2018 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2018

Session

R-PLEN1 Plenary Session | Session Plénière - Jeff Dahn, Dalhousie University

R-PLEN1

14 Jun 2018, 09:05

McCain Ondaatji Hall (cap. 500) (Dalhousie University)

Conveners

R-PLEN1 Plenary Session | Session Plénière - Jeff Dahn, Dalhousie University

• Harm Rotermund (Dalhousie University)

2371. Why do lithium-ion batteries eventually die and what to do about the situation.

Prof. Jeff Dahn (Dalhousie University)

14/06/2018, 09:05

Other Sessions or Meetings / Autres séances ou réunions

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier(ère) plénier(ère)

Lithium-ion batteries used in smart phones last several years. However, they must last at least a decade in electric vehicles and many decades in electrical energy storage systems. In this lecture I will explain why Li-ion batteries eventually fail and introduce simple methods we have invented to rank lithium-ion cell lifetime in experiments that only take a few weeks. These simple methods...