The Rowland Institute at Harvard presents:
Prof. Ted Sargent
University Professor, University of Toronto
Nanoscale design of materials for the capture and storage of
renewable energy
Wednesday, March 22, 2016 at 4:00 PM
Auditorium, First Floor
Host: Haotian Wang
Abstract: Tremendous progress in the cost-effective conversion of solar
and wind energy into electrical power brings about a new challenge: the
massive (seasonal-scale) storage of energy. We focus on using
computational materials science, spectroscopies including ultrafast and
synchrotron, and advances in materials chemistry, to create new catalysts
for CO2 reduction and oxygen evolution. I will discuss recent advances
including a new high-activity OER catalyst [1] and a low-overpotential
CO2 reduction catalyst based on field-induced reagent concentration [2]. I
will also touch on related materials design problems in optoelectronics,
including the design of composite organic-inorganic materials for
photon-to-electron [3, 4] and electron-to-photon [5, 6] conversion.
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