ERC Consolidator Grant #772873
Prof. Alejandro A. Franco

Webinar Series

WEBINAR SERIES 2023

You are cordially invited to attend the  4rd International Battery Manufacturing Days - Webinar Series, which will be held online between September 11th and September 15th. The webinars will only take place in the afternoons, from 1:30 PM to 4:50 PM CET, except on Wednesday, when it will start at 3:10 PM. You can register and find more information here.

This is the forth edition of this scientific event that has been organized annually since 2020, within the context of the outreach activities of the ERC ARTISTIC Project. The ARTISTIC PROJECT is an innovative and multi-disciplinary initiative funded by the European Research Council and is mainly devoted at improving the efficiency of the current electrode fabrication process while ensuring that rechargeable battery technologies with emerging chemistries become a reality.

This event is free for everyone, including speakers and attendees. As in previous years, the program will feature presentations from world-class battery scientists, as well as members of the ARTISTIC team. These presentations will cover a wide range of topics, including the introduction of new battery manufacturing models and a live demonstration of the recently upgraded ARTISTIC online services. This is a unique opportunity to learn about the latest advances in battery manufacturing and to network with leading experts in the field.

Confirmed invited speakers include Prof. William Chueh (Stanford University, USA), Dr. Margret Wohflart Mehrens (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie - und Wasserstoff - Forschung Baden-Württemberg, ZSW, Germany), Dr. Weihan Li (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Dr. Scott Roberts (Sandia National Laboratories, USA), Dr. Monica Marinescu (Imperial College London, UK), Dr. Sigita Trabesinger (Paul Scherrer Institut, PSI, Switzerland), Dr. Marine Reynaud (CIC energiGUNE, Spain) and Dr. Mona Faraji Niri (Imperial College London, UK).

The speakers from the ARTISTIC team include Prof. Alejandro A. Franco (ARTISTIC project PI, Université de Picardie Jules Verne), Dr. Diego Galvez, Dr. Diana Zapata, Dr. Franco Zanotto, Jiahui Xu, Marc Duquesnoy, Chaoyue Liu and Mohammed Al-Abdali.

The detailed program of the ARTISTIC webinar 2023 is available here. Keep in mind that each webinar session requires a different registration.

WEBINAR SERIES 2022

You are very welcome to attend the 3rd International Battery Manufacturing Days - Webinar Series that will take place online in six different sessions on Monday, June 13 (afternoon session), Tuesday, June 14 (morning and afternoon sessions), Thursday, June 16 (afternoon session) and Friday, June 17 (morning and afternoon sessions), 2022. The morning sessions will start at 10:00 AM (CEST) and end around 12:30 PM (CEST), while the afternoon sessions will start at 2:00 PM (CEST) and end around 5:20 PM (CEST). You can find the program with the details of each one of the six webinar sessions here.

This is the third edition of this scientific event that has been organized before, both in the years 2020 and 2021, within the context of the outreach activities of the ARTISTIC project, an innovative and multi-disciplinary initiative funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and that is mainly devoted at improving the efficiency of the current electrode fabrication process and ensuring that rechargeable battery technologies with emerging chemistries become a reality. The 2020 and 2021 versions of this webinar were followed by 1700+ persons from all over the world, who have always provided excellent feedback when evaluating this event. The recorded presentations of the 2020 and 2021 versions of the webinar can be found below.

This event is free of charge for both speakers and attendees. As in previous editions, the program brings together presentations from world-class battery scientists along with presentations from various members of the ARTISTIC team. These presentations, that will include the introduction of new battery manufacturing models and a live demonstration of the recently upgraded ARTISTIC online services, will allow you to get an overview of the latest contributions derived from the work carried out within the project during the past year. Do not miss the opportunity and register to attend this live event (some of the talks and discussions might not be recorded).

Confirmed invited speakers include Prof. Richard Braatz (MIT, USA), Dr. Javier Carrasco (CIC Energigune, Spain), Dr. Isidora Cekic-Laskovic (FZ Jülich, Germany), Dr. Simon Clark (SINTEF Industry, Norway), Dr. Sam Cooper (Imperial College London, UK), Prof. Juergen Janek (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany), Prof. Arno Kwade (TU Braunschweig, Germany), Prof. Matt McDowell (Georgia Tech, USA), Prof. Partha Mukherjee (Purdue University, USA), Dr. Scott Roberts (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) and Dr. Claire Villevieille​ (LEPMI, France).

The speakers from the ARTISTIC team include Prof. Alejandro A. Franco (ARTISTIC project PI, Université de Picardie Jules Verne), Dr. Alain Ngandjong, Jiahui Xu, Chaoyue Liu, Dr. Franco Zanotto, Mohammed Al-Abdali, Dr. Diana Zapata Dominguez, Marc Duquesnoy and Dr. Fernando Caro.

The detailed program of the ARTISTIC webinar 2022 is available here. To follow the various sessions of the webinar you just need to complete the free registration with your email address here. Keep in mind that each one of the six webinar session requires a different registration.

