European Workshop on Battery Interfaces:
High-Resolution Techniques and Multiscale Modelling
The multiple physical and chemical processes occurring at the electrode-electrolyte interfaces are instrumental to the performance and lifetime of rechargeable batteries. This workshop aims to bring together high-resolution experimental techniques and multiscale modelling methods to probe multi-physics interactions and electrochemical reactions at the battery interfaces. We welcome contributions with a focus on developing or using high spatial and/or temporal resolution characterization techniques to study different types of complex physical phenomena, such as operando and in-situ methods (e.g., TEM, XRD imaging, PEEM, HAXPES, SIMS imaging, X-ray tomography, SPM, IBA) for probing dynamic physical processes, interfacial chemistry, and tracking morphological changes. Combining advanced characterisation with multi-scale theory and computational modelling from atomistic to continuum scale, will provide fundamental understandings and potential innovative solutions, to push the development of emerging battery technologies.
The workshop contributors should address the basic scientific issues, clarify the phenomena occurring at battery interfaces, develop advanced characterisation/modelling methods for understanding battery interfaces for addressing the challenges at the battery interfaces.
This workshop will showcase the research progress and scientific findings from two Horizon Europe funded projects under the Battery 2030+ programme – OPERA (https://horizon-opera.eu) which focus on the anode-electrolyte interface of the zero-excess solid-state batteries, and OPINCHARGE (https://www.opincharge.eu/) which focus on unravelling the dynamic interface processes and charge transport in Li-ion batteries. We welcome contributions on the state-of-the-art characterization and modelling tools for different battery chemistries (e.g., Li-ion, Li-S, Li-Air, Li metal, solid-state, Na-ion, K-ion, Zn-ion, etc), to create synergy between different techniques and applications.
Dates and Location:
3rd – 4th April 2025,
Rectorate of the University of Cordoba, Spain
Av. de Medina Azahara, 5, Poniente Sur, 14071 Córdoba, Spain.
37.88477525167789, -4.788499293767016
Committee Details:
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Conference Chairs: Celia Polop (UAM), Santhana Eswara (LIST)
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Scientific Committee: Qiong Cai (UoS), Elixabete Ayerbe (CIDETEC), Daniel Rettenwander (NTNU), Peter Siffalovic (CEMEA), Rafael Trócoli Jiménez (UdC)
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Organizing Committee: Gustavo de Miguel (UdC), Celia Polop (UAM), Stephan Junker (EUG), Yuliya Kharchenko (PEDAL), Santhana Eswara (LIST), Michael J. U. Foerster (ALBA)
Keynote lectures:
Professor Jeff Sakamoto, University of California, USA
Dr. Claire Villevielle, LEPMI. Grenoble, France
Invited talks:
Ainara Aguadero, ICMM-CSIC/Imperial College London, UK
Erik Berg, Uppsala University, Sweden
Alexandre Roelens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Programme
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Thursday 03 April |
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08:30-09:00 |
Registration |
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09:00-09:15 |
Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop María José Polo Gomez (UCO)
Patrik Johansson (Chalmers)
Celia Polop and Santhana Eswara (LIST)
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09:15-10:00 Keynote |
First Morning Session Keynote Talk, Chair: Santhana Eswara Moorthy Claire Villevielle, Operando monitoring of batteries: Understanding transport limitations |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Second Morning Session Chair: Rafael Trócoli |
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10:30-10:50 |
Hung Quoc Nguyen, Juraj Todt, Dora Zalka, Alexey Maximenko, Dragos Stoian, Norbert Schell, Wouter van Beek, Jozef Keckes, and Daniel Rettenwander, Studying solid-state batteries during operation using X-rays |
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10:50-11:10 |
Akarsh Sudheendra Bharadwaj, Andrés Miranda Martínez, Santhana Eswara Moorthy, Tim Dahmen, Sampling and Reconstruction Algorithms for low-dose high-speed Acquisition of FIB-SEM/SIMS Images |
