As we move forward, batteries with high-energy density and a long life at an affordable cost are needed for electrification of the transportation sector and an efficient utilisation of renewable-energy sources.

This webinar will first highlight the development of oxide cathodes for lithium-ion batteries over the years. Then, it will focus on the challenges and prospects of layered oxide cathodes with high nickel content and low or no cobalt content for lithium-ion batteries. Optimised synthesis and advanced characterisation methodologies to overcome the challenges will be presented.

This webinar presented by Arumugam Manthiram will discuss:

• Recognising the fundamental science behind the development of high-energy density cathodes for lithium-ion batteries in the 1980s.
• Understanding the richness and complexity of layered oxide cathodes for lithium-ion batteries.
• Exposure to a perspective on high-energy, long-life, safe lithium-ion batteries as we march forward.

Arumugam Manthiram is currently the Cockrell Family Regents chair in engineering and director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). He received his PhD in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1981. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford and at UT-Austin with 2019 Chemistry Nobel Laureate John B Goodenough, he became a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT-Austin in 1991.

Manthiram’s research is focused on batteries and fuel cells. He has authored more than 770 journal articles with 59,000 citations and an h-index of 122. He has provided research training to more than 250 students and postdoctoral fellows, including the graduation of 60 PhD students and 26 MS students.

Manthiram is a fellow of the Materials Research Society, The Electrochemical Society, American Ceramic Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, American Association for the Advancement of Science and World Academy of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. He received the university-wide (one per year) Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in 2012; Battery Division Research Award from The Electrochemical Society in 2014; Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2015; Billy and Claude R Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award in 2016; and Da Vinci Award in 2017. He is an elected member of the World Academy of Ceramics. He is a Web of Science highly cited researcher in 2017 and 2018. He served as the chair of the ECS Battery Division from 2010–2012. He founded the ECS UT Austin Student Chapter in 2006 and continues to serve as the faculty advisor.