WEBINAR SERIES 2021

You are the welcome to participate in the 2nd International Battery Manufacturing Days - Webinar Series, taking place every day from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM (CEST), from 21st to 25th of June 2021.

This is the 2021 edition of the International Battery Manufacturing Days – Webinar Series that we have organized for the first time in 2020 within the context of the ARTISTIC Project dealing with battery manufacturing modeling and characterization, lead by Prof. Alejandro A. Franco and funded by the European Research Council. Last year event was a great success: the Webinar Series had 650+ registrants from all over the World and excellent feedback from attendees.

Free of charge, this Webinar Series is devoted to battery scientists and engineers, stakeholders as well as to students interested in the energy field. It aims at creating a forum of discussion about the links between battery manufacturing process and electrode properties, encompassing both (physical and machine learning) modeling and experimental approaches. The agenda combines talks given by the ARTISTIC project team members and invited lectures given by recognized battery scientists from Europe and North America.

After having introduced the online App "Data Explorer" in 2020, this year the ARTISTIC project team members will present the ARTISTIC latest works and will introduce the "Online Manufacturing Digital Twin", an online service which will allow users to launch battery electrode manufacturing simulations from Internet, to analyze and download the calculation results, among others, everything free of charge. Check the Program and register here

Confirmed invited speakers include Prof. Shirley Meng (University of California San Diego), Dr. Scott Roberts (Sandia National Lab), Dr. Sam Cooper (Imperial College of London), Elixabete Ayerbe (CIDETEC Energy Storage), Dr. Donal Finegan (NREL), Prof. Martin Bazant (MIT), Prof. Sebastian Thiede (University of Twente), Prof. Paul Shearing (UCL), Prof. Arnulf Latz (DLR), Prof. Bernard Lestriez (IMN), Dr. Margret Wohlfahrt-Mehrens (ZSW) and Dr. Yinghui Yin (SAFT Batteries).

From the ARTISTIC project side, speakers include Prof. Alejandro A. Franco (ARTISTIC project PI, Université de Picardie Jules Verne), Dr. Alain Ngandjong, Mehdi Chouchane, Teo Lombardo, Abbos Shodiev, Jiahui Xu, Chaoyue Liu, Marc Duquesnoy, Dr. Oier Arcelus and Dr. Fernando Caro.

The presentations from the "ARTISTIC Project Webinar Series 2021 - 2nd International Battery Manufacturing Days" are now available below via videos. Please note that the presentation from Dr. Yinghui Yin is not available due to confidential results, and presentations from Prof. Shirley Meng, Prof. Alejandro A. Franco (Friday) will be made available soon.

  • Prof. Alejandro A. Franco - Digital Twin for Accelerated Battery Manufacturing Optimization: Latest Progresses within the ARTISTIC Project [Monday]. Date : 06/21/2021
  • Dr. Sam Cooper - Powder to power: Designing manufacturable electrode microstructures using machine learning. Date : 06/21/202
  • Marc Duquesnoy - Machine Learning-Based Assessment of the Impact of the Manufacturing Process on Battery Electrode Heterogeneity. Date : 06/21/2021
  • Abbos Shodiev - Insight on electrolyte infiltration of lithium ion battery electrodes by means of a 3D lattice Boltzmann model. Date : 06/21/2021.
  • Prof. Shirley Meng - Materials Science Perspective on Scalable Manufacturing and Recycling of Solid State Electrolytes. Date : 06/21/2021.
  • Dr. Alain Ngandjong - Electrode manufacturing simulations using coarse grained molecular dynamics and discrete element method. Date : 06/22/2021.
  • Dr. Margret Wohlfahrt-Mehrens - Manufacturing of electrodes with high areal capacity. Date : 06/22/2021.
  • Jiahui Xu - Useuful tips for electrode preparation and microstructure characterization. Date : 06/22/2021.
  • Prof. Sebastian Thiede - Digitalisation and sustainability in battery manufacturing: interdependencies and synergies . Date : 06/22/2021
  • Dr. Scott Roberts - Mesoscale Mechanics: Simulating the Role of Stress on Electrode Electrochemical Performance. Date : 06/22/2021.
  • Teo Lombardo - Heterogeneous electrode mesostructures through physics-based modelling. Date : 06/23/2021
  • Prof. Arnulf Latz - Manufacturing electrode architectures for fast charging batteries. Date 06/23/2021
  • Mehdi Chouchane - Free ARTISTIC Web App for battery component analysis: demonstration and applications. Date : 06/23/2021.
  • Dr. Donal Finegan - Structure-Function-Degradation relations in Batteries: Insights from microstructure resolved simulations and theory based modeling. Date : 06/23/2021.
  • Chaoyue Liu - Electrochemistry and mechanics modeling of graphite/silicon composite electrodes. Date : 06/24/2021.
  • Elixabete Ayerbe - Electrochemistry and mechanics modeling of graphite/silicon composite electrodes. Date : 06/24/2021.
  • Dr. Oier Arcelus - Machine Learning based prediction of the electrolyte infiltration process in electrodes. Date : 06/24/2021.
  • Dr. Yinghui Yin - An overview of process modeling for LIB R&I: challenges and opportunities. Date : 06/24/2021.

