Event
CREB 2022 Bi-Annual Spring Meeting
Friday, June 10, 2022
12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Kay Boardrooms, KEB, UMD College Park
James Short
jshort@umd.edu
https://creb.umd.edu/
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The United States depends on unreliable foreign sources for lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and manganese. Development of a domestic extreme battery supply chain is a national security enabler. Discovery of alternative materials can be another national security enabler.
SUPPLY CHAIN OVERVIEW
- 12:00 PM — Welcome: Dr. Eric Wachsman/Chunsheng Wang/Jim Short, UMD
- 12:10 — Private sector perspective on securing the supply chain, TBD
- 12:25 — Mr. Eric Shields, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Strategic Defense & Federal initiatives to secure the battery supply chain
BATTERY WORKFORCE TRAINING
- 12:40 — Mr. Chris Jannuzzi, ECS, Educational resources to meet the workforce training needs of the battery industry
ANODES
- 1:00 — Mr. Rob Anstey, GDI, 100% porous silicon anode-based pouch cell with extreme high energy, fast charging, and safety
- 1:20 — Dr. Eric Wachsman, UMD, Enabling High-Rate Lithium Metal Anodes by Tailored Structures and Interfaces
ELECTROLYTES
- 1:40 — Dr. Peter Kofinas, UMD
- 2:00 — Dr. Wesley Henderson, Army Research Laboratory, Electrolyte materials as alternatives to lithium
BREAK: 2:20-2:45
CATHODES
- 2:45 — Dr. Arumugam Manthiram, University of Texas, Battery chemistries for relieving supply chain issues of today, tomorrow and day-after-tomorrow
- 3:05 — Dr. Shailesh Upreti, CEO, C4V, Connecting Mines, Molecules & Machines: A True Domestic Supply Chain & Home Grown Gigafactories
- 3:25 — Dr. Xilin Chen, Saft America, Inc. High Safety, High Energy and High power LiVPO4F Battery
DOMESTIC EXTREME BATTERY MANUFACTURING DEVELOPMENTS & PERSPECTIVES
- 3:45 — Mr. Robert Privette, Umicore Sustainable Materials/USA, Cathode supply chain considerations with focus on North America
- 4:05 — Mr. Ricky Hanna, Ion Storage Systems, Start-up Perspective on reducing reliance on Chinese manufacturing and Li, Ni & Co resource constraints
BATTERY CELL DOMESTIC SUPPLY CHAIN
- 4:25 — TBD
4:45 — CLOSING REMARKS: Drs. Wesley Henderson (ARL), Eric Wachsman, Jim Short (UMD)
Follow this link to the CREB website for more information!
