Electrochemical Energy Storage II: Solid-State Electrolytes and Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces

Presentations

• Electrochemistry toward the Efficient Generation of Energy Materials

  ORAL · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • David S Ginley

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

  Authors

  • David S Ginley

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

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• Field theory for charge transfer kinetics at electrolyte-electrode interface

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Publication: Aditya Shah, Paul Rudnicki, and Jian Qin*. ``Field theory of charge transfer kinetics at a metallic electrode in solvent mixtures.'' In preparation.

  Presenters

  • Aditya Shah

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Aditya Shah

    • Stanford University

  • Paul Rudnicki

    • LBNL

  • Jian Qin

    • Stanford University

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• Abstract Withdrawn

  ORAL · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

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• Cathode-Contact Stability and Li Diffusivity of N-Doped Li₆Zr₂O₇ for All-Solid-State Li-Ion Batteries by First-Principles Density Functional Theory Methods

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Randy Jalem

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  Authors

  • Randy Jalem

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Yoshitaka Tateyama

    • National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

  • Kazunori Takada

    • National Institute of Material Science(NIMS) Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

  • Tetsuya Yamada

    • Shinshu University

  • Katsuya Teshima

    • Shinshu University

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• Investigation of the Conductivity of Some Lithium (Thio)Boracite Materials Using the Allegro Machine Learned Interatomic Potential Package

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Natalie Holzwarth

    • Wake Forest University

  Authors

  • D. Cory Lynch

    • Wake Forest University

  • Natalie Holzwarth

    • Wake Forest University

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• Boosting Ion Transport in LiBO₂ via Defects Induced by Thermal Neutron Irradiation

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: Nguyen, H. M.; Ziemke, C. D.; et al. "Is Thermal-Neutron Irradiation a Possible Approach to Defect Engineering of Advanced Energy Materials for Their Enhanced Ionic Conductivity? Yes, It Is!" Preprint

  Presenters

  • Carson Ziemke

    • University of Missouri - Columbia

  Authors

  • Carson Ziemke

    • University of Missouri - Columbia

  • MANH-HA M NGUYEN

    • University of Missouri

  • Tom W Heitmann

    • University of Missouri
    • University of Missouri Research Reactor

  • John Michel Gahl

    • University of Missouri

  • Yangchuan Xing

    • University of Missouri

  • Carlos Wexler

    • University of Missouri

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• Novel fast Li-ion conductors for solid-state electrolytes from a fine-tuned foundational model

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Tushar Singh Thakur

    • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

  Authors

  • Tushar Singh Thakur

    • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

  • Nicola Marzari

    • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
    • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
    • Paul Scherrer Institute PSI

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• Leveraging Bonding-Sensitive Descriptors with Machine Learning for CO₂​ Hydrogenation Barrier Prediction

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Dominic Alfonso

    • The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)

  Authors

  • Dominic Alfonso

    • The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)

  • Wissam A Saidi

    • National Energy Technology Laboratory

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• Microscopic insights into interfaces formed by Li₁₊ₓAlₓTi₂₋ₓ(PO₄)₃ (LATP) electrolyte and its intermediate phases by ReaxFF Molecular Dynamics simulations

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Publication: [1] Sudeshna Madhual, Kazunori Takada, Randy Jalem*, In preparation.

  Presenters

  • Sudeshna Madhual

    • National Institute of Material Science(NIMS) Japan

  Authors

  • Sudeshna Madhual

    • National Institute of Material Science(NIMS) Japan

  • Kazunori Takada

    • National Institute of Material Science(NIMS) Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

  • Randy Jalem

    • National Institute for Materials Science

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• Physical-Chemical Interfacial Processes Across Graphene-Family Nanomaterials: Interplay of Electronic Structure with Defects and Quantum Capacitance

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: Gupta et al. Sci. Rep. 15, Article number: 19722 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Sanju Gupta

    • University of Georgia

  Authors

  • Sanju Gupta

    • University of Georgia

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• Electronic transport and Electrocatalytic properties of RuO₂ thin films

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Publication: 1. Swapnil Nalawade, Ebenezer Vondee, Mengxin Liu, Ikenna Chris-Okoro, Sheilah Cherono, Dhananjay Kumar, Shyam Aravamudhan, "Role of Oxygen Concentration in Reactive Sputtering of RuO2 Thin Films: Tuning Surface Chemistry for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Performance," Crystals 2025, 15(5), 417; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst15050417
  2. I. Chris-Okoro, S. Cherono, W. Akande, S. Nalawade, M. Liu, C. Martin, V. Craciun, R. S. Kim, J. Mahl, T. Cuk, J. Yano, E. Crumlin, J. D. Schall, S. Aravamudhan, M. D. Mihai, J. Zheng, L. Zhang, G. Hautier, and D. Kumar, "Optical and plasmonic properties of high electron density epitaxial and oxidative controlled titanium nitride thin films," J. Phys. Chem. 2025, 129, 3762-2774; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c06969 (2/02/2025)
  3. B. R. KC, D. Kumar, and B. P. Bastakoti, "Enhancing Electrocatalytic Performance of RuO₂ for Water Splitting: Mechanistic Insights, Strategic Approaches, and Recent Advances" Journal of Physics: Energy, 7, 022001, 2025 DOI 10.1088/2515-7655/adad9f (1/31/2025)
  4. B. R. KC, D. Kumar, and B. P. Bastakoti, "Block copolymer-mediated synthesis of TiO2/RuO2 nanocomposite for efficient oxygen evolution reaction," Journal of Materials Science, 2024, 59, 10193-10206, htps://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-024-09702-5 (6/05/2024).
  5. J. Suntivich, G. Hautier, I. Dabo, E. Crumlin, D. Kumar, and T. Cuk, "Probing intermediate configurations of oxygen evolution catalysis across the light spectrum", Nature Energy, 9, 1191-1198, (2024), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01583-x

  Presenters

  • Dhananjay Kumar

    • North Carolina A&T State University

  Authors

  • Dhananjay Kumar

    • North Carolina A&T State University

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• In situ, dual mode tomography to study Li battery evolution

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Daniel S Hussey

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  Authors

  • Daniel S Hussey

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Jacob M LaManna

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • David Lance Jacobson

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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