Speaker: Patrice Simon, Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatie

Panelist: Haixia (Alice) Zhang, Peking University

Time: 20:00 pm, March 23, 2023, GMT+8

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Abstract:

Growing demand for fast charging electrochemical energy storage devices with long cycle lifetimes for portable electronics has led to a desire for alternatives to current battery systems, which store energy via slow, diffusion-limited faradaic reactions. Electrochemical Capacitors (ECs), also called supercapacitors could fit these demands as they can be fully charged within minutes with almost unlimited cyclability, but they suffer from limited energy density. In this talk, I will give an overview of the research work we achieved on capacitive (porous carbon) and high-rate redox (2-Dimmensionnal) materials, and show how the use/development of advanced electrochemical techniques can help in the development of materials with improved performance.

Biography:

Patrice Simon is Distinguished Professor of Material Science at the Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier. He has served as director of the Alistore European Research Institute (www.alistore.eu) dedicated to Li-ion battery research (2008-2018).

He is currently leading, on behalf of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the National Strategy of Acceleration on Batteries (PEPR Batteries), a national program launched in January 2023. He is also Deputy Director of the French network on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E, www.energie-rs2e.com) since its creation in 2011, that gathers together about 20 Labs and 15 companies working on batteries and supercapacitors.

His research activities focus on the fundamental understanding of electrochemical processes occurring at the material / electrolyte interfaces in electrodes for electrochemical energy storage devices (batteries and electrochemical capacitors). He published about 250 papers (>70,000 citations), more than 10 book chapters and gave about 100 invited conferences.

He received several awards for his scientific contribution including Grants from the European Research Council (2012, 2020), the RSC Horizon Prize (2021), the Conway Prize in Electrochemistry from ISE (2018), the International RussNanoprize (2015), the Silver Medal from the CNRS (2015). He is Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry (2017), Honorary Professor at Sichuan University (2019), Honorary Professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (2019), visiting Professor at Tokyo University of Technology since 2015 one month a year (interrupted by Covid). He is Highly Cited Researcher since 2016 (Clarivate Analytics).

Patrice Simon is member of the French Academy of Sciences (2019) and French Academy of Technology (2018), the European Academy of Sciences (2019), and former member of the Institut Universitaire de France Junior (2007) and Senior (2017).

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