Part II

(Part I of this report appeared in December 2000 ABT.)

The Arthur D. Little Power 2000 Conference, subtitled "The 8th Annual International Conference on Power Requirements for Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications," attracted more than 500 technical, sales, and marketing professionals from around the world who attended 5 Tutorials, 12 General Sessions, 26 "Battery Track" Sessions, and 17 "Emerging Technology" Sessions. Copies of many of the presentations are on the Power 2000 web site, www.gigaweb.com/com/power/power2000.html

On the Battery Track

The Battery Track part of the program included eight different presentations about polymer batteries, three about fuel cell technology, and one each about lithium sulfur, lithium silver, and supercapacitors, as follows::

Takayuki Nakajima, Kazunori Hasegawa, and Shintaro Suzuki of A&T Battery/Toshiba Battery Co., "Advanced Lithium Ion (ALB)" Liquid electrolyte, al-laminated film packing li-ion battery, using an anode of high capacity mesophase-pitch-based carbon fiber (MCF), Improved LiCoO 2 for the cathode, and a specially designed LiBF4 EC-GBL-based electrolyte with capacity of 172Wh/ kg, >366Wh/l, with GSM and PDA high rate capability.