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11:10-11:30 |
Valentina Diolaiti, Marco Ricci, Alfredo Andreoli, Fabio Rossi, Leonardo Sollazzo, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, and Donato Vincenzi, Preliminary investigation of interface evolution in Ge-based lithium ion batteries |
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11:30-11:50 |
Oliver Lohrberg, Jonas Schlaier, Kristian Nikolowski, Alexander Michaelis, Operando Electrochemical Dilatometry to Study Li-Deposition in liquid and solid electrolyte Systems |
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11:50-12:10 |
S. Trabesinger, N.E. Asres, P. Boillat, S. Eswara, J.M. Lopez Del Amo, S. Sharma, L. Skarjan, M. Strobl, X. Zhang, Isotope-Enhanced Battery Interface Characterization |
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12:10-12:30 |
Jesús M. Blázquez-Moreno, Álvaro Bonilla, Ana L. Páez Jerez, Almudena Benítez, Alvaro Y. Tesio, Álvaro Caballero, Using X-ray nanotomography to understand the improved performance of Li-S battery with binders based on cheese shell waste |
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12:30-14:30 |
Group photo and Lunch |
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First Afternoon Session Chair: Peter Siffalovic |
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14:30-15:00 Invited |
Erik Berg, Neeha Gogoi, Robin Lundström, Tim Melin, Kristina Edström, Revisiting Interfacial Reaction Mechanisms of Li-ion Electrolyte Additives with Operando Characterization |
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15:00-15:20 |
H.-G. Steinrück, X. Ge, D. Kopljar, B. Larrarte-Lizarralde, Á. Doñoro, A. Blázquez, L. Haneke, E. Esen, E. Ayerbe, M. Nojabaee, Experimental charge transport characteristics for interface and interphase modelling |
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15:20-15:40 |
A. Galindo, N. Xavier, N. Maldonado, J. Díaz-Sánchez, C. Morante, G. García, C. Polop, Q. Cai and E. Vasco, Lithiation behavior of metal components for Li-ion batteries by ion beam analysis |
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15:40-16:00 |
Eva del Campo Ortiz, Marek Marcinek, Grazyna Zofia Zukowska, Laurence J. Hardwick, Alex R. Neale, Operando Raman Microscopy for LiNiO2 electrodes: Data processes advances with PRISMA app |
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Second Afternoon Session |
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16:30-17:00 Invited |
Alexandre Roelens, Annick Hubin, Mesfin Haile Mamm, Multiscale Modelling of Electrode/Electrolyte Interface in All-Solid-State Battery |
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17:00-17:20 |
Lukas Köbbing, Manuel Lopez, Diego del Olmo, Beñat Larrarte-Lizarralde, Elixabete Ayerbe, Arnulf Latz, and Birger Horstmann, Interface and Interphase Modelling Approaches Within OPINCHARGE |
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17:20-17:40 |
Rafael Klee, An Approach to Studying Interfaces in Sodium-Ion Batteries (SIBs): Application of Characterization Techniques |
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17:40-18:00 |
Neubi F. Xavier Jr, and Qiong Cai, Interlayer Metals for Zero-Excess Solid-state Batteries: A Multiscale Approach Combining Machine Learning Potentials and DFT |
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18:00-18:20 |
Antonio J. Fernández Romero, V. García Caballero, M. Cano, Florencio Santos, José Abad, María Vila, Germán R. Castro, Antonio Urbina, In situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of Zn/Bi2O3 electrodes prior to and during discharge of Zn-air batteries: Influence on ZnO deposition |
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18:30-20:00 |
Poster Session |
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20:30 |
Dinner |
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Friday 04 April |
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09:00-09:45 Keynote |
First Morning Session Keynote Talk, Chair: Celia Polop Jeff Sakamoto, Next Generation Electrochemical Technologies Enabled by Solid-State Electrolytes |
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09:45-10:15 |
Coffee Break |
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Second Morning Session Chair: Daniel Rettenwander |
