[Gyeonggi] Gachon University Holds International Symposium on 'Future of Secondary Battery Technology'

Gachon University invited domestic and foreign secondary battery scholars as speakers to hold an international symposium this year to explore the future and development direction of secondary batteries.

Gachon University has established a battery engineering major in 2022 to train key personnel specialized in the secondary battery field, and has been selected as a high-tech innovation convergence university project held by the Ministry of Education and the Korea Research Foundation in 2023 to operate the "secondary battery innovation convergence university project group."

The event, which began with a welcoming speech by Vice-Chancellor Yoon Won-joong of Gachon University, was held with two sessions on the theme of next-generation battery technology and materials.

The first session is 'Pioneering Innovation in Battery Technology and Materials' and the second session is 'The Future of Energy Led by Next Generation Batteries'.

In the first session, Professor Y. Shirley Meng of the University of Chicago, a world-renowned master in secondary batteries, said, "All-solid batteries? It has been promoted to the platform under the theme of 'All Solid State Battery? A Platform for New Materials Discovery and Design'.

Professor Jeong Yoon-seok of Yonsei University then made an in-depth presentation under the theme of "Problems and Perspectives of High Energy All-Solid Batteries," and Dr. Lee Jae-heon of LG Energy Solution continued to make an in-depth presentation under the theme of "High-tech Battery Technology of LG Energy Solutions."

In the second session, Professor Shirley Meng once again took the podium and presented the vision of next-generation battery technology under the theme of "Tera Wat-Hour Energy Transition? The Race for Battery."

Dr. Yoo Ji-sang of the Korea Institute of Electronics and Technology (KETI) then presented "recently KETI's sulfide-based all-solid-state battery research and development" and shared the latest research results and prospects.

Professor Shirley Meng has published more than 320 papers and recorded an H-index of 115 indicating research productivity and influence, recognizing her global scientific contribution.

Based on this, he won the C3E Technology and Innovation Award in 2022, the Electrochemical Society Battery Research Award in 2023, and the Dresselhouse Memorial Lecture Award in 2024, and is a world-renowned master of energy storage systems research, including being selected as an MRS and ECS master scholar.