Category: Frontiers in Science & Technology
Charging Forward: Materials Challenges for Electrochemical Energy Storage
Program Sponsored by:
SDG&E
Presented by:
Shirley Meng
Department of NanoEngineering, UC San Diego
Program Overview:
New and improved materials for energy storage are urgently required to make more efficient use of our finite supply of fossil fuels, and to enable the effective use of renewable energy sources. Rechargeable batteries and flow batteries can play different roles in different energy storage applications.
This timely discussion will include the combination of knowledge-guided synthesis/characterization and first principles computation to develop and optimize new higher energy/power density electrode materials for lithium ion, sodium ion batteries and new flow batteries at an accelerated pace. Meng will examine the novel approach to map out the structure-properties relations in functional nano-materials for energy storage and conversion.
Who Should Attend:
Scientists, engineers, physicians, healthcare leaders, venture capitalists, technology and life sciences professionals, services providers and business leaders.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Shirley Meng received her Ph.D. in Advance Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005, after which she worked as a postdoc research fellow and became a research scientist in Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining University of Florida, Department of Materials Science & Engineering (ranked top 10 MSE departments in the US) as a junior faculty member.
She is currently a faculty member in the Department of NanoEngineering, UC San Diego. She is affiliated with the MSE and Chemical Engineering programs and an affiliated member of Center for Magnetic Recording Research (CMRR) at UC San Diego. Meng’s research focuses on the direct integration of experimental techniques with first principles computation modeling for developing new materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. She won the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award in 2003 for her pioneering work on designing new high energy electrode materials for lithium ion batteries from first principles. In 2011, she received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. Her research group, Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion, focuses on functional nano and micro materials for energy storage and conversion.
Event Details:
Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Location: AMN Healthcare
12400 High Bluff Drive # 100
San Diego, CA 92130
Lunch will be provided for participants
Fees:
CONNECT Members: $20
Non-Members: $30
Students: $10
At the Door: $40
Register Here
Contact:
Darci Manzo, Program Manager
dmanzo@connect.org
