Cour No

Description

Heures

1

Introduction (V1)

• Brief self-introduction (professor and students)
• Energy conversion and storage technology and their integration with renewable energy and grid
• Why batteries
• Course arrangement (lessons, project plan, presentation, exams)

3

2;3

Fundamentals of batteries (V2, V3)

• Working principles of batteries (electrochemistry)
• Battery components and their functions (anode, cathode, electrolyte, separator, collector, etc)
• Various batteries and their applications
• Choices of the Project Plan

6

4;5

Materials design and characterization (V4, V5)

• Nanomaterials and nanotechnology
• Carbon/graphene, metals, metal oxide/sulfide/etc.
• Characterization techniques (XRD, SEM, TEM, XPS, Raman, IR, Synchrotron-XAS, etc.)
• In-situ and ex-situ characterization of the batteries

6

6

Metal-ion batteries (V6)

• Lithium-ion batteries
• Other metal-ion batteries (e.g., Na, K, Zn, etc.)

3

7;8

Battery fabrication and evaluation (V7, V8)

• Battery cell component fabrication.
• Battery assembly (coin cell, pouch cell, etc.)
• Demonstration of battery fabrication and characterization
• Battery performance evaluation (CV, EIS, charge/discharge, cycling and rate performance, CE, etc)

6

9

Midterm exam (V9)

3

10

High capacity and high energy density batteries (V10)

• Lithium metal batteries and others
• All-solid-state batteries

3

11

Metal-air batteries (V11)

• Working principles
• Advances, challenges, and perspectives
• Applications

3

12;13

Discussion of battery development (V12, V13)

• Various batteries (Li/Zn/Na/Al/etc batteries, all-solid-state batteries, metal-air batteries, flexible/wearable batteries, flow batteries, etc.)
• Current advances and challenges, as well as future perspectives
• Battery recycling
• Potential applications for EVs, electronics, and health/medical diagnosis, as well as energy storage (with power capacity from kW to MW or even larger) 

6

Total    

39 h