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Argonne to Host New International Automotive Li-Ion Battery Conference
8 June 2008
Argonne National Laboratory will co-organize and host the 1st International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automotive Applications on 15-17 September 2008.
Researchers from the US, Japan, and Korea jointly initiated the International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automobile Applications with the mission to:
Enhance the global effort on the R&D of advanced lithium batteries for automobile applications;
Accelerate the discussion and communication of R&D progress, achievement and problems; and
Further strengthen the global collaboration in this important and challenging field.
The topics of the 1st international conference will focus on:
New cell chemistries (cathode, anode, electrolyte and electrolyte additives);
Mechanism of the power and capacity fade of lithium ion batteries;
Advanced design on the low cost materials and processes;
Safety mechanism at the component and system level and novel techniques to improve the abuse tolerance;
Understanding the limitation on the performance at low temperatures from the chemistry and system level; and
New lithium battery systems.
The meeting is co-organized by Mr. Tien Duong, team Leader of vehicle technology program at the US Department of Energy; Dr. Khalil Amine, senior Fellow and manager of the advanced battery program at Argonne; Prof. Ogumi of Kyoto University, Japan; and Prof. Y-K. Sun of Hanyang University-Korea.
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Posted by: gr | June 08, 2008 at 05:57 PM
Lithium is the lightest metal with a single negative charge. It could be very near optimum in terms of active elements. Hydrogen ion is even lighter, but there is the problem of hydrogen gas in the battery.
Posted by: Lulu | June 08, 2008 at 07:56 PM
US, Japan, and Korea
What, no invite for China?
It sounds like the USA is trying to catch up by talking to other nations who also don't have a successful lithium battery industry.
They should rent a Chinese Lithium battery buss to transport the delegates.
Posted by: John Taylor | June 09, 2008 at 06:19 AM
Lulu,
If you had read the release correctly, you would have noticed it said that the three nations INITIATED the conference. It doesn't say anything about INVITING these or any other nations. Anybody will be welcome, it's an international conference. Even Chinese, if they can get the visa. As for ithium battery industries, you are right about Japan being unsuccesful. They 'only' commercialised the first li-ion battery (Sony, 1993), and 'only' have the largest manufacturer (Sanyo). They should try harder to emulate China, which has produced such nice batteries such as the one that powered my ipod (for 2 weeks anyway).
Posted by: Alex | June 12, 2008 at 02:31 AM
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Fine for present day technology. But how about some focused work on newer storage technologies? Lithium is okay for first generation PHEVs but we need continuing research on supercaps/chemical storage systems. Al air technology needs a lot more work as does Pb acid foam and even SOFCs for distributed power. Li-Io is just the beginning of electron storage and electro-generating systems that will be needed for the foreseeable future of transportation.