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_Harvard University’s Materials for Energy Group presents_
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_"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
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