报告人：Yuyan Shao
报告题目：Materials Electrochemistry for Chemical Transformation
报告时间：2018年7月24下午14:30
报告地点：新能源大楼102会议室
报告人简介：
Dr. Yuyan Shao is a Senior Scientist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). His research focus has been on fundamental materials chemistry, electrochemical materials and devices for energy and environmental applications, including fuel cells, batteries, hydrogen production, water decontamination, etc. He is also instrumental to developing in situ tools for materials science research, including in situ (Environmental) TEM, NMR. He has authored over 130 scientific papers (average citation >100/paper, H Index>50). He is also an inventor on over 40 patents/patent applications. He has been selected as one of Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics “Highly Cited Researchers” (2014-Engineering, 2017-Materials Science). At PNNL, he has received numerous awards including Exceptional Contribution Award, Key Contributor Award, OTY Award, Outstanding Performance Award.He currently manages over $3M research projects which involves a multidisciplinary team of about 15 staff scientists, postdocs, and visiting scholars. He is serving as a Guest Editor for the journal Advanced Materials (Special Issue: Materials Electrochemistry for Chemical Transformation), an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports. He served at a Guest Editor for Nano Energy (Special Issue: Electrocatalysis) in 2016.He has also been a frequent symposium organizer and invited speaker for Materials Research Society (MRS), American Chemical Society (ACS) and The Electrochemical Society (ECS) meetings.
报告摘要：
Chemical transformations provide energy, fuel and chemicals for today’s society. Electrochemistry offers the possibility to drive chemical transformations under ambient temperature and ambient pressure. More importantly, the interconversion of chemical and electrical energy by electrochemical means (e.g., electrocatalysis) of using the electron potential to control the directions and rates of chemical processes provides a flexible and scalable solution to store energy in chemical bonds and retrieve this energy wherever and whenever needed. On the other hand, chemical transformation reactions have the potential to store more energy in rechargeable batteries than traditional intercalation reactions; examples include lithium sulfur, lithium air batteries. In this presentation, we will discuss our recent understanding and progress on materials electrochemistry of chemical transformation based energy storage/conversion and tool development for energy materials study. We will touch basic materials and reactions in Li-S batteries, environmental TEM study of catalytic materials and electrocatalyst investigation using earth abundant materials.