From Volta to Today's Li-ion Batteries and Beyond
Abstract
This presentation will briefly retrace the origin of the batteries and their evolution that have led to the development of the Li-ion technology and its commercialization in 1990. It will then describe today's battery technologies touching on the various electrodes and electrolytes to end with recent advances dealing either with the development of sustainable and greener Li-ion batteries with emphasis on novel eco-efficient synthesis processes of electrode materials, or with novel redox mechanisms in oxides.
About the speaker
Prof. Jean-Marie Tarascon received his PhD in Solid State Chemistry from the University of Bordeaux in 1981. He was Director of the Energy Storage Group at Bellcore from 1989 to 1994, and has been Professor of University of Picardie Jules Verne since 1994. He headed the laboratory of Reactivity and Solid State Chemistry of Amiens, a unit associated with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) from 1995 to 2008. He has been Director of both ALISTORE-ERI and of the Institute of Chemistry of Picardie since 2009. He was appointed Chair in Chemistry of Materials and Energy at Collège de France in 2013. He is also Senior Visiting Fellow of the HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study.
Prof. Tarascon’s field of research is in the development of new techniques for the synthesis of new electronic materials (superconductors, ferroelectrics, fluoride glasses and rechargeable batteries materials) for new solid state electronic devices, and for relating crystal structure to electronic, optical, and magnetic properties. His work has primarily focused on some electronic properties of Chevrel phases as well as their ability to insert or deinsérer alkali ions. He has made outstanding contributions in the field of superconductivity and was the original proponent of the thin and flexible plastic lithium ion battery based on a strong and highly resistant hybrid polymer system that is presently commercialized. He is exploiting new Li reactivity concepts such as conversion or displacement reactions, and novel electrodes designs for the next generation of Li-ion batteries based on nano-electrodes/electrolyte components. He holds 70 patents and has published more than 600 journal papers with h-index being over 90 and citations over 26000.
Prof. Tarascon received numerous awards including the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award, the Alessandro Volta Medal Award, the Japan Materials NIMS Award, the ISI Award, and the ENI Award for “Protection of the Environment, etc. He is a Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities and the French Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
