Lithium-ion batteries are used in everything from phones and laptops to electric cars and electricity grids. The new White Paper from Imperial College London’s Energy Futures Lab and the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering investigates the safety and sustainability of li-ion batteries, exploring ways of reducing their impact on the environment and ensuring they do not pose a danger to the health of workers or users.
Download the paper here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/energy-futures-lab/reports/white-papers/sustainable-batteries/

Speakers:
Dr Laura Lander is a postdoctoral research associate at Imperial College London focusing on the sustainability and techno-economics of Li-ion and next-generation batteries. She has a strong background in the synthesis and structural and electrochemical characterisation of innovative cathode materials for Li- and Na-ion batteries. She has (co-)authored 15 peer-reviewed publications.

Evangelos Kallitsis is a PhD Candidate at Imperial College London. Trained as a Chemical Engineer (MEng, University of Patras, 2017) with a specialisation in Process Systems Engineering (MSc, Imperial College London, 2018), his research combines environmental and techno-economic modelling to study the production, use and recycling of lithium-ion batteries from a life cycle perspective.

Professor Anna Korre is Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Earth Science & Engineering and Co-Director of Energy Futures Lab. Her role is to facilitate interdisciplinary research, education and translation across Imperial College in the field of energy. Anna leads the Minerals Energy and Environmental Engineering Group (MERG) and her own research interests are in the areas of risk and uncertainty assessment and the environmental and life cycle assessment of engineering systems.

Professor Gregory Offer is Professor in Electrochemical Engineering and leads the Electrochemical Science & Engineering Group at Imperial College London. Since 2010, he has worked with multiple industry partners on projects worth over £45.2 million. Greg has also worked as a management consultant and a government advisor. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed journal papers, patents, technical reports and books. He is a co-founder of three battery related start-ups, Cognition Energy Ltd, Breathe Battery Technologies Ltd and About:Energy Ltd.

Professor Amparo Galindo (chair) is Co-Director Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. Her research interests are in the development of statistical mechanical approaches for complex systems, and their application to processes relevant to industry.