Topic: Materials for Sustainable Energy: Battery Materials

Energy storage will be far more important in the future than at any time in human history.  It has a vital role in combating global warming (e.g. hybrid electric vehicles), in the future development of portable electronic devices and in powering active medical implants (e.g. artificial heart).  The rechargeable lithium battery has already revolutionised portable consumer electronics and is now a six billion dollar industry worldwide.  The future of rechargeable batteries depends critically on materials chemistry.  It is essential to step away from the immediate technological challenges and develop fundamental new materials chemistry leading to new electrodes, new electrolytes and new approaches, if we are to realise the leap forward in understanding necessary to deliver the desired advances.  The session will discussed a number of developments at the cutting edge of materials for energy storage.

Session: Battery Materials - Thursday 5 July (pm)

Keynote
Jean-Marie Tarascon
Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France 

Single source precursors for the chemical vapour deposition of ME2 (M = Ti, Zr, Hf; E = S, Se)
Andrew L Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid and Stuart D Reid*
University of Southampton, UK

Mesoporous materials as positive electrodes for Li-ion batteries
Feng Jiao, K M Shaju and Peter G Bruce*
University of St Andrews, UK

Ion conducting solid electrolytes based on nanostrutured polymers
Trang Phan*, Renaud Bouchet, Michael Robinet and Denis Bertin
Université d' Aix-Marseille 1, France

Varying the carrier concentration in lithium conducting garnets
Michael P O'Callaghan*, Edmund J Cussen, Jeremy J Titman and George Z Chen 
University of Nottingham, UK

Supercapacitors based on partial pyrolysis of polyacrylonitrile
F J Davis*, M Brittin, (the late) A Gilmour, R A A Gilmour and G R Mitchell
University of Reading, UK

Ions: the neglected carriers in organic electronics
George G Malliaras*
Cornell University, USA

Substituted pyridine ligands for use in solar cell dyes
Neil Robertson, Lesley J Yellowlees, Lucy P Moorcraft*, James Jennings and Laurie M Peter
University of Edinburgh, UK