Overview
Professor Meng, a global leader in energy storage and materials science, will share the latest advances in next-generation battery technologies. Her talk will cover innovations in superionic conductors, metal anodes, and interfacial engineering, as well as the role of AI and autonomous experimentation in accelerating materials discovery.
High energy long life rechargeable battery is considered as the key enabling technology for deep de-carbonization. Energy storage in the electrochemical form is attractive because of its high efficiency and fast response time. The world will need more than 10TWh per year battery capacity in the next decade in order to accelerate the energy transition. In this talk, I will discuss a few new perspectives for energy storage materials including new superionic conductors, new reactive metal anodes and their interfacial engineering.
With recent advances in photon and electron characterization tools and computational methods, we can explore ionic mobility, charge transfer and phase transformations in electrode and electrolyte materials in solid state battery. Most recently we established ESRA, Energy Innovation Hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) focused on energy storage beyond lithium ion. ESRA aims to enable transformative discoveries in materials chemistry by leveraging the most cutting-edge scientific tools, particularly machine learning tools and generative AI, in coordination with autonomous experiments.
Schedule
Date: 19 May 2025, Monday
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM (GMT +8:00) Kuala Lumpur, Singapore
Location: 2 Fusionopolis Way, Multi-Purpose Hall, Innovis Tower, Level 1, 138634
Speakers
Speaker's Profile:
Shirley Meng, Professor at Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, University of Chicago
Dr. Y. Shirley Meng is the Liew Family Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She serves as the Chief Scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Meng is the director of Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA), an innovation hub funded in 2024 by US Department of Energy, Office of Science.
