
And I’ll talk about climate change and renewable energy.
VIMEO TOAU JOHN PLUS
But first let me thank the US Department of Energy here who supported my work for the last 30 plus years. So, what I want to do is tell you a little bit about the lithium battery, where it started and where it’s at now. But I hope to see you all next year at the IMLB meeting in Sydney. I always like visiting Australia so it was a big disappointment when this pandemic came around and stopped this trip and several others I had in mind. Stanley Whittingham: Can you hear me now? And I’m very pleased to welcome him to speak to you all today. At present he is also the Professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, the State University of New York. But for many of you he is also the 2019 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, together with Akira Yoshino and John B. Stanley Whittingham, Professor and Director of the Northeastern Centre for Chemical Energy Storage, which is a US Department of Energy Frontier Research Centre. We’re very pleased and proud to be able to welcome to you today M. Today though, our speaker will be speaking to us about battery materials and their role in the development of energy storage as we know it today. But more recently we’ve now put together a consortia of our business units to work into what’s really critical, recycling. We also have interest in the first use of batteries, second use, repurposing of batteries. We’re also very interested in also how we can do packaging of batteries and how they can be used and then deployed to the grid, or even within a home, or electric vehicle concept. We work from everything in mining and refining with our Minerals and Resources colleagues, into battery materials, particularly the value adding of those mineral materials into things such as lithium carbonate, graphite, manganese, cobalt, nickel, and the like.Īnd then we also work into the area of batteries and assembly thereof – so looking at anodes, cathodes, unique electrolytes, and more recently cell manufacture and testing. So, today CSIRO we have a range of battery activities which is really important towards the battery value chain. Whoops got the wrong… oh it’s gone pear shaped. Over to you Adam.ĭr Adam Best: Thank you very much Katherine. To help set the scene for today’s presentation I’d like to hand over to Dr Adam Best who will talk about CSIRO’s battery value chain activities. We now have over 4,000 alumni members and organise a wide range of events, activities, and opportunities for them to stay in touch or get involved. We’re continuing his approach today, working with RACI, ATSI, and developing our CSIRO Alumni Network to encourage greater connection across the innovation ecosystem. He believed in the need for active interaction between Australian research institutes. Throughout his career he was known as a great organiser with the ability to get people together and encourage collaboration. He went on to become the Chief of the CSIRO Division of Organic Chemistry, and later became the Chairman of the CSIRO Executive. Robert Price made a significant contribution to the growth and development of chemistry in Australia, and to the development of public sector research.



These lectures bring industry, CSIRO, and university scientists together.
VIMEO TOAU JOHN SERIES
This lecture series was set up in 1990 by the CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers in tribute to Sir Robert’s influence on organic chemistry. I’d like to begin this morning by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land that we’re meeting on today and to pay my respects to their Elders… to their Elders, past and present. As the executive sponsor of the CSIRO Alumni Network I would like to give a special welcome to our alumni members in the audience today. I lead the People Team here at CSIRO and I’m so pleased to be here today to welcome you to our 2021 Sir Robert Price lecture.
