Webinars

KIM & CHANG: Korean Battery Recycling Industry in IP Perspective

The explosive growth of the EV battery market means that a huge number of batteries will become unusable within the next 10 years. Tackling the challenge of recycling lithium-ion batteries is critical, both for environmental and economic reasons, and also for reorganizing the global supply chain to become more stable and sustainable. The government sector also is strongly pushing to promote effective battery recycling.

Patent trends in battery recycling technology are an important predictor of future market trends. Our internal patent landscape analysis suggests that Chinese companies currently have a huge lead in patents, but U.S. and European companies are rapidly shrinking the gap, while Korean companies are relative latecomers but are actively seeking to become major players as well.

This webinar will focus on the following key topics:

• Current status and forecast of Battery Recycling business
• IP landscape analysis in battery recycling field (focusing on Korean companies)

A PDF copy of the presentation will be sent to all attendees after the event.

Presenters
Inchan Andrew Kwon – Foreign Attorney at Kim & Chang
Sung-Eun Kim – Patent Attorney at Kim & Chang

Inchan Andrew Kwon is a US-trained and licensed patent attorney who advises technology, chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech clients regarding patent prosecution and patent disputes in Korea, as well as related legal issues including trade secrets, licensing, regulatory compliance, and international trade.

Sung-Eun Kim has been involved in evaluating intellectual property protection and in providing strategic advice to clients, specializing in the areas of materials for electronics, such as secondary batteries and OLED materials, polymer science, and fiber science.

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(FREE) KORVUS TECHNOLOGY: Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) in Solid-State Battery Development – A Novel and Cost-Effective Approach

Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) is a method widely used across industry to deposit a very thin layer of a material on a surface to alter its properties. The technique has been utilized in various areas of battery research, including solid-state batteries.

A key challenge with solid state batteries is the high impedance at the interface between the cathode and the electrolyte. PVD is ideally suited to develop model systems to study and look to improve this problem.

PVD also allows high throughput screening of different materials to accelerate new composition developments with enhanced electrochemical properties.

The HEX series of PVD instruments has some key benefits for battery research. It is a cost-effective solution that is mounted below an existing glovebox, allowing continued use of the glovebox for other purposes and easy access to the vacuum chamber for modification and cleaning. The highly modular nature allows configuration changes without specialist tools, enabling changes in research direction without additional costs.

This webinar will focus on the following key topics:

• PVD techniques are a valuable tool in a wide spectrum of battery research
• Develop model systems to study interfacial phenomena
• High throughput screening of different materials to accelerate new composition developments with enhanced electrochemical properties
• Introduction to the HEX series of PVD instrument and its unique advantages for research

A PDF copy of the presentation will be sent to all attendees after the event.

Presenter
Dr. Jessica Stoner – Product Manager

Jess is the Product Manager for the HEX series at Korvus Technology. She manages all technical aspects of the HEX both behind the scenes and in direct contact with users new and old. Before joining Korvus in 2021, she worked as a researcher at the Materials Innovation Factory at the University of Liverpool.

Korvus Technology is a proud sponsor of this event.

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B-SCIENCE.NET: R&D Pathways Towards High-Energy Liquid, Semi-Solid and Solid Li-Ion Batteries

With our unique machine learning (ML)-supported innovation and patent analysis approach, we have made in-depth studies of emerging high energy positive & negative active materials, and how they can be combined with liquid, semi-solid or solid electrolytes to obtain improved performance / safety / cost profiles in EVs, consumer electronics, IoT, etc.

This presentation will illustrate R&D pathways that are being pursued by key commercial players, identifying opportunities and risks of varying approaches.

This webinar will focus on the following key topics:

• High energy positive and negative electrode active materials
• Combination with liquid, semi-solid and solid electrolytes
• Opportunities and risks of different material permutations
• Key commercial players pursuing varying approaches

A PDF copy of the presentation will be sent to all attendees after the event.

Presenter
Pirmin Ulmann – Co-Founder & CEO, B-Science.net

Pirmin Ulmann is co-founder and CEO of b-science.net, a battery innovation & patent monitoring service that is based on a novel machine learning approach. He obtained a diploma in chemistry from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2004, and a PhD from Northwestern University (USA) in 2009. Thereafter, he was a JSPS Foreign Fellow at the University of Tokyo (Japan). From 2010 to 2016, while working at a major battery materials manufacturer in Switzerland, he was a co-inventor of 7 patent families on lithium-ion batteries. He holds the credential Stanford Certified Project Manager (SCPM), and has co-authored scientific publications with over 1,800 citations.