Not available.

  • Prof. Martin Bazant - Learning battery physics from image data. Date : 06/24/2021.
  • Prof. Bernard Lestriez - Silicon-based negative electrodes ageing, a big challenge for numerical simulations. Date : 06/25/2021.
  • Dr. Fernando Caro - Battery manufacturing simulations from Internet: demonstration of the newest ARTISTIC free online services. Date : 06/25/2021.
  • Prof. Paul Shearing - Imaging and Modelling of Microstructure in Li Batteries. Date : 06/25/2021.
  • Prof. Alejandro A. Franco - Using ARTISTIC models through Augmented Reality interfaces in battery gigafactories. Date : 06/25/2021.

Available soon ...

WEBINAR SERIES 2020

On the week of June, 29th 2020, we have organized the ARTISTIC Project Webinar Series :  "First Battery Manufacturing Days". This webinar series aimed to develop a forum of discussion about the links between battery manufacturing process and electrode properties, encompassing both modeling and experimental approaches.  Free of charge, this Webinar Series was devoted to battery scientists and engineers as well as to students interested in the energy field. The schedule combined talks given by the ARTISTIC project members and invited talks given by active battery scientists from Europe and North America. In this occasion, the ARTISTIC project members presented their latest works and introduced the first version of the "Data Explorer", an interactive Web App which allow users to have access and reuse the project database. The invited speakers covered a wide diversity of linked topics, such as battery aqueous processing, autonomous discovery of materials, electrode microstructure-properties links, machine learning generation of electrode microstructures, impedance characterization of porous electrodes and much more ! The detailed program is available here.

The presentations from the "ARTISTIC Project Webinar Series - First Battery Manufacturing Days 2020" are now available below via videos. Please note that the presentation from Dr. Jianlin Li is not available yet due to unpublished results and the presentations from Dr. Arnaud Demortière, Prof. Ulrike Krewer, Dr. Antoni Forner-Cuenca will be made available soon.

  • Prof. Alejandro A. Franco - ARTISTIC Project: Towards a Digital Twin of Lithium Ion Batteries Manufacturing [Monday]. Date : 29/06/2020
  • Dr. Ivano Castelli - How to autonomously design better battery materials and interfaces using Density Functional Theory [Monday]. Date : 29/06/2020
  • Teo Lombardo - Accelerating Battery Manufacturing Optimization Combining Experiments, In Silico Electrodes Generation and Machine Learnin [Monday]. Date : 29/06/2020
  • Dr. Aasutosh Mistry - "Misfits" in Porous Li-ion Electrodes: Secondary Solids and Inhomogeneities [Monday]. Date : 29/06/2020
  • Teo Lombardo - Insight in LIB Slurry through Physical-Based Modelling and Machine Learning: A Twofold Approach [Tuesday]. Date : 30/06/2020
  • Elixabete Ayerbe - DEFACTO: Modelling techniques for cell design, from non-dimensional analysis to advanced Reduced Order Models [Tuesday]. Date : 30/06/2020
  • Dr. Alain Ngandjong - Multiscale Modeling of Lithium Ion Electrodes using CGMD Simulations [Tuesday]. Date : 30/06/2020
  • Dr. Scott Roberts - Electrode Mesoscale Morphology: How 3D Imaging Combined with Predictive Simulation Improves Performance Insight [Tuesday]. Date : 30/06/2020
  • Dr. Emiliano Primo - Rheology in lithium ion battery electrodes formulation [Wednesday]. Date : 01/07/2020
  • Dr. Sam Cooper - Pores for thought: Characterisation and design of battery electrode microstructures using simulation and machine learning [Wednesday]. Date : 01/07/2020
  • Mehdi Chouchane - 3D-Li Ion Battery Modeling thanks to an In house Meshing App [Wednesday]. Date : 01/07/2020
  • Dr. Antoni Forner-Cuenca - Towards Bottom-up Engineered Electrode Microstructures for Redox Flow Batteries [Wednesday]. Date : 01/07/2020

           Available soon.

  • Abbos Shodiev - 4D-resolved physical model for Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy in symmetric cells [Thursday]. Day : 02/07/2020
  • Prof. Miran Gaberscek - Impedance Spectroscopy of Battery Porous Electrodes [Thursday]. Date : 02/07/2020
  • Dr. Arnaud Demortière - 3D investigation of battery electrode architecture using X-ray nano-CT and image processing with deep learning [Thursday]. Date : 02/07/2020   

        Available soon.

  • Prof. Bernard Lestriez - Influence of the electrode microstructure on charge transport and electrochemical performance by coupling nanotomography and numerical simulations [Friday]. Date : 03/07/2020
  • Prof. Ulrike Krewer - Path towards model-based predictive electrode designing: from production effects to optimisation [Friday]. Date : 03/07/2020.             

Available soon.

  • Marc Duquesnoy - ARTISTIC Project Data Explorer Web App [Friday]. Date : 03/07/2020
  • Prof. Alejandro A. Franco - Battery Manufacturing 4.0 (Virtual Reality) & Concluding Remarks [Friday]. Date : 03/07/2020