Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Naoyuki Takesue received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in mechanical and control engineering from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 2000. From 1997 to 2000, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. From 2000 to 2003, he was a Research Associate at Osaka University. In 2003, he was an Assistant Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, where he was an Associate Professor in 2005. From 2008 to 2023, he was an Associate Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo. Since 2023, he has been a Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo. His current research interests include design of mechanical systems and robotic mechanisms, motion control of robotic systems, automation, and mobile robots. Prof. Takesue is a member of the Robotics Society of Japan, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, and the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, and the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society
Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia, Malaysia
MZA YAHYA is currently a Professor of Physics (Materials Science) in the Department of Defence Science, Faculty of Defence Science & Technology, National Defence University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. He received his PhD in Advanced Materials from University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2002. He has been appointed as a Fellow of the Malaysian Solid State Association (MASS) since 2010. He has published more than 250 articles in professional journals. He has also successfully supervised 28 PhD and 32 Master graduates. His research interests are related to materials for energy storage (batteries, supercapacitors, solar cells) via experimental and computational
methods.
First Principles Study on Properties of Energy Storage Materials
Energy storage technologies have been intensively studied in particular for batteries applications. Nowadays, advances in lithium-ion battery (LIB) technology are used in most portable electronic devices and electric vehicles. However, there are increasing concerns regarding to the sustainability of lithium sources due to their limited availability and price increase. Therefore, safer and cheaper sodium-based materials are intensively studied for sodium-ion battery (SIB) applications. As with LIB technologies, there are intense activities in developing new electrode materials to increase the capacity and energy density of these emerging devices. In this presentation, the topics to be discussed include: 1) Recent development of LIB and SIB technologies. 2) Computational methods as an alternative method to study the properties of these LIB and SIB cathode materials; 3) The future directions for batteries technologies.
Keywords: Energy Storage, Lithium Ion Battery, Sodium Ion Battery, Computational Methods