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(FREE) VOLTAIQ: Manufacturing Analytics to Improve Battery Quality and Accelerate Factory Ramp

The battery industry is racing to develop new manufacturing capacity as the EV and energy storage industries continue to outpace market expectations. Companies across the battery ecosystem have begun building new factories while facing the reality of long yield ramp times, supply chain immaturity, and a shortage of expertise — the typical gigafactory will take several years & billions in investment before reaching profitability.

In this webinar, we’ll review the industry’s first software solution that enables battery manufacturers to rapidly understand cell quality and the link to upstream production and materials characteristics. This insight, when paired with the ability to control and improve production quality at unprecedented speeds, helps accelerate production ramp and improve overall cell quality.

This webinar will focus on the following key topics:

• Challenges around battery manufacturing scale-up and quality across industries
• Understanding parallels from the semiconductor industry
• Accelerating production ramp and improving yield, while reducing costs
• Leveraging AI and ML capabilities to surface quality problems ASAP
• How a fully integrated analytics solution can speed up battery manufacturing

A PDF copy of the presentation will be sent to all attendees after the event.

Presenter
Dr. Tal Sholklapper – Co-Founder & CEO at Voltaiq

Tal has an extensive record of success as a cleantech engineer and entrepreneur. Prior to founding Voltaiq, he worked as the lead engineer on a DOE ARPA-E funded project at the CUNY Energy Institute, developing an ultra low-cost grid-scale battery. Before joining CUNY, Tal co-founded Point Source Power, a low cost fuel-cell startup based on technology he developed while at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley, where he also did his graduate work in Materials Science and Engineering. As a Materials Postdoctoral Fellow at LBNL, he successfully led the transfer of lab-scale technology to industry partners.

Voltaiq is a proud sponsor of this event.

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(FREE) tesa tape: Solving Dielectric and Thermal Challenges in EV Batteries with Adhesive Tapes

The use of electric vehicles in North America is on the rise, and the need for comprehensive safety measures for their batteries is essential. This talk will explore dielectric and thermal protection with pressure sensitive adhesive tapes as a key component of electric vehicle battery safety. We will discuss the benefits of such tapes, their basic composition, and how they can reduce the risk of failure due to electrical or thermal overloads. In addition, we will investigate how these tapes can be combined with other materials like aerogel, thermal ceramics, mica, foam, and more. Finally, we will consider some of the potential challenges and solutions associated with implementing pressure sensitive adhesive tapes in electric vehicle battery safety.

This webinar will focus on the following key topics:

• Understanding the challenges of dielectric and thermal protection in E-mobility
• Learning how to address those challenges with different materials
• Flame retardant mounting and encapsulation tapes
• Emergency Thermal Propagation Venting tape solution
• Puncture, abrasion, and high voltage resistant tapes for robust electrical insulation

A PDF copy of the presentation will be sent to all attendees after the event.

Presenters
Dr. Fabian Brockmeyer – Lab Manager Automotive at tesa tape North America
Nico Eddelbuettel – Market Segment Manager ePowertrain at tesa tape North America
Elliot Sedlecky – Business Development Manager at tesa tape North America

tesa tape is a proud sponsor of this event.

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(FREE) NUVATION ENERGY: Battery Management System Impacts on Energy Storage

Battery management systems impact the utility, effectiveness, and life of an energy storage system. Passive balancing is less expensive than active balancing, but weaker cells or modules may need to be replaced near the end of the ESS’s lifespan. Active balancing transfers energy from stronger to weaker cells, but at a higher system cost and design complexity.

System down time is associated with both approaches and carries such a high opportunity cost that innovations in this area may be of greater importance than the type of balancing being employed.

Join Nuvation Energy CEO Michael Worry for an exploration of the current state of the art in battery cell balancing, and how BMS innovations will impact the future of stationary energy storage.

This webinar will focus on the following key topics:

• A stationary ESS orientation on battery management
• Understanding balancing-related down time
• Comparing active and passive balancing
• Innovations in battery management

A PDF copy of the presentation will be sent to all attendees after the event.

Presenter
Michael Worry – CEO, Nuvation Energy

Michael Worry founded Nuvation in 1997 and has grown the company into a thriving energy storage and engineering services firm with offices in Sunnyvale, California and Waterloo, Ontario Canada. He is the CEO and CTO of Nuvation Energy, a provider of energy controls and battery management solutions for large-scale energy storage. Part of Nuvation’s success is Michael still enjoys being a hands-on engineer and occasionally joins energy storage system installations at client sites.

Nuvation Energy is a proud sponsor of this event.

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