4. Place: Online (※ A Zoom address will be sent to your email and mobile
number before the lecture begins.)
5. Abstract
Recently,
growing demands for energy storage system are present, due to the rapid
replacement of conventional fossil fuel with renewable energy. Different
rechargeable batteries (especially lithium-ion batteries) are currently being
developed, but there are still many rooms for further optimization, in
particular the electrode materials and components of them. Nanostructures have
recently garnered much attention due to their merits over bulk particles in 1)
ionic/electronic transport, 2) pore size/distribution, and 3) more active sites
for ion storage. Amongst various synthetic methods, electrospinning is one of
the most scalable methods to produce one-dimensional nanostructures, which can
be directly used for the electrode and separator/electrolyte. In this lecture,
we will discuss together on what electrospinning is, what it is known for, and
how it can be employed for applications in rechargeable batteries.