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Join Us for the Third Battery2030+ Webinar: Understanding Battery Interfaces Under Nanoscale Confinement
Join us online on 22 January 2026 at 15:00 CET for the next session of the Battery2030+ webinar series, exploring how advanced operando characterisation techniques help scientists better understand electrochemical processes occurring at battery interfaces.
Our project, together with OPERA and ULTRABAT, is introducing this initiative under the framework of Battery2030+. The series, titled “Time and Length-Scale Operando Bridging Techniques to Study Battery Interfaces,” is designed to familiarise scientists with experimental methods that make it possible to study interfacial processes in real time.
Understanding Battery Interfaces at the Nanoscale
Battery interfaces are the regions where charge storage reactions occur and where performance, lifetime, and stability are ultimately defined. These interfaces are often highly confined at the nanoscale, meaning that ions, solvents, and electrode materials interact in ways that differ significantly from bulk behaviour.
Capturing these effects during battery operation remains one of the central challenges in electrochemical research.
Operando characterisation techniques provide a powerful solution by enabling direct observation of structural, mechanical, and chemical changes as batteries cycle. By combining multiple techniques, researchers can link nanoscale phenomena to macroscopic battery behaviour.
Webinar Format
Each webinar combines two complementary parts:
1️⃣ A short tutorial introducing one or more experimental techniques, followed by a brief break.
2️⃣ A research talk demonstrating how these techniques are applied in current studies.
This format supports both knowledge transfer and lively discussion among researchers from different disciplines.
Upcoming Webinar: How Nanoscale Confinement Shapes Electrochemical Interfaces
The upcoming session will feature:
Simon Fleischmann (Helmholtz Institute Ulm – HIU)
Topic: “How nanoscale confinement influences electrochemical interfaces and charge storage processes.”
In this webinar, the speaker will present recent research showing how confined environments at electrode interfaces affect ion solvation, charge-transfer reactions, and interfacial resistance.
Using operando methods such as X-ray diffraction, electrochemical dilatometry, electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance measurements, and impedance spectroscopy, the talk will demonstrate how co-intercalation, desolvation, and interface evolution can be followed directly during battery cycling.
The seminar aims to provide a mechanistic understanding of how confinement-driven effects shape reaction kinetics and interfacial stability in layered and nanostructured electrode materials.
Building Collaboration Through Knowledge
This webinar series represents a joint effort by OPINCHARGE, OPERA, and ULTRABAT to bring together Europe’s battery research community around advanced characterisation methods, strengthen collaboration, and accelerate innovation in interface science