The 7th International Symposium on Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion ,mESC-IS 23 was held jointly with INESS 23, i.e. International Conference on Nanomaterials and Advanced Energy storage system. The joint event has taken place ın Mugla Sıtkı Kocman University from 17th to 21 July 2023 . Three circulars were distributed starting from January to May 2023 and submissions were invited in four major activity areas, i) batteries and supercapacitors, ii) fuel/electrolytic cells, and iii) hydrogen for energy storage and transport. The joint event also had special sessions on iv) research methods in batteries and fuel cells and v) prototyping, life assessment and battery recycling.
Batteries & Supercapacitors
- Multivalent ion batteries
- All solid state batteries
- Enhancing the performance of Li-ion batteries
- Li-S batteries
- Na-ion and K-ion batteries
- Aqueous batteries
- Metal-air batteries
- Flow batteries
- Capacitive energy storage
systems
Fuel / Electrolytic Cells
- Electrolysers (Alkaline, PEM, SOEC)
- Electrochemical synthesis of fuels and chemicals
- Enhancing the performance of PEM fuel cells
- Low and intermediate temperature SOFCs
- Direct liquid fuel cells
- Reversible fuel cells
- Novel processing in cell & stack materials
Hydrogen for Energy Storage & Transport
- Hydrogen production via water splitting
- Novel materials for solid-state hydrogen storage
- Dense membranes for hydrogen separation
- Hydrogen compression utilizing metal hydrides
- Electrochemical hydrogen separation and compression
- Materials for hydrogen transport.
Research Methods in Batteries & Fuel cells
- Machine learning in battery and fuel cell research.
- Computational material design for ES &C.
- Combinatorial and high throughput approaches in ES&C
- In-situ/operando techniques in battery and fuel cell research
Prototyping, Life Assessment and Battery Recycling
- Additive manufacturing in batteries and fuel cells
- Prototyping in batteries and fuel cells
- Life assessment and battery degradation
- Battery recycling and active material development
A total of 168papers were accepted for the symposium. Of these 30 were in plenary sessions and 96 were in parallel sessions. Poster session was held on Thursday Afternoon in which a total of 69 posters were presented. Based on the evaluation of session chairs and senior member of mESC-IS&INESS community , the best poster awards were granted to Yiğit Akbaş- ÖzgürDarıcıoğlu (Middle East Technical University ), Maksat Karlykan (Nazarbayev University ) Vitalii Shevchenko (Moscow State University ) and Zeynep Başaran Yilmaz ( Gebze Technical University)
Abstracts/full papers presented at the symposium are avaliable at program link above and will soon be available at Proceedings-mESC-IS 2023. Selected papers from this symposium will be published as a special issue “Advances in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversions” in Materials Research Bulletin.
The event, mESC-IS 23, was made possible with the generous support of several institutions. We ackowledge the support of Mugla Sıtkı Koçman University hosting this event and provision of the facilities which made this event possible. The support of TUBITAK through programmes 2223-B and 2237-A is also gratefully acknowledged. Contributions from IRN-FACES added an additional depth to this symposium and we thank Dr. Fermin Cuevas making this participation possible. We also acknowledge the support of METU, in particular Professor Y. Eren Kalay.
This joint event was made possible with the generous support of several institutions. We, ackowledge the support of Mugla Sıtkı Koçman University hosting this event and provision of the facilities which made this event possible. The support of TUBITAK through programmes 2223-B and 2237-A is also gratefully acknowledged. Contributions from IRN-FACES added an additional depth to this symposium and we thank Dr. Fermin Cuevas making this participation possible. We also acknowledge the support of METU, in particular Professor Y. Eren Kalay.We extend our sincere appreciation to the Provost of Nazarbayev University, Professor Ilesanmi Adesida, for his invaluable support. We also express our gratitude to the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry, Kazakhstan, for their generous support provided through the targeted research program #51763/PCF-MCROAP РК-19 “New materials and devices for defense and aerospace applications”.
We would like to thank Professors Rick Ubic and Won Il Park for the opportunity to publish the selected papers from this symposium as a special issue in Materials Research Bulletin
Finally we thank all session chairs, authors and participants for their valuable contributions.
mESC-IS & INESS Co-chairs
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