2024 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

Materials Needs for Energy Sustainability by 2050—Advancing Next-Generation Energy Storage Systems with Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)

Monday, December 2
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Sheraton, 2nd Floor, Constitution A

Reaching our 2050 sustainability goals of decarbonizing our economy will rely on the improvement of renewable energy technology. At the core of advancing this technology is the design, discovery and synthesis of new and sustainable materials. In this panel session, we will discuss how AI and ML provide new approaches for accelerating the availability of new energy-storage systems such as solar cells, batteries, thermoelectrics, and catalysts. AI/ML enables predictive models from existing material data and establishes a new understanding of material behavior, ultimately leading to the development of more cost-effective and high-performance energy-storage systems.

This panel session was organized by the MRS Focus on Sustainability Subcommittee; Chair: Elizabeth Kocs.  

This panel session was organized by the MRS Focus on Sustainability Subcommittee; Chair: Elizabeth Kocs.  

Sponsored by: GTI Energy

 

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Manish Chhowalla

MRS Energy & Sustainability Journal, Moderator

Manish Chhowalla is the Editor-in-Chief of the MRS Energy & Sustainability Journal, MRS Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge and the Director of the University of Cambridge Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials. He holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies on the topic of atomically thin semiconductors for ultralow power electronics. His research has spanned from two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides for electrochemical applications and electronic devices to graphene oxide, vertically aligned carbon nanotubes and diamondlike carbons. Chhowalla demonstrated that it is possible to induce phase transformations in atomically thin materials and utilize phases with disparate properties for field-effect transistors as well as for catalysis and energy storage.

Anja Bielefeld

Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Panelist

Anja Bielefeld leads a junior research group at the Center for Materials Research at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen (JLU). She also currently holds a replacement professorship at the Institute of Environmental and Sustainable Chemistry at Technische Universität Braunschweig  (TU BS).

Her group works on experimental and application-oriented modeling of electrochemical systems, trying to bridge the gap between theoretical and experimental aspects. A particular emphasis is placed on microstructure effects in solid-state batteries.

Bielefeld has a background in physics from TU BS, and spent part of her master’s studies at the University of Oslo. She completed her PhD degree at JLU specializing in solid-state battery composite cathodes, and gained expertise in automotive battery research and concept development at Volkswagen AG.

Miaofang Chi

Duke University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Panelist

Miaofang Chi is a Corporate Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and a professor at Duke University. She received her PhD degree in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Davis, in 2008, and conducted her thesis research as a Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories from 2004 to 2008. Her primary research interests include understanding interfacial charge transfer and ion transport behavior in energy and quantum materials by advancing and employing novel electron microscopy techniques. She is a Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

Yury Gogotsi

Drexel University, Panelist

Yury Gogotsi is a Distinguished University Professor and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Endowed Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University. He is the Founding Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute. He received his MS (1984) and PhD (1986) degrees from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and a DSc degree from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1995. Together with his students and colleagues, he made principal contributions to the development of materials for electrochemical capacitors and other energy-storage devices, discovered MXenes, demonstrated the tuning of structure and porosity of carbide-derived carbons, and developed new processes for the synthesis, surface modification and purification of nanotubes and nanodiamonds. Gogotsi also published the first microscopic observation of water inside carbon nanotubes, discovered polygonal nanotubes (graphite polyhedral crystals), and shaped the field of high-pressure surface science. Click here to learn more about Yury Gogotsi.

Jagjit Nanda

SLAC National Laboratory and Stanford University, Panelist

Jagjit Nanda is an energy storage and materials science researcher with demonstrated history and experience working in several capacities at national laboratories, industry and academia.  His career has focused on energy-storage materials and systems with emphasis on lithium-ion, solid-state batteries and grid-scale energy storage. He is currently a Distinguished Scientist at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Executive Director at SLAC-Stanford Battery Center, and Adjunct Professor and Precourt Scholar at Stanford University. Nanda is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), The Electrochemical Society (ECS) and the National Academy of Inventors.