Lithium Batteries

Basic elements for energy storage and conversion.- Lithium batteries.- Principle of intercalation.- Reliability of the rigid-band model in lithium intercalation compounds.- Cathode materials with 2-dimensional structure.- Cathode materials with monoatomic ions in a 3-D framework.- PO4-based compounds as cathode materials.- Fluoro-polyanionic compounds.- Disordered compounds.- Negative electrodes for Li-ion batteries.- Electrolytes for lithium batteries.- Nanotechnology.- Electrochemical measurements in solids.- Safety aspects of Li-ion batteries.- Technology of the Li-ion batteries.

Dr. Christian M. Julien received his engineer degree in Physics from Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Paris and obtained his PhD in materials science from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. He has 35 years of research experience in the field of solid state ionics and materials for energy storage and conversion, and, has developed lithium microbatteries. He is especially well known for his contributions on vibrational spectroscopy of lithium intercalation compounds. He was director of NATO Advanced Study Institutes on intercalation compounds and materials for batteries. Presently, he joints the laboratory PHENIX at Université Pierre et Marie Curie where he is investigating cathode and anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Julien is an active member of The Electrochemical Society and international editorial boards and editor of Journal of Materials.

Dr. Alain Mauger attended the University of Paris where he graduated in solid state physics, obtained the PhD degree in 1974, and Doctorat d'État in 1980. His work focussed on the theory of impurities in semi-metals, electronic structure of solids, and magnetic semiconductors. He left Paris to spend a year at the University of California, Irvine where he continued his work on magnetic semiconductors and optical properties of liquid crystals in collaboration with Professor D.L. Mills, and shared his time between the University of Paris and the University of California up to 1985. He went on to do research at the University of Paris 07 on spin glasses and statistical physics. Since 1992, he has been in university Paris 06, leading different groups on solid state and complex matter physics, before joining IMPMC in 2007 to work on the materials science for Li-ion batteries.

Dr. Ashok Vijh is Maître-de-recherche at the Institut de Recherche d'Hydro-Québec and, concurrently, invited Professor at the INRS of Université du Québec. Elected to The Royal

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