Conference Speakers

Robert Moran, Ph.D.

Advisory Board Member, DreamWeaver International

Robert Moran, Ph.D., is an independent Board Member for DreamWeaver International and an industry advisor to Soteria, BIG, and has 40 years of service in the Forest Products industry with Champion International and Bowater Incorporated in various senior management and leadership positions. He has also served in advisory assignments to FiberMark Holdings, Inc., Conestee Foundation, Shelter Cove Harbour Company and Thermion Systems International, as well as various committee and chair assignments at the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, Georgia Tech (The Institute of Paper Science and Technology), the University of Maine, Syracuse University, The Center for Paper Industry and Business Studies, the IPST Alumni Association and the Chief Technology Officer Committee of the American Forest and Paper Industry Association. Dr. Moran has several publications in science/trade journals and has degrees from The University of Massachusetts and Lawrence University, in addition to company-sponsored programs at Princeton and Columbia Universities

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Wednesday 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Learning Luncheon

High Temperature Battery Separators: Part of a Fireproof Battery Architecture

Existing lithium ion batteries use solid foil current collectors and plastic film separators. When damage or a defect occurs, the current collectors deliver all of the energy of the battery to the defect in a short period of time, generating heat and melting the plastic separator and sending the cell into thermal runaway. Soteria proposes a new architecture, based on separators that will never ever melt or shrink, and current collectors that are made from metallized plastic film, and will retreat and burn out in the presence of a defect, just like a fuse.

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