Symposium ES07-New Carbon for Energy—Materials, Chemistry and Applications
Carbon and carbon-based materials plays a crucial role in energy conversion, storage, and energy-intensive processes, either as core materials or supporting materials. Examples include electro-/photo-catalysis, batteries, supercapacitors, molecules storage/separation (H2, CO2, water desalination, etc.). Recently, new structures, improved functions of carbon and carbon-like materials (e.g., graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4)) are emerging, particularly with heteroatom doping (the so-called hetero-carbon). This includes non-metal doping (N-, B-, P-, S-doping…) and transition metal (co)doping (such as Fe, Co, Mn etc.). In the past few years, good progress has been made in understanding doping chemistry/structures. Engineering development has led to significantly improved technology performance, for example, transition metal/nitrogen co-doped carbon electrocatalysts have been used in prototype proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells; novel hard carbon has been used in large format prototype Na-ion batteries. However, grand challenges still exist before this kind of materials can be broadly deployed for energy applications: 1) discovery of scientific rules for predictive and precise synthesis of hetero-carbons, 2) understanding synthesis-structure-property-performance relationship that can enable improved performance and stability/durability, 3) innovative engineering of carbon nanostructures and architectures to facilitate energy processes (e.g., molecule/ion transfer/accommodation). This symposium is to provide an international forum for scientists and engineers to discuss status, challenges, and future directions of new carbon research from a multidiscipline perspective and to bridge the collaborations.
Topics will include:
- New carbon synthesis and processing, e.g., doping
- Carbon based noble metal-free electrocatalysis
- Carbon based photoelectrocatalysis
- Cations and anions storage in carbon materials for batteries
- Porous carbons for supercapacitors
- New carbon materials for fuel cells
- Molecule storage and separation in carbon
- Advanced experimental and theoretical tools for understanding new carbon chemistry
- New energy applications of carbon
- A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned.
Invited Speakers:
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Sheng Dai
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
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Elzbieta Frackowiak
(Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
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Yury Gogotsi
(Drexel University, USA)
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Shinichi Komaba
(Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
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Liming Dai
(Case Western Reserve University, USA)
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Piotr Zelenay
(Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
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Gang Wu
(University at Buffalo, USA)
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Dustin Banham
(Ballard Power Systems, Canada)
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Francesco Bonaccorso
(Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
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Anmin Cao
(Institute of Chemistry, China)
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Huiming Cheng
(Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, China)
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Andrea Ferrari
(University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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Yongsheng Hu
(Institute of Physics, China)
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Frédéric Jaouen
(University of Montpellier 2, France)
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Ulrike Kramm
(Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
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David Mitlin
(Clarkson University, USA)
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Sanjeev Mukerjee
(Northeastern University, USA)
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Deborah Myers
(Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
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Paolo Samori
(Université de Strasbourg, France)
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Seong Ihl Woo
(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
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Quanhong Yang
(Tianjin University, China)
Symposium Organizers
Xiulei Ji
Oregon State University
USA
Jean-Pol Dodelet
INRS-Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications
Canada
Xinliang Feng
Technische Universität Dresden
Germany
Hongli Zhu
Northeastern University
USA