Taewon Choi, “Battery is the future innovation engine…Industry-academic collaboration is important”

SK Chairman Choi Tae-won attended the webinar (webinar) of’The Future of Battery Technology’ held by Choi Jong-Hyun Academy on the 19th and gave a welcome speech. [웨비나 캡쳐]

On the 19th, SK Chairman Tae-won Choi appeared at an event related to electric vehicle batteries hosted by the group’s public welfare foundation. It is the first official event of Chairman Choi, which took place after the US International Trade Commission (ITC)’s’battery decision’. On the 10th (local time), ITC raised LG’s hand in a lawsuit for infringing battery trade secrets between LG Energy Solutions and SK Innovation. For this reason, whether or not Choi’s remarks related to the lawsuit attracted great interest, but he did not comment on anything other than a brief greeting related to the event.

At the webinar (webinar) of’The Future of Battery Technology’ held by Choi Jong-Hyun Academy on this day, Chairman Choi gave a welcoming remark as chairman. Through the video recorded before the event, he said, “We have made a place to focus on battery technology, which is the engine of innovation in the future, and to explore challenges and opportunities. “You can do new things to do it properly.”

Chairman Choi said, “The success of the battery market in recent years is due to the long collaboration of researchers in industry and academia. This collaboration is very important in the expanding battery ecosystem.” In addition, he added, “Technology to develop new materials for next-generation batteries and recycle waste batteries is also possible through collaboration.”

In the webinar that day, Stanley Whittingham, a professor of chemistry at New York State University Binghamton Campus, and Gerbrand Ceder, a professor of material engineering at UC Berkeley, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contribution to the development and commercialization of lithium-ion batteries. Came out as a lecturer. Professor Ki-seok Kang of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University and Professor Jang-wook Choi of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University were also named as major lecturers.

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