Engineering Synergy: Energy and Mass Transport in Hybrid Nanomaterials
Event details
| Date | 14.07.2016 |
| Hour | 16:00 › 17:00 |
| Speaker |
Jeff Urban, Facility Director at the Molecular Foundry and Staff Scientist in the Materials Science Division at Berkeley Labs Bio: Jeff Urban a Facility Director at the Molecular Foundry and Staff Scientist in the Materials Science Division at Berkeley Labs. He is currently leading programs in thermoelectrics and hydrogen fuel cells and and co-leading a new water initiative as well. His research focuses on the materials and physics of mass, heat, and charge transport in complex hybrid nanomaterials. |
| Location |
EPFL Valais Wallis/Zeuzier conference room
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The interface between hard (inorganic) and soft (organic) condensed matter presents new and compelling research opportunities in the transport of energy and mass due to the dramatic contrasts in bond strength, chemical interactions, and transport modalities between these constituents. Often, however, when inorganic and organic materials are blended into composites, performance suffers and new failure modes appear. Here, I will discuss the design and understanding of transport properties in “hybrid” systems, which show the surprisingly pivotal role that nanoscale interfaces can play in dictating macroscale transport properties. This talk will cover recent work in hybrid materials for applications in thermoelectric energy conversion, chemical energy storage, and gas separations membranes.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Wendy Queen
Contact
- Constance Visser Witman