ELFT HÍRADÓ

[Bottyán László <bottyan.laszlo AT wigner.mta.hu>]

Dear Collegues, 

We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming webinar series
organized by the Budapest Neutron Centre on the history, science,
development and new trends in the field of Li-ion batteries, including
the important contributions from neutron scattering techniques all over
the world. 

The webnars will be given biweekly by local and international experts in
English, starting on next Wednesday, 10 June, 2020, 14:00.  Details on
the seminars and on how to join the zoom video sessions up to 30 minutes
 before the sessions are available in the news section of the BNC home
page at https://www.bnc.hu.  Please join the presentation and the
discussions following the webinar. 

With best regards,  BNC Management 

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BNC webinar series on Li-ion batteries 

The future is electric. In the massive migration from fossil to
electric, the availability of capable batteries is a major issue. The
need for efficient batteries - for transport, power and industrial
applications - is growing fast and at an increasing pace. This global
movement presents a huge  challenge to scientists and research
institutions. 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 [1] was awarded jointly to John B.
Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the
development of lithium-ion batteries."  Li-ion is a fairly new comer in
the battery technology. But, at present, it is the best candidate of
general storage of electricity.  Although the cost per cycle is by now
the most beneficial for this type of battery technology, the energy
density, and its present direct cost as compared to the fossil
counterparts leave an enormously wide ground for future development. 

Neutrons, provided by research reactors or spallation neutron sources,
constitute a unique probe to study materials. Beside the methodical
benefits, such large-scale facilities provide excellence-based,
cost-effective access to the cutting edge analytical technologies and
sample environments. 

In seeking its optimum and proportional role in this global process, the
Centre for Energy Research Budapest and one of its institutes, the
Budapest Neutron Centre in particular starts a series of webinars on the
science behind the developments in renewable energy. The subject of the
first webinars is Lithium-ion batteries. 

BNC Webinar #1:  10 June, 2020   14:00-14:45   Link to Zoom meeting [2] 

Laszlo Peter [3] (Wigner RCP, Budapest): 
_      Li-ion batteries: An introduction  - Electrochemistry, structure
& function_ 

Webinar #2:  24 June, 2020   14:00-14:45+discussion (CEST)   Link to
Zoom meeting 

Robert Kun (Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest): 
      _Li-ion batteries: New trends_ 

Webinar #3:  8 July, 2020     14:00-14:45+discussion (CEST)   Link to
Zoom meeting 

Mihail Avdeev (Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, JINR, Dubna,
Russia): 
      _Li-ion batteries: Neutron scattering studies_ 

Links:
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[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2019/summary/
[2] https://www.bnc.hu/zoom_link_Li_batt
[3] https://wigner.hu/en/infopages/peter.laszlo