【6th.May】Nanoscale materials design and in operando visualization for high-energy ultra-safe batteries
日期：2019-05-06
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题目：Nanoscale materials design and in operando visualization for high-energy ultra-safe batteries
报告人：Nian Liu，Assistant Professor，School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering，Georgia Institute of Technology
时间：2019年5月6日，星期一，下午1点，
地点：化学A楼518会议室
邀请人：李林森 特别研究员
Abstract:
Zinc-based batteries have found applications in devices ranging from hearing aid to grid-scale batteries, due to their superior safety, high energy and low cost compared to Li-ion counterpart. However, zinc-based batteries, particularly zinc anodes, historically suffer from poor rechargeability. Since the launch of my lab at Georgia Tech in January 2017, we have focused on developing tools to uncover the important information about battery materials, as well as engineering battery materials at the nanoscale to solve their intrinsic problems. In this talk, I will present our recent progress in designing nanostructured materials to mitigate the reversibility problem of zinc anodes. Next, I will show our in-operando visualization of liquid product formation and dynamics in Zn-Br stationary battery. Finally, I will show examples of applying the above two research approaches in other battery systems.
Biography: 
Nian Liu is an Assistant Professor at School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received B.S. in 2009 from Fudan University, and Ph.D. in 2014 from Stanford University, where he worked with Prof. Yi Cui on the structure design for Si anodes for high-energy Li-ion batteries. In 2014-2016, he worked with Prof. Steven Chu at Stanford University as a postdoc, where he developed in situ optical microscopy to probe beam-sensitive battery reactions. Dr. Liu’s lab at Georgia Tech is broadly interested in the combination of nanomaterials, electrochemistry, and light microscopy for studying the global energy challenges. Specifically, the Liu’s lab is focusing on electric vehicle battery and stationary battery science and technologies. His publications have been cited over 13,000 times. He is the recipient of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) Daniel Cubicciotti Award (2014), American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award (2015), and Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator (2018).
