CONFERENCE: “ELECTRICITY STORAGE ENHANCED BY NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS”

The Madeira Chemistry Research Center (CQM) will organize the conference “Electricity Storage Enhanced by Nanostructured Materials”, to be presented by Professor Bingqing Wei (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, USA & Center for Nano Energy Materials, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China) to be held at the University of Madeira, Room 0.57, next 22nd January 201615h00.

REGISTRATION

Participants must make their registration hereuntil 20th January 2016.

ABSTRACT

Sustainable and renewable energy sources from hydropower, solar energy, and wind power are expected to release the heavy burdens on the current energy infrastructure and the environmental concerns. As these renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind power are intermittent in nature, reliable electricity storage systems, mainly including rechargeable batteries and electrochemical capacitors, are purposely explored to promote efficient utilization of these energy sources and are a growing challenge. The development of high energy storage devices has been one of the most important research areas in recent years and relies mostly on the successful engineering of electrode materials. Nanostructured materials such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene have been full of surprises since their emergence and are intensively investigated for use as electrode materials in energy storage devices. Utilizing CNTs, graphene, and their composites for various energy storage applications such as lithium ion batteries and super-capacitors are under close scrutiny because of their improved electrochemical activity, cost effectiveness, environmental benign nature, and promising electrochemical performance. In this presentation, I will discuss our research strategies and efforts to employ nanostructured materials for different energy storage applications..

ABOUT THE LECTURER

Dr. Bingqing Wei (B. Q. Wei) received his Bachelor (1987), M.S (1989), and Ph.D. (1992) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware (UD), USA. Before joining UD, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University from 2003 to 2007. He had worked as a Post-doctorate Research Associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center from 2000 to 2003. Dr. Wei was a visiting scientist for Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany in 1998 and 1999. He was a faculty member at Tsinghua University in Beijing from 1992 to 2001. Dr. Wei’s research interests lie in nanomaterials and their energy applications. He has published more than 230 scientific papers in refereed international journals, including Nature and Science, and delivered 160 plus invited talks and seminars in academia and industry worldwide. His research work has been intensively cited more than 12500 times by peer scientists with the h-index of 57 and has also been highlighted many times in scientific journals, web journals, and public media. His research has also been recognized with many awards, including the most recent Advanced Materials Medal for Year 2015.