[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Today at 12pm: "Energy and Environment Nanomaterials"

Email not displaying correctly? [1]View it in your browser. _Harvard University’s Materials for Energy Group presents_ Links: 1. http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=8aa016… _"Energy and Environment Nanomaterials"_ _Yi Cui_ _Associate Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering Stanford University _ _Friday, April 29, noon_ Maxwell Dworkin, G115 33 Oxford Street,Cambridge _Abstract: _Both energy and environment problems require technologies to be high performance and low cost. The capability of controlling nanomaterials in size, shape, assembly and property developed in the past decades has enabled exciting opportunities of designing nanomaterials rationally toward novel energy and environment technologies. In this lecture, I will show how we design and synthesize nanowires, nanotubes and nanocones to manipulate fundamental processes involving photons, electrons and ions. I will illustrate our success using exciting examples in solar cells, batteries, microbial fuel cells and water filters. _About Yi Cui: _Yi Cui went to University of Science and Technology of China, where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 1998. He attended graduate school from 1998 to 2002 at Harvard University, where he worked under supervision of Professor Charles M. Lieber. His Ph.D thesis concerned semiconductor nanowires for nanotechnology including synthesis, nanoelectroncis and nanosensor applications. He went on to work as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Paul Alivisatos at University of California, Berkeley. His postdoctoral work was mainly on electronics and assembly using colloidal nanocrystals. He is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. The overall theme of his research has been on the rational design of nanoscale materials to address critical problems in energy and the environment. His research group has generated a number of breakthroughs. His group has developed silicon nanowire battery anodes with 10 times higher specific capacities than the existing carbon anodes. They have invented paper and textile batteries, opening up exciting opportunities in large-scale stationary energy storage and wearable power. His group has designed high performance nanodome solar cells and metal nanowire mesh transparent electrodes. They have generated novel electrified nanowire water filters for fast and low-cost pathogen disinfection, which was designated one of “the top 10 world changing ideas” by _Scientific American_. Most recently his group has invented mixing entropy batteries which could extract a large amount of electricity out of the salinity difference between the sea and the river water. In addition, Yi has also been actively working on topological insulators and nanoscale tools for biology. Yi has received Harvard’s Wilson Prize (2011), KAUST Investigator Award (2008), ONR Young Investigator Award (2008), MDV Innovators Award (2007), Terman Fellowship (2005), the Technology Review World Top Young Innovator Award (2004), Miller Research Fellowship (2003), Distinguished Graduate Student Award in Nanotechnology (Foresight Institute, 2002), Gold Medal of Graduate Student Award (Material Research Society, 2001). The Materials for Energy lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment. The lectures are free and open to the public. _Contact:_ Brenda Hugot Program Administrator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 [2]bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu p. 617-496-1788 f. 617-496-0425 Links: 2. mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu *|LIST:Green Conversations|* [3]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 3. http://harvard.us1.list-manage2.com/unsubscribe?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe… Our mailing address is: 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 T: (617) 495-0368 www.environment.harvard.edu Copyright (C) 2008 Harvard University. All rights reserved. [4]Forward this email to a friend Links: 4. http://us1.forward-to-friend1.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&i…