- Bulgaria-Italy-Spain supercapacitors
20.-23.09.2021, Sozopol, Bulgaria (Saint Thomas Vacation Complex)
Thematic workshop "Electrode materials for energy storage systems. Supercapacitors - principle of action, types, application. Solid State Supercapacitors" was held from 20 to 23 September 2021 in Sozopol, Bulgaria (Holiday Complex St. Thomas).
The meeting was attended by representatives of the three partner organizations of the BIScaps project - Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IEES-BAS), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Institute of Advanced Technology for Energy (CNR-ITAE), Italy and Spanish National Research Council - National Coal Institute (CSIC -INCAR), Spain.
Prof. Evelina Slavcheva, Director of IEES-BAS welcomed the participants and expressed her belief that the integration of expertise and capabilities of the three research centers will allow the creation of a sustainable scientific network and increase the overall international visibility of the entire consortium in the field of supercapacitors.
The project manager Prof. Dr. Antonia Stoyanova reviewed the previous project activities and thanked for the help of the Italian and Spanish partners, as well as the Ministry of Education and Science as a funding body. She highlighted the progress of young IEES-BAS scientists in improving their knowledge in the field of energy storage via supercapacitors, as well as the acquired skills in the synthesis of electrode materials (carbon xerogel and various modifications manganese dioxide) and their structural, morphological and electrochemical characterization.
Over the next working days, leading scientists from the partner organizations gave thematic scientific lectures - Prof. Antonia Stoyanova from IEES-BAS, Dr. Francesco Lufrano and Dr. Gaetano Squadrito from CNR-ITAE and Dr. Nataliа Rey from CSIC-INCAR. In short presentations, the young researchers reported the experimental results obtained and shared the challenges they faced during the first year of the project. Subsequent in-depth discussions on scientific, technological and organizational issues at work were very useful for achieving an exchange of experience and knowledge. The work program for the implementation of the forthcoming tasks from the next stage of the project was discussed, as well as the stay of the young Bulgarian researchers in the scientific institutions in Italy and Spain, related to the acquisition of practical experience.
The event ended with a short tour of the old town of Sozopol.
The meeting is the first of the planned for the implementation of the project "Twinning cooperation to increase excellence in electrochemical energy storage on the platform of supercapacitors (BIScaps)", funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria under the National Program "European Science Networks" (D01-286 / 07.10.2020, D01-78 / 30.03.2021).
14:00 - 17:00 Accommodation
17:00 - 18:00 Session 1: Opening of the Workshop
17:00 - 17:10 Opening remarks by the coordinator (Antonia Stoyanova)
17:10 - 17:30 Greetings from the invited persons
17:30 - 17:50 Presentation of the project - goals, objectives; presentation of the partners and participants
17:50 - 18:10 Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, Sozopol (short film)
19:00 - Welcome party
09:30 - 12:10 Session 2: Educational lectures by leading scientists, project partners
09:30 -10:00 Lecture 1: Thematic lecture on supercapacitors (Antonia Stoyanova)
10:00-10:30 Lecture 2: Carbon materials for supercapacitors (Ana Arenillas)
10:30-10:50 Coffee break 1
10:50 -11:20 Lecture 3: Investigation of the electrochemical properties of supercapacitors by various electrochemical methods (Francesco Lufrano)
11:20 – 11:50 Lecture 4: An introduction to the socio-economic aspects of green energy technologies (Gaetano Squadrito)
11:50 - 12:10 Discussion (all participants)
12:30 -14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:30 - Session 3: Progress of the Project Work Program - experimental results
Topic 1: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR SUPERCAPACITORS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS
14:30-14:50 Synthesis and characterization of carbon xerogel (Borislava Mladenova, Toma Stankulov)
14:50-15:10 Synthesis and characterization of manganese dioxide (Vanya Ilcheva)
15:10 -15:30 Influence of carbon xerogel as an additive in the negative electrode of the lead battery (Maria Matrakova, Albena Aleksandrova)
15:30 - 15:50 Coffee break 2
15:50-16:40 Round table and discuss the results on topic 1 (all participants)
09:30 - 11:00 - Session 4: Progress of the Project Work Program - experimental results
Theme 2: PREPARATION OF AVCTIVE MASS AND ELETRODES. SELECTION OF CURRENT COLLECTORS, ELECTROLYTE, TEST CELLS. SOLID-STATE SUPERCAPACITORS. ELECTROCHEMICAL MESUREMENTS.
09:30 – 09:50 Electrochemical tests of the synthesized electrode materials in aqueous electrolytes (Boriana Karamanova, Lyubomir Soserov)
09:50 – 10:10 Electrochemical tests of the synthesized electrode materials in non-aqueous electrolytes. Solid state electrolytes - first steps (Svetlana Veleva, Toma Stankulov)
10:10-11:00 Round table and discuss the results on topic 2 (all participants)
11:00-11:20 Coffee break 3
11:20 - 13:00 Session 5: Summary and evaluation of the project development. Recommendations and planning for the next stage
11:20-11:40 Summary of the achieved results – Coordinator (Antonia Stoyanova)
11:40-12:00 Future activities on the BIScaps project (Francesco Lufrano)
12:00- 12:30 Discussion (all participants)
12:30- 13:00 Closing the meeting
13:00 - 16:30 Lunch and free time
16:30 - Trip to Sozopol
19:30 - Dinner
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