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10:15-10:45 Invited |
A. Aguadero, E. Querel, I. Seymour, R. Brugge, A. Cavallaro, F. Pesci, Nick Williams, Understanding interface chemistries to optimize ion dynamics in all solid-state batteries |
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10:45-11:05 |
R. Trócoli, V. Carnero, A. Licari, A. Lopez, A. Fernandez, C. Frontera, A.P. Black, R. Houdeville, G. C. B. Alexander, I. Roy, P. Parajuli, R.F. Klie, M. E. Arroyo-de Dompablo, S. Vincent, J. M. Garcia Lastra, J. Cabana, M.R. Palacín, Operando synchrotron X-ray diffraction for multivalent cations intercalation |
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11:05-11:25 |
Peter Siffalovic, Erik Simon, Eva Schlautmann, Karol Vesgo, Simon Micky, Juraj Todt, Peter Nadazdy, Poongodi Ayyanusamy, Jozef Keckes, and Wolfgang Zeier, Monitoring Kinetics of Structural Changes in Solid-State Batteries |
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11:25-11:45 |
Rajmohan Rajendiran, Ivan T. Lucas, Real-time monitoring of transition metal dissolution and cross contamination in operating Lithium-ion batteries |
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11:45-12:05 |
J. Díaz-Sánchez, P. Hernández-Martín, E.G. Michel, C. Polop, N. Kwiatek-Maroszek, M.A. Niño, M. Foerster, H.R. Bratlie, D. Rettenwander, R. Anton, A. Lowack and K. Nikolowski, Nucleation and early-stage growth of Li and Na anodes in ZESSBs at the nanoscale by synchrotron-PEEM and AFM |
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12:05-12:25 |
W. Corts, F. Bertram, S. Frücht, X. Ge, M. Lippmann, T. Matar, H.-G. Steinrück, H. Stöcker and T. Weigel, A Fast-X-Ray Reflectivity Setup for Sub-Second Operando Studies of Electrochemical Interfaces |
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12:25-12:40 |
Closing Remarks |
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Afternoon visit of the Mosque for interested participants |
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UAM – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
LIST – Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology
UoS – University of Surrey
CIDETEC – Fundación Cidetec
NTNU – Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
CEMEA – Centrum pre využitie pokročilých materiálov SAV, v. v. i.
UCO – Universidad de Córdoba
EUG – Eurogrant GmbH
PEDAL – PEDAL Consulting
ALBA – Consorcio para la Construcción, Equipamiento y Explotación del Laboratorio de Luz Sincrotrón
Recommendations for accommodation and travel to the Workshop in Córdoba, Spain
We are pleased to share recommendations for accommodation and travel arrangements for the upcoming workshop, which will take place at the Rectorate building of the University of Córdoba.
Hotels
Sercotel Córdoba Medina Azahara
Distance: Just 1 minute on foot from the conference hall.
Key Features: Convenient location near the train station, excellent price-quality ratio.
Recommendation: Book early to secure the best rates.
Hotel Website: https://www.
AC Hotel by Marriott Córdoba
Distance: 5 minutes on foot from the conference hall.
Key Features: Modern and luxurious, situated close to the train station.
Recommendation: Ideal for those seeking a more upscale experience.
Hotel Website: https://www.marriott.
Hotel Soho Boutique Córdoba
Distance: 5 minutes on foot from the conference hall.
Key Features: A relatively new hotel located near the train station.
Hotel Website: https://www.sohohoteles.com/
The conference will be held at the Rectorate building of the University of Córdoba. For directions, please refer to this Google Maps link.
Travel to Córdoba
Option 1: Via Málaga Airport
Upon arrival, take a local train or taxi (10–15 minutes) to Málaga Central Station.
From there, the high-speed train to Córdoba takes approximately 45 minutes.
Option 2: Via Seville Airport
Take a bus or taxi to Seville Central Station.
The high-speed train to Córdoba from Seville takes about 35 minutes.
Train Tickets
Tickets for high-speed trains can be purchased through the official Renfe website: https://www.renfe.com/es/en
We hope these recommendations help make your trip to Córdoba smooth and enjoyable.
Rectorate of the University of Cordoba, Spain
Rectorate of the University of Cordoba
Av. de Medina Azahara, 5, Poniente Sur, 14071 Córdoba, Spain.
37.88477525167789, -4.788499293767016