Barker's Battery Blog: July 2021

Wednesday 28 July 2021

Sodium-ion Batteries - Roadmap Article from the UK's Faraday Institution (Nexgenna)

Dear All,

The roadmap for sodium-ion batteries has now been published fully open access in JPhys Energy. Please take a look. This excellent article covers all aspects of sodium-ion batteries from basic research to commercialization. Enjoy the read. It was a fantastic team effort - so well done everybody. Feedback would be much appreciated.

Go Sodium!

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7655/ac01ef

Tuesday 20 July 2021

Next Generation Technologies (Energising the UK battery supply chain)

Dear All,

I gave a short talk on Sodium-ion Batteries on July 19, 2021. This was part of a series of webinars organized by the UK's Society of Chemical Industry (SCI).

https://www.soci.org/

https://www.soci.org/events/hq-events/2021/next-generation-technologies-energising-the-uk-battery-supply-chain--part-4

For this workshop, SCI and the Chemistry Council Innovation Committee (CCIC) have organised a program of speakers from both industry and academia to cover the latest developments in technologies within the automotive industry. These talks will be followed by breakout discussions between participants, enabling them to meet others working on these technologies, and discuss what is needed to progress these next generation technologies further in the UK.

Programme:

Welcome and introduction

David Bott, SCI

What’s driving the next generation of batteries?

Prof David Greenwood, University of Warwick

A Short Introduction to (non-aqueous) Na-ion Batteries

Dr Jerry Barker, Faradion

Technology review and equipment study for next-generation Li-ion batteries

Dr Bahareh Yazdani, UKBIC

Barker's Battery Blog

Jerry Barker is currently co-founder and Chief Scientist of Faradion Limited, a UK-based start-up company specializing in next generation Na-ion battery technology. The company has state-of-the-art R&D labs and prototype manufacturing facilities in the UK. Check out the company website here:

http://www.faradion.co.uk/

In May 2019, Jerry was appointed Honorary Professor within the School of Chemistry at the University of St. Andrews.

Jerry Barker also runs an independent technology consultant, specializing in the energy storage sector. He may be contacted here:

jerrybarker@gmail.com

Jerry has worked in the UK, Denmark and the US and has managed materials research labs in Europe and North America. He is currently located in the UK where he has consulted for, and advised a number of battery R&D companies, varying in size from small university startup to global multinational. He has also consulted and advised on solar photovoltaics (PV) where he is widely regarded as a world expert on the electrodeposition of thin film semiconductors for PV and other applications. In his early career Jerry spent time at UCSB where he collaborated with the Nobel prize winners Alan Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa on alkali metal doped polyacetylene.

Jerry has published extensively in the energy storage area (h-index = 56, total number of citations >11,000) and is a named inventor on more than 120 issued US patents. He has appeared as a patent litigation expert witness in Europe and in North America. He has also acted as the due diligence technical expert for a number of VC-backed startup companies. Additional information on Jerry's background may be found at the website:

http://www.jerrybarker.co.uk/

Jerry currently acts as an Expert Panel member for the UK's Faraday Institution and as a Board Member of the UK LiBATT consortium.

The articles and comments posted on this blog will simply be Jerry's own personal opinions. Much of the emphasis will be placed on the recent news stories involving Energy Storage Systems - especially Lithium metal anode, Lithium-ion and Sodium-ion Batteries - and Thin-film Photovoltaics.

Please feel free to add useful comments and suggestions - these will help to keep the discussions alive. I will try to respond to these postings as they are made.

Jerry