加州大学圣地亚哥分校的孟颖副教授应邀来校访问，并做报告，具体信息如下：
时间：9月22日下午3:00
地点：科学楼902室
Abstract: Energy storage in the electrochemical form is attractive because of its high efficiency and fast response time. New and improved materials for electrochemical 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. In this seminar, I will discuss a few new perspectives for energy storage materials including new Li and Na intercalation compounds and their micro and nanostructured electrodes. I hope to demonstrate how to combine knowledge-guided synthesis /characterization and computational modeling to develop and optimize new higher energy/power density electrode materials for lithium ion and sodium ion batteries. With recent advances in characterization tools and computational methods, we are able to explore ionic mobility, charge transfer and phase transformations in electrode materials in operando, and map out the structure-properties relations in functional materials for more efficient energy storage and conversion.
Resume: 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 at MIT before joining University of Florida, Department of Materials Science & Engineering as a junior faculty member in 2008. Shirley is currently the Associate Professor of NanoEngineering and Materials Science, University of California San Diego (UCSD). She received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2011 and UCSD Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Collaboratories Award in 2013. Her research group - Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC) – focuses on functional inorganic materials for energy storage and conversion.
Web: http://smeng.ucsd.edu/
