Next Generation Batteries and Recycling of Batteries

Next Generation Batteries and Recycling of Batteries

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Professor Madhavi Srinivasan

School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

The demand for higher energy/power densities, low-cost, safe batteries for portable electronics, electric vehicles and grid-scale energy storage is propelling research efforts toward developing new chemistries and battery systems beyond Li-ion. Advanced materials play an important role in charge storage as they provide greater electrode/electrolyte active interface thus enhancing the electron/ion transport. In this regards the talk will cover specific examples of research work on nanostructured electrode materials for advanced lithium-ion batteries, sodium ion batteries, lithium-ion capacitors, and multivalent aqueous ion batteries. The talk will also cover some of the efforts on structural batteries cathodes from materials to cells. Huge demand and consumption of lithium-ion batteries in EV other applications would lead to generation of mountains of spent LIB waste which if left in the landfill will cause irreversible pollution and damage to environment and human health. Spent LIB also contains large amounts of valuable and strategic metals such as Li, Co, Mn, Ni, Cu, Al, Fe in higher concentration than in the respective ores. Hence, recycling and recovery of spent LIB is of importance for both critical metal supply and environmental protection. This talk will also cover opportunities, challenges, and hydrometallurgical techniques for recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries.

Professor Madhavi Srinivasan

Executive Director, ERI@N, Energy Research institute at NTU

Executive Director, NTU Sustainability office

Prof Madhavi is a Professor in School of Materials Science & Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She is Director ERI@N, Energy Research institute and NTU Sustainability office. She is also co-Director of SCARCE (Singapore-CEA alliance for research in Circular economy), a joint lab, in collaboration with French Alternative energies and atomic energy commission (CEA, France) focusing on recycling of e-waste.

Prof Madhavi ‘s research focuses on the circular economy with an emphasis on novel energy storage solutions and recycling of lithium-ion batteries. She focusses on synthesis, fabrication and application of nanoscale materials/architectures in improving the performance of electrochemical energy storage devices such as advanced lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, sodium ion batteries, multivalent aqueous Zn / Al batteries. Her research is also on structural batteries and recycling of lithium ion batteries e-waste by novel hydrometallurgical techniques towards a closed loop approach. Madhavi has published over 370 high impact research papers and has 30 patents. Her research work has been cited worldwide with total citations over 36,473 (Hirch (H)-index =104). She is among an elite group of researchers worldwide who have been recognized for exceptional research performance demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited research papers which rank in the top 1% by citations for field in Web of Science She has secured several industry funded projects both nationally and internationally including Energizer (USA), Arkema (France/USA), Rolls Royce(UK), BMW (Germany), Johnson Matthey (UK), Bosch (Germany), Durapower (Singapore), JNC). She graduated with Masters from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Madras/Chennai, India) and did her PhD at National University of Singapore (Singapore).

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