The UL Research Institutes’ Electrochemical Safety Research Institute, a nonprofit organization, is delighted to host the 5th International Battery Safety Workshop (IBSW), taking place on August 30 - September 1 in Houston, Texas.
The IBSW serves as a collaborative platform for sharing knowledge on important safety considerations across diverse battery technologies and aims to drive the development of safer, more sustainable energy solutions globally. The workshop will feature technical discussion focused on informing the community of battery safety issues.
Participation is free but limited.
History of the Workshop
The series of IBSW is supported by a group of enthusiastic battery experts in the IBSW executive committee and advisory board working together to advocate a sustainable approach to improve the safety of advanced rechargeable alkali batteries. The first IBSW was initiated and organized by Boryann (Bor Yann) Liaw, Juergen Garche, and Andreas Jossen and held in the Technical University of Munich in Germany, August 2015, with a sponsorship by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
The First IBSW was well received by the participants, thus an executive committee and an advisory board were formed since then to continue holding the tradition of this IBSW series. Subsequently, the second IBSW meeting was organized and hosted by Sandia National Laboratories at Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, in May 2017, sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy. The third IBSW meeting was organized and hosted by Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in October 2019, sponsored by Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. The 2021 meeting was postponed due to pandemics and the fourth IBSW meeting was organized and hosted by Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) in Ulm, Germany, September 2023, sponsored by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Organizing Committee
Dr. Boryann Liaw
Dr. Juergen Garche, Ulm University, Germany
Dr. Judy Jeevarajan, UL Research Institutes
Dr. Loraine Torres-Castro, Sandia National Laboratories