degree from St.-Petersburg Polytechnic University in 2019. Dmitry’s professional interests are: experimental and theoretical crystallography, cooperative phenomena and phase transitions in solids; beam-line instrumentation and development; diffuse scattering, correlation and modulation diffraction techniques, in-situ experiments.
Postdoctoral Researcher BM31, Swiss-Norwegian Beamline, ESRF, France
Email: kenneth.marshall@esrf.fr
Kenneth is a postdoc at BM31, Swiss-Norwegian beamlines, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France. He received is MChem and PhD from the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK in 2013 and 2017 respectively, both in the department of chemistry, before doing a postdoctoral research position at department of material science at NTNU, Trondheim from 2018 - 2021. His scientific interests are solution processable photovoltaics, hydrothermal synthesis, in situ and operando measurements, X-ray diffraction and X-ray total scattering/ pair-distribution functions.
Beamline Scientist ID15A- Materials Chemistry and Materials Engineering, ESRF, France
Email: checchia@esrf.fr
Stefano is a scientist at the beamline ID15A of the ESRF (Grenoble, France) since June 2020, after a stint at MAX-IV (Lund, Sweden) and a postdoc also at ESRF. He applies high-energy X-ray diffraction to the study of fast processes and structural disorder in materials, particularly those of industrial interest for heterogeneous catalysis and electrochemical devices. His current projects include operando studies of catalytic nanoparticles, time- and spatially-resolved characterisation of Li-ion batteries, and studying electroceramics under applied electric field.
Instrument Scientist BT-2 Thermal Neutron Imaging Instrument, NIST, USA
Email: jacob.lamanna@nist.gov
Jake is a beam line responsible for the BT-2 thermal neutron instrument at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. He received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where he worked on multiphase transport in polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Jake started as a National Research Council postdoc at NIST in late 2014. As a postdoc, he developed the NIST Neutron and X-ray Tomography (NeXT) system. He has been a permanent staff scientist at NIST since 2016. His research interests revolve around using simultaneous neutron and X-ray tomography to characterize a wide range of samples and research topics. His current work in electrochemistry includes understanding degradation caused by extreme fast charging in lithium-ion batteries and developing ultra-fast neutron tomography methods to capture water dynamics in operating low temperature fuel cells.
Leader Applied Materials, PSI, Switzerland
Email: markus.strobl@psi.ch
Markus heads the Applied Materials Group of the Laboratory of Neutron Scattering and Imaging at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, after he worked at the European Spallation Source (ESS, Lund, Sweden) as deputy head of the Instrument Division and instrument class coordinator for imaging and engineering diffraction and he holds an affiliated professorship for neutron and x-ray imaging techniques at the Niels Bohr Institute of Copenhagen University. Before that he was an instrument scientist at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for many years and different neutron scattering instruments. His group in Switzerland operates three neutron imaging beam lines and an engineering diffractometer, which lend themselves among many other applications to various investigations in battery research.
Beamline Scientist BM25-SpLine X-Ray Scattering and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Beamline, ESRF, France.
Email: a.garcia.prieto@csic.es
Ana Garcia Prieto studied Materials Engineering and Chemistry and she received her PhD on Chemistry as Multidisciplinary Science. She has focused mostly on preparation and characterization of different materials, especially in ceramic materials. Currently she works at BM25-SpLine at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. Her research lies on characterization of oxide epitaxial thin films using different techniques such as X-ray Reflectivity and Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction among other synchrotron techniques.
Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragón (CSIC – University of Zaragoza).
Ángel obtained his PhD in Physics in 1991 with a dissertation about new radiation detectors based on superconducting materials at very low temperature. During his postdoctoral period, he started to work in the microstructure of ceramics for energy applications, subject to which he has devoted most of his scientific career. He is currently applying neutron scattering techniques to the in-situ and operando study of industrial batteries.
Morrow Batteries, Norway
Email: halvor.hval@morrowbatteries.com
Halvor Høen Hval has worked 2 years as a Research Scientist in Morrow Batteries, focusing on their LNMO-XNO technology. Besides this, he is a PhD-fellow at University of Oslo, in the Inorganic Materials’ Science group. Here he is studying the material properties of LNMO (LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4), and how metal stoichiometry, temperature and atmosphere is influencing both the cation ordering and the rock salt impurities within the material, and experiments at ESRF and PSI is an important part of this work.
Beyonder AS, Norway
Email: obinna@beyonder.no
Obinna works as a Material Engineer/ industrial PhD candidate at Beyonder AS within the research and development department. He is currently concluding his PhD at the University of Stavanger. He is involved in the material research and development of sustainable materials for Beyonder’s high-powered energy storage devices, electrode/electrolyte interface optimisation and analysis of failure mechanisms. His interests are in the material development, optimisation and electrochemical study of carbon materials for energy storage devices, lithium-ion capacitors and spectroscopic techniques for examining electrode/electrode interfaces.
FREYR, Norway
Email: silje.bryntesen@freyrbattery.com
Silje is working as a Senior Researcher in the Materials & Electrochemical Department at Freyr Battery Norway AS. She has worked in academia with lithium-ion batteries since 2015, and recently finished her Ph.D. within the aqueous processing of NMC electrodes from The Department of Energy and Process Engineering at NTNU. Her main interest are material research and the development of sustainable materials for FREYR’s unique Semi-solid technology.
Senior Research Scientist in SINTEF & Associate Adjunct Professor at the Dept. of Physics, NTNU.
Email: Per.Erik.Vullum@sintef.no
Vullum is a senior research scientist in the Materials Physics group in SINTEF Industry. He has been working with advanced transmission electron microscopy (TEM) characterization, applied to a broad range of materials, for the last 20 years. NTNU has one of the best TEM labs in Europe, and Vullum is responsible for utilizing the full capacity of the top level instrument in this national infrastructure. During the last 10 years, characterization of Li-ion battery materials and electrodes as a function of cycling has been one of Vullum's primary research topics.
Aragón Nanoscience and Materials Institute (CSIC-University of Zaragoza) Email: Javier.Campo@csic.es
Javier Campo (Spanish, 1968) made his doctoral thesis at the Aragón Materials Science Institute (ICMA), join research institute between the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Zaragoza, in 1995. Later he moved to the University of Montpellier where he made a post-doctoral stay of 2 years. From 1998 to 2002 Dr J Campo was appointed by the CSIC as scientist responsible for the CRG-D1B at the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble (France) and in 2003 he joined the ICMA as a researcher under the prestigious Spanish talent program “Ramón y Cajal” where he continued heading the Spanish CRG at the ILL, including the CRG-D15 and the new XtremeD. He was Director of the ICMA from 2012 to 2020. His scientific interest is focused on the study of "Magnetic Chirality" and “Purely organic magnets” by using neutron scattering techniques and recently he started to work on “in operando studies of materials for energy applications” by using also neutron scattering. Javier Campo is the author of more than 170 scientific papers and main researcher in more than 50 research projects. He has supervised 7 doctoral theses and has held several international membership, among others; vice-presidency of the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) from 2009 to 2014, Spanish delegate at the ILL Steering Committee since 2008, Chair of the VI European Conference on Neutron Scattering held in Zaragoza in 2015 and Chair of the Spanish Committee for Large Scale Scientific Facilities.
Vianode, Norway
Email: marit.kjarvik@vianode.com
Marit is a research engineer at Vianode, a manufacturer of synthetic graphite. She completed her PhD at Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -Prüfung (BAM)/Technical University Berlin in 2021, before that she studied nanotechnology at NTNU Trondheim. Her interest lies in material characterization with X-ray based methods, which during her PhD was focused on near-ambient pressure XPS. At Vianode Technology Center, graphite and related materials are characterized with methods as T-XRF, XRD, Raman spectroscopy, XRD, SEM and charge/discharge battery testing. Vianode is involved in several European and Norwegian research projects within battery material recycling and next generation anode materials.
