Name: Swiss Battery Days 2025
Start: 2025-08-25T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-08-27T16:30:00+02:00

PSI, Empa, and the Swiss Battery Association iBAT jointly organize the Swiss Battery Days taking place on 25-27 of August 2025 at ETH Zurich.

The aim of the event is to provide young researchers, active in the field of battery materials and cell manufacturing, a platform to present their results and to connect to renowned battery researchers from Europe and beyond. The event offers as well a unique opportunity to strengthen and expand the network among and to the Swiss battery community.

The scope of the event ranges from the synthesis and characterisation of battery materials to their integration into electrodes and cells, including topics related to cell manufacturing and characterisation. As always, the last day of the conference is dedicated to the industry relevant topics.

Program/Schedule

Find the complete programm under https://indico.psi.ch/event/17190/timetable/#20250825

Monday, 25.08.2025

12:00	Lunch and Registration
13:00	Opening of SWISS BATTERY DAYS 2025: Welcome Invited Talk: Prof. Clare Grey
13:50	Rekha Narayan 'Synchronous Surface Stabilization and In-situ Remediation of Lithium Residuals to Suppress Gassing from Ni-rich Cathodes: An Operando Gas Evolution Study' Leon Skarjan 'Towards high-sensitivity isotope-enhanced imaging of lithium battery interphases by neutron capture methodology'
14:30	Break
15:10	Invited Talk: Prof. Birger Horstmann 'Chemo-Mechanical SEI Model for Silicon Electrodes' Mingliang Liu 'Li2S Growth Regulation at the Solid-Liquid Interface in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries'
16:10	YeonJu Kim 'A Strategy to Prevent Fluorine-Induced Transition Metal Dissolution in Lithium- Ion Batteries'
16:30	Poster Session and Apero
19:00	End

Thuesday, 26.08.2025

09:00	Opening of the day 2
09:05	Invited Talk: Prof. Jeff Sakamoto 'Mechano‐electrochemical phenomena at ceramic electrolyte interfaces' Linfeng Xu 'Operando X-ray Computed Tomography of Lithium Plating and Stripping in Zero-Excess Lithium Metal Solid-State Batteries' Julian F. Baumgärtner 'A Highly Conductive Halospinel Cathode for All-Solid-State Batteries'
10:25	Break
11:05	Joel Casella 'Thin-film Me-Li-F conversion cathodes for high-energy solid-state batteries' Nicolas Rospars 'Lithium Metal Anodes For Next Generation Batteries'
11:45	Photo
12:00	Lunch
13:20	Invited Talk: Prof. Ivana Hasa 'On the Role of Morphological Changes as the Origin of Improved Cycling Stability of Sn-based Anodes for Sodium-ion Batteries
14:00	Maryam Chattabi 'Development and characterization of a high-performance layered oxide for sodium-ion batteries' Julita Tabor 'Optimizing Aqueous Zn Metal Batteries: Understanding Co-Salt Effects on Zn²⁺ Transference and Deposition' Shruti Hariyani 'Interplay between Stereochemically Active Lone Pair Repulsions, Sigma Hole Interactions, and Delocalized Redox Processes in Topochemical Fluoride-Ion Insertion'
15:00	Break
15:40	Invited Talk: Dr. Margret Wohlfahrt-Mehrens Pei Sun 'Solvent-Free Electrode Manufacturing for Next-Generation Batteries: A DEM Study on Extrusion Process' Edouard Quérel 'Industrial dry coating of NMC battery electrodes enabled by continuous extrusion mixing'
17:00	Guillaume Matthews 'Unravelling the origin of particle fracture in solvent-free electrodes for Li-ion batteries' Carlos Antônio Rufino Júnior 'Data-Driven State of Charge Estimation in Residential Battery Storage Systems Using Ensemble and Recurrent Machine Learning Models'' Exhibitor pitches
18:10	Travel to restaurant
19:00	Conference dinner

Wedneday, 27.08.2025

09:00	Opening of the day 3
09:05	Xiaohan Wu (Porsche Consulting) 'Gamechanger Solid-State-Battery: Impact of a breakthrough on the powertrain portfolio 2040' Aleš Štefančič (Belenos Clean Power Holding) 'Investigation of interfacial reactions and end-of-life of Li metal batteries by utilizing post-mortem analysis'' Tian Liu (FPT Motorenforschung,) 'Advancing Battery Module for Commercial Vehicle Applications'
10:25	Coffee Break
11:05	Andreas Schiller (Fluxim AG) 'Physics-Based Modelling of Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy for the Characterization of Lithium-Ion Batteries' Roman Buchheit (Math2Market) 'Why analyzing and understanding the microstructure of a battery is important – and how digital experiments can contribute'
11:45	Poster award 2025
12:00	Lunch break
13:20	Richard Bouveret (Blue Solutions) 'Battery industrial scale-up challenges and business trends in Europe and beyond' Laura Höltschi (Leclanché) 'Large-scale production of PFAS-free water-based binder electrodes for Li-ion cells' Huikyong Kim (Imerys Graphite and Carbon) 'Conductive Additives for Lithium Ion Batteries'	Swiss Battery Association iBAT session
14:40	Coffee Break
15:20	Giulio Ferraresi (Hilti) 'Emerging Battery Innovation Driving the Future of Power Tools Laurent Zinck (Inolith) 'Non-flammable Inorganic Electrolyte with high voltage stability for Li-ion batteries' Jiri Nohava (Antop Paar) 'Mechanical Characterization of Lithium-Ion Battery Electrodes: Fast and Reliable Methods for Adhesion and Compression Assessment'	Swiss Battery Association iBAT session
16:20	Conference Wrap-up