Following an unprecedented surge in lithium-ion batteries, battery research and production have entered a new phase. The goal is ambitious: to guarantee the safety and sustainability of batteries, enhance performance, and scale up production.
Join Bruker's NMR experts to explore and discuss how NMR spectroscopy offers a range of analytical capabilities to assist battery production and future innovations.
Overview of the Webinar
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a useful analytical method for determining the chemical and physical characteristics of matter. Just as the analytical challenges across the battery value chain are diverse, so are the various iterations of this technique.
This webinar will introduce the fundamental characteristics of the various kinds of NMR instruments (Fourier 80 benchtop, AVANCE floorstanding, and TD-NMR benchtop).
It will also cover typical techniques relevant to battery materials, followed by insightful application examples focusing on liquid and pasty samples such as brines, electrolytes, and slurries.
What to Expect
This webinar will help broaden your knowledge of how modern NMR technology can benefit battery research and development.
Bruker’s experts will highlight essential battery-related materials and discuss how NMR spectroscopy can be applied to identify and quantify components in mixtures, attain insights into chemical processes, or deduce physical properties vital for economic production and battery performance.
Key Learning Topics
- Explore how the Bruker Fourier 80 Benchtop NMR spectrometer can easily and rapidly quantify lithium and other elements.
- Discover how to perform quality control of electrolytes using the Bruker Fourier 80 Benchtop NMR spectrometer.
- Obtain insights into ion mobility and electrolyte aging methods through an AVANCE floor-standing NMR spectrometer investigation.
- Understand how TD-NMR analysis offers information on the physical properties of slurries in the context of anode-coating processes.
Who Should Attend
- Battery manufacturers
- Research and development institutions
- Academic organizations
- Material science organizations
- Electrochemical and analytical chemistry organizations
- Testing laboratories involved in battery research and development
- Government organizations involved in renewable energy and sustainability
- Investors attracted to the battery market
- Battery technology engineers and experts
Speakers
Andrea Steck joined BBIO Germany in 2010, initially contributing to contract services. She then stepped into food profiling development, acting as Quality Manager (ISO-17025), and is currently responsible for supporting, developing, and progressing AIC-DEV projects as Principal Scientist.
Andrea holds a PhD in Chemistry from TU Munich. Her extensive background includes experience in NMR pulse sequence development and structure elucidation (Berne, Switzerland). She also led an analytical (NMR/MS/IR) laboratory in the big pharmaceutical industry (Vienna, Austria).
She then became a part of Bruker Austria as Manager Pursuant to Trade Law, overseeing contract services and customer acquisition.
Marcio Fernando Cobo has a background in physics and earned his doctoral degree from the Institute of Physics of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His expertise lies in developing diverse methods in high-resolution (Solid and Liquid State) NMR and time-domain NMR.
Marcio joined Bruker as a Method Developer in 2013. He focuses on developing innovative solutions, from polymer characterization and food quality control to narcotics profiling.
Bruno became a part of Bruker in 2021, developing methods related to R&D, authenticity, and quality control based on NMR and TD-NMR technology for Clinical, Applied, and Industrial markets.
In addition to this, he is also applying novel and optimized NMR pulse sequences and parameter sets for TopSpin and Minispec platforms, working closely with product managers and stakeholders to form innovative NMR-based approaches and processing algorithms for data analysis.
He holds a Ph.D. in relaxation and diffusion NMR and a Physics Master’s degree with an emphasis on scientific instrumentation.