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SUMMARY:Non lithium based technologies: walking on the sodium side - Dr Ro
 sa Palacin\, CSIC\, Inst Ciencia Mat Barcelona\, Spain
DTSTART:20150219T143000Z
DTEND:20150219T153000Z
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CONTACT:Sian Bunnage
DESCRIPTION:The development of room temperature sodium based batteries is 
 currently a challenge in fundamental materials research.  While it holds p
 romise for accelerated development thanks to the knowledge gained in the 
 “chemically similar” Li-ion ubiquitous technology\, the Na-ion technol
 ogy is still in its infancy.  Proof of concept was given long ago but it i
 s only recently that the topic has recaptured the attention of the scienti
 fic community concomitant to large scale development of the Li-ion technol
 ogy and concerns about lithium cost and availability.  Since Na-ion batter
 ies do not involve the use of sodium metal anodes\, there would be no a pr
 iori reason to think that they cannot attain the same performances than Li
 -ion if suitable positive and negative electrode materials are developed. 
 \n \nThe talk will review recent research aiming at the development of neg
 ative electrode materials discussing analogies and differences between lit
 hium and sodium systems. Results will also be presented dealing with syste
 matic studies on electrolytes and formulation and assembly/performance of 
 laboratory full Na-ion cells.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre
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