Prof. David Mecerreyes will give a talk on  “Innovative Polymers for Next-Generation Batteries”

Speaker : Prof. David Meserreyes (Ikerbasque Research Professor at POLYMAT ‐ University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain)

All are welcomed to join. Please register here (contact form) if you wish to attend the lecture.

Short Description:

Lithium ion batteries are part of our modern life being present in daily used objects such as mobile phones, tablets, computers, watches, sport accessories, electric scooters or cars. The next generation batteries would need the development of innovative polymers that help to improve their performance in terms of power density, cyclability, raw materials availability, low weight, printability, flexibility, sustainability or security. In this seminar, I will review our recent developments in the area of redox polymers and ionic conducting polymer electrolytes.^1-4 This includes the development of innovative binders for electrodes, polymer electrolytes and redox polymer nanoparticles. All these new polymer developments are leading to new battery technologies such as metal-polymer batteries (Li, Na), organic batteries, polymer-air and organic redox-flow batteries which are expected to complement in the future the actual commercial batteries.

Keywords: ionic polymers, polymer electrolytes, redox polymers, batteries

References

[1] “Redox Polymers for Energy and Nanomedicine” RSC Book 2021, ISBN 978-1-78801-871-5

[2] D. Mecerreyes, N. Casado and L. Porcarelli, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/macp.201900490

[3] X. Wang, R. Kerr, F. Chen, N. Goujon, J.M. Pringle, D. Mecerreyes, M. Forsyth, P.C. Howlett, Advanced Materials 2020,32, 18, 1905219 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201905219

[4] N. Goujon, N. Casado, N. Patil, R. Marcilla, D. Mecerreyes, Progress in Polymer Science 2021, 122, 101449 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2021.101449

Speaker Bio:

PhD in polymer chemistry by the University of Liege (Belgium) in 1998. Then he carried out a post-doctoral stay at IBM Almaden Research Center and Stanford University in California. Back to Spain he worked for 10 years in CIDETEC.  In 2011 he became Ikerbasque Research Professor at POLYMAT (www.polymat.eu), University of the Basque Country. Since then he coordinates the Innovative Polymers Group and acts as scientific vice-director of POLYMAT. His actual research interests include the synthesis of innovative polymers for energy and bioelectronics. In particular his team is dedicated to polymer chemistry of innovative redox polymers, poly(ionic liquid)s, iongels and   conducting polymers. He is co-author of more than 350 scientific articles. Co-founder of the start-up company POLYKEY.