Symposium D: Energy-Critical Materials
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- November 25-30, 2012
- Boston, Massachusetts
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Meeting Chairs:
Chennupati Jagadish, Thomas Lippert, Amit Misra, Eric Stach, Ting Xu
Clean
and traditional energy technologies alike have critical dependencies on
specific materials. Disruptions in the
supply of these materials can impede or prevent the adoption of new
technologies and ultimately threaten energy security. This symposium will focus
on the emerging research directed toward energy-critical materials. Abstracts
are solicited on topics across a broad range of issues from mineral extraction
(geology, mineral characterization, direct reduction of ore to metal, chemical
separations using computer-designed ligands, ranging from quantum mechanics to
novel instrument development); substitution for materials with designed
properties (optics, magnetism, fluorescence, strength); novel applications and
uses for byproduct materials (magnetic refrigeration, magneto-thermo-mechanical
energy conversion); recycling (separations, new chemistry and chemical
engineering); and life-cycle analysis.
- Anticipating materials criticality–economics and information
- Knowledge and skill management
- Improving supply: rapid identification of new sources; mineral characterization; responsible extraction and processing; recycling
- Reducing demand via materials substitution: fundamental understanding of materials properties; computational strategies for materials design; rapid experimental evaluations
- Materials: rare earths; platinum group elements; lithium; cobalt; gallium; indium; tellurium; uranium
- Applications: magnetic materials; battery and storage materials; photovoltaics, detectors, and phosphors; electrical conduction and transmission; catalysis
Diana Bauer (U. S. DOE),
John Burba (Molycorp),
Brian Cantor (Univ. of York, United
Kingdom),
Steven Constantinides (Arnold
Magnetic Technologies),
David Eaglesham (First
Solar, Inc.),
Rod Eggert (Colorado
School of Mines),
Thomas Graedel (Yale
Univ.),
Karl Gschneidner (Ames Lab),
George Hadjipanyas (Univ. of
Delaware),
Brent Hiskey (Univ. of
Arizona),
Robert Jaffe (Massachusetts
Inst. of Technology),
Ihor Kunasz (Consultant),
Patrick Taylor (Colorado School of Mines),
Brad Van Gossen (U. S. Geological Survey).
Alex King
The Ames Laboratory
311 TASF, Ames, IA 50011-3020
Tel 515-294-2770
alexking@ameslab.gov
John Poate
Colorado School of Mines
Guggenheim Hall, 1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401
Tel 303-384-2375
jpoate@mines.edu
Mary M. Poulton
The University of Arizona
Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources
P. O. Box 210012, Tucson, AZ 85721-0012
Tel 520-621-8391
mpoulton@email.arizona.edu
Steven Duclos
GE Global Research
K1-MB123A, 1 Research Rd., Niskayuna, NY 12309
Tel 518-387-7632
duclos@ge.com
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