Speaker: Quanquan Pang, Peking University

Moderator: Haixia (Alice) Zhang, Peking University

Time: 20:00 pm, October 7, 2022, GMT+8

Venue: iCANX Talks platform https://www.ican-x.com/talks

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Abstract:

Rechargeable batteries are one of the key elements in promoting renewable energy utilization and transportation electrification, which are critical for carbon neutralization. Sulfur is an earth abundant element that is cheap and can offer high redox capacity, and therefore can have great potential to serve as an electrode material for rechargeable batteries. This talk summarizes our research progress on (1) sulfur cathode design strategies for lithium-sulfur battery, (2) high-performance electrolyte designing principles for lithium-sulfur batteries, and (3) establishment of low-cost and highly safe aluminum-sulfur battery based on molten salt electrolytes. The emphasis is on the foundational chemical principles for designing high-performance sulfur batteries, strategies to tune the chemical reactions and the materials approaches to achieve such strategies, and examples of how to establish high-performance sulfur batteries.

Biography:

Quanquan Pang is an assistant professor in School of Materials Science and Engineering at Peking University. He is among the highly cited researchers certified by Clarivate. He is mainly interested in studying new battery systems, solid state batteries and sulfur batteries for electrochemical energy storage and electric vehicles. He has published over 20 papers in journals including Nature, Nature Energy, Joule, PNAS, Nature Communications and Advanced Materials. He is chairing the National Key R&D programs under the “Electrical Vehicle” Initiative of the Ministry of Science and Technology, China, among other programs.

Source: iCANX