Batteries are an integral component of the energy transition from fossil fuels to energy sustainability, playing a critical role in the storage and accessibility of energy.
It is important to understand their impact on the performance and longevity of the devices in which they are used. Safety, service life, performance, and cost are essential to ensuring the success of battery technologies and need to be addressed every step of the way.
With a finite usable life, it is imperative that efficient and environmentally sound processes are developed to re-use the valuable metals batteries contain, thus reducing the need for raw material extraction and enabling a battery circular economy. Efficient recovery of metals from black mass, the black powder derived from crushed and shredded spent batteries, is dependent on our detailed understanding of the composition of the material.
Attend this webinar to discover:
- Multiscale Correlative Inspection Workflows: Learn how to enhance your understanding of battery systems, increase cost-effectiveness, accelerate product development, and streamline quality control processes.
- XRM Characterization of Black Mass: Explore how X-ray microscopy (XRM) reveals detailed insights into the chemistry and morphology of recyclable components.
- Impact of Charging Cycles: Understand how charging cycles affect battery performance, leading to improved safety measures and cost reductions.
- In Situ Battery Process Analysis: Gain insights into how various processes impact batteries in situ, including thermal management and the effects of changing conditions.
- Advanced X-ray Microscopy Techniques: Discover cutting-edge X-ray microscopy methods that accelerate research and decision-making in energy materials and industrial applications.
Who should attend this event?
X-ray microscopists; central imaging laboratory managers; researchers in materials and energy materials sciences; failure analysis; quality control; mining; battery R&D managers; upstream battery and energy researchers; researchers of energy material recycling.
About the event speakers:
Dr. Stephen T. Kelly is the Market Sector Manager for Energy Materials at ZEISS RMS. He has been working in the energy materials space for over 20 years and has extensive experience with materials characterization and fabrication across the energy materials space.
He holds a doctorate from Stanford University in Materials Science and Engineering, and held post-doc positions at both Johns Hopkins University and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories. He has been with ZEISS RMS since 2014.
Dr. Herminso Villaraga-Gomez is a product manager for X-ray quality solutions and global sector marketing for 3D X-ray microscopy at ZEISS. He received his Ph.D. in Optical Science and Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
He has more than 10 years of experience in the field and has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and conference papers. He is an active member of several professional associations that promote the advancement of engineering and applied physics.
Dr. Ria Mitchell is an Applications Development Engineer in Raw Materials-Industrial Research at ZEISS Microscopy in the UK. Her practical knowledge of microscopy, particularly 3D microscopy, has enabled her to develop interdisciplinary skills across a range of subject areas using microscopy, especially in multi-scale and multi-dimensional correlative imaging.
Ria completed her Ph.D. in Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, before undertaking postdocs at The Natural History Museum in London and Swansea University. She held an Experimental Officer role at the University of Sheffield, operating the ZEISS Versa 620 X-ray Microscope (XRM), before joining ZEISS.