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Please join us on for a webinar series on battery applications, from extraction and processing of raw materials to quality assurance in the production line, to research and development of new battery designs.
Our panel of scientists will share their expertise and discuss the analytical and material characterization advances made possible with the latest spectroscopy, rheology and extrusion, electron microscopy, image and surface analysis solutions.
Register for the entire series or for the individual talks of your choosing. All presentations will be available on-demand following the event day.
Key learnings:
Gain an understanding of how our analysis and characterization solutions can help you:
- improve your battery research and manufacturing workflow
- reduce your time to results
- embrace green chemistry
- reduce the cost of operations
Battery Value Chain On-Demand Webinars speakers and topics
The webinars below are available for on-demand viewing, at your convenience, upon registration.
Battery manufacturers must prioritize the performance and safety of their product, while complying with industry standards and ensuring the technology of their product is competitive, and operation is profitable. A modern LIMS can support those initiatives while boosting operations and driving quality across the battery manufacturing workflow.
Join our webinar to look at how LIMS can boost the connection from lab-to line and understand the benefits that implementing a LIMS into your battery manufacturing operation can bring.
Tareq Al-Najjar is the Global Strategic Account Executive for Digital Science Solutions at Thermo Fisher Scientific, focused on the Energy sector. Tareq has extensive experience identifying, establishing, and expanding market/product presence in the oil, gas, and energy arenas. With his most recent experience as the VP of International Business Development/Investor Relations at Vacom Systems LLC from 2015 – 2022, Tareq joined the Thermo Fisher Scientific team in February 2022 to bring his expertise into the LIMS sector. Tareq has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Utah and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business.
The raw materials demand for lithium-ion battery production can only be met by recovering valuable materials from used batteries and production scrap. EDXRF and infrared spectroscopy are easy-to-use and reliable tools to determine the elemental and molecular composition at different stages of the recycling process, no matter if the samples come from a solid, powder or liquid stream.
Christina Drathen is the product manager for the ARL XRF spectrometers at Thermo Fisher Scientific. The products include both benchtop and floor standing EDXRF and WDXRF instruments for research and industry. Christina has over 10+ years’ experience with X-ray analytical tools. Following a post-doc at the European Synchrotron in France, Christina moved to the analytical instrument manufacturing industry, where she worked as application specialist and product manager.
Christina holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Shailesh has over 15 years of experience in Vibrational spectroscopy. He has served as Application specialist and Sales Manager in various region of Europe and has helped to implement Raman, IR and NIR spectroscopy in Pharma/Biopharma, Chemical and Food and Agri sectors.
He is currently working as Applications manager (Vibrational Spectroscopy) for EMEA region.
Thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) coupled with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is a powerful tool for deformulation analysis of materials. When applied to battery analysis, TGA-IR is a valuable technique for understanding battery performance and failures. The Thermo Scientific OMNIC Mercury TGA software tools enable you to uncover the answers you need quickly and reliably with ease.
FTIR gas analysis helps to analyze LiB breakdown failures due to mechanical failure, overheating, or overvoltage. Electrolyte break-down products such as HF may be analyzed directly as they evolve, without sample collection/pre-treatment. Learn how the Thermo Fisher Scientific gas analysis solution meets European regulatory standards for smoke toxicity/safety standards.
Dr. Lena Woodis is the Associate Product Manager for research FTIR at Thermo Fisher Scientific, primarily supporting the Nicolet iS50 and Nicolet iS50R high-end research products. Lena has over 15 years of experience in chemical instrumentation and vibrational spectroscopy.
She holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, for which she developed ultrafast coherent multidimensional spectroscopic techniques. Following graduate study, Lena continued in academia for 10+ years as a chemistry professor prior to transitioning to product management.
Jay Roberts is a product manager in the FTIR spectroscopy business with Thermo Fisher Scientific, based in Madison, Wisconsin. His area of expertise is gas-phase spectroscopy, where he helps to develop dedicated analyzers for a wide variety of applications such as combustion emissions and contaminant analysis in ultra-pure specialty gases.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Kalamazoo College (Michigan) and has 20+ years of experience in analytical chemistry and chemometrics.
Twin-screw extruders provide a continuous compounding technology with improved scalability, less space and labor requirement, and offering a broader range of material shear compared to the conventional planetary mixers. The screw design holds the secret to adjusting the shear forces applied to the material during compounding. Twin-screw extruders can deliver higher dispersion quality and the stronger shear forces allow for solvent reduction and even dry electrode compounding. The latter gained great interest because it tremendously reduces the energy required in electrode manufacturing conventionally consumed for drying.
The electrode pastes’ viscosity varies strongly within the broad range of shear velocity applied to it during mixing, storage, and coating. The paste rheology does not only need to be tailored to achieve the right flow behavior under the different processing conditions but serves also as a fingerprint for quality control. Small changes in solid content, particle size distribution, agglomeration and additives can be made visible with a rotational rheometer rendering it an establishes quality control tool in paste production.
Annika Völp, Dr.-Ing is an Application Specialist with Thermo Fisher Scientific focusing on the extrusion of polymers and twin-screw compounding of battery materials. Annika received her Dr. -Ing from the Institute for Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany. During her Ph.D. studies, she investigated the structure and rheology of foams.
Annika also has an undergraduate degree in Bioengineering from KIT.
The performance of a battery is linked to the chemistry of the cathode, and is tightly controlled during production. We will show how X-ray fluorescence and Raman can be used for rapid quality control in an growing production environment.
Christina Drathen is the product manager for the ARL XRF spectrometers at Thermo Fisher Scientific. The products include both benchtop and floor standing EDXRF and WDXRF instruments for research and industry. Christina has over 10+ years’ experience with X-ray analytical tools. Following a post-doc at the European Synchrotron in France, Christina moved to the analytical instrument manufacturing industry, where she worked as application specialist and product manager.
Christina holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Sudhir Dahal is Product Manager of research Raman products at Thermo Fisher Scientific. The products include Raman microscopes and benchtop Raman spectrometers. He has worked with several spectroscopy techniques in the industry and has over 7 years of experience. He has a PhD from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), where he researched and collaborated on developing novel spectroscopy-based technique for brain tumor cell detection.
His everyday responsibilities include, but are not limited to, market research for product development and improvement, training support engineers and users, producing scientific literatures, researching new products and applications, representing Thermo Fisher Scientific at conferences, and promoting the products through various marketing campaigns.
With battery demand increasing globally the need for improved performance and cost savings is also on the rise. Novel materials and configurations are essential to meet the needs of next generation platforms making batteries faster lighter and cheaper. Raman and FTIR spectroscopy can provide insight into electrolyte performance, graphene and graphite structures, and electrode coatings ensuring the user gets answers quickly and easily.
This webinar will be helpful for engineers and scientists working in battery research or anyone interested in understanding what vibrational spectroscopy can do to accelerate their materials research.
Dr. Lena Woodis is the Associate Product Manager for research FTIR at Thermo Fisher Scientific, primarily supporting the Nicolet iS50 and Nicolet iS50R high-end research products. Lena has over 15 years of experience in chemical instrumentation and vibrational spectroscopy.
She holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, for which she developed ultrafast coherent multidimensional spectroscopic techniques. Following graduate study, Lena continued in academia for 10+ years as a chemistry professor prior to transitioning to product management.
To go through the hurdles for building a reliable and cost-effective battery, it is crucial to build fundamental understandings of different parts of a battery at microscopy level. Techniques such Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), DualBeam (FIB-SEM) lamella preparation and subsequent TEM analysis have always been the key steps to unlock atomic resolution for materials science studies. However, due to the air and moisture sensitivity associated with various battery components (Li metal, SEI layer, Solid electrolyte), it used to be a very challenging task to keep sample integrity during the workflow, especially during sample transfer between different instruments.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has recently introduced several Inert Gas Sample Transfer workflows which keeps the battery component at its original state and therefore helps to unveil the real mechanism behind next gen batteries. In this webinar, we will be focusing on introducing the new IGST workflows and how that will benefit cutting edge battery research and also on FA/QC in battery production.
Letian Li holds a PhD in Materials Science and has more than 10 years’ experience on electron microscopy applications. He is currently Market Development Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific, focusing on electron microscopy workflows and solutions for battery materials.
With the change to electric vehicles, the demand for Lithium-ion batteries is increasing dramatically. Both new and existing lithium mines and salars are looking to increase the efficiency of their operations to maximize the recovery of lithium, whilst keeping cost under control.
Learn how spectroscopic techniques such as X-ray fluorescence, FTIR, Raman and near-IR are used for process and quality control in mining operations and what benefits it offers compared to conventional wet-chemistry techniques.
Christina Drathen is the product manager for the ARL XRF spectrometers at Thermo Fisher Scientific. The products include both benchtop and floor standing EDXRF and WDXRF instruments for research and industry. Christina has over 10+ years’ experience with X-ray analytical tools. Following a post-doc at the European Synchrotron in France, Christina moved to the analytical instrument manufacturing industry, where she worked as application specialist and product manager.
Christina holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Sudhir Dahal is Product Manager of research Raman products at Thermo Fisher Scientific. The products include Raman microscopes and benchtop Raman spectrometers. He has worked with several spectroscopy techniques in the industry and has over 7 years of experience. He has a PhD from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), where he researched and collaborated on developing novel spectroscopy-based technique for brain tumor cell detection.
His everyday responsibilities include, but are not limited to, market research for product development and improvement, training support engineers and users, producing scientific literatures, researching new products and applications, representing Thermo Fisher Scientific at conferences, and promoting the products through various marketing campaigns.
Shailesh has over 15 years of experience in Vibrational spectroscopy. He has served as Application specialist and Sales Manager in various region of Europe and has helped to implement Raman, IR and NIR spectroscopy in Pharma/Biopharma, Chemical and Food and Agri sectors.
He is currently working as Applications manager (Vibrational Spectroscopy) for EMEA region.
Gangue control is a critical component in optimizing a processing plant’s performance. Real time analysis of gangue elements in slurry enables the optimization of additional rates of gangue depressants. This process control strategy allows mineral processing plants to optimize the recovery of valuable minerals, while maintaining final product quality. This webcast will explain key considerations for real-time analysis of gangue including critical streams to measure, elements of interest, analysis cycle times, plant layout and process control considerations.
Garry Noble has over 20 years of PGNAA experience at Thermo Fisher Scientific and understands the implementation of technology in process control applications. He has an extensive background in physics, allowing him to properly assess difficult applications and how PGNAA can provide solutions to some of the most demanding process control applications for mining and minerals applications.
Electrode coating defects can greatly affect battery performance and safety, and if not caught early, defects such as non-uniformity, scratches and voids can result in costly downstream failures. The use of in-line metrology systems during the electrode manufacturing process ensures non-conforming materials do not proceed to cell assembly. In this webcast we will discuss defect detection in electrode coating production and the important sensor characteristics which are needed to properly identify coating defects.
Chris Burnett studied Physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA/USA and has held various positions at Thermo Fisher Scientific such as Director of Sensor Development and Manager of Systems Integration and Systems Production within the Flat Sheet Gauging business.
With over 25 years of experience, he currently helps drive solutions for the battery industry in his current role as Senior Manager, Applications.
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