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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Vabilo na Preglov kolokvij / Invitation to the Pregl colloquium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Prof. Dr. Alejandro A. Franco<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">1</span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Institut Universitaire de France,
<sup>2</sup>Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie des Solides (LRCS), Université de Picardie Jules Verne and CNRS,
<sup>3</sup>Réseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l'Energie (RS2E), <sup>4</sup>ALISTORE European Research Institute, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Mesostructure-performance relationships in batteries and fuel cells<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Challenging the dogma with multiscale computations and immersive visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">Optimized design of composite electrodes for batteries and fuel cells is recognized
to be of crucial importance, in particular to reach automotive application expectations in terms of performance gain and cost reduction. Such electrodes are currently made of active material or catalysts, additives and binder and the resulting complex porous
structure contains an electrolyte. Several conceptual pictures have been developed attempting to capture the influence of these composite electrodes structural properties on the overall cell response: approaches consisting of building up artificial structures
capturing the main features of the actual electrodes and approaches based on computer-aided reconstruction of the electrode structure. These two approaches have provided progress on the understanding of batteries and fuel cells operation, but there is still
a significant lack of understanding of their structural features (e.g. exact location of the binder) and the impact of the three-dimensional structural anisotropies on the effective transport properties at multiple scales, from the pore and/or particle to
the percolated aggregates and/or agglomerates. Defining an appropriate structural picture for the composite electrodes is crucial for a correct interpretation of experimental characterizations but also for optimizing the full cells. In this lecture I discuss
a novel computational modelling approach describing the interplays between electrochemical and transport processes at multiple spatial scales. The predictive capabilities of our approach on establishing and optimizing electrode mesostructure-performance relationships
are presented within the context of three application examples: (1) discharge and charge mechanisms in Li-O<sub>2</sub> batteries; (2) cyclability of Li-S batteries; (3) membrane degradation and carbon corrosion in PEM Fuel Cells. Finally, the tremendous opportunities
opened by the combination of these models with three-dimensional immersive Virtual Reality software for data analysis are discussed on the basis of a recent experience by us on integrating these aspects in our lectures within the Erasmus Master Programme M.E.S.C.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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