2024 WISER Distinguished Lectureship Series: Y. Shirley Meng

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Perlstein Hall Auditorium, Room 131 10 West 33rd Street Chicago, IL 60616
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Co-sponsored by:

Illinois Institute of Technology

Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER)

and

Armour College of Engineering Departments of:

with

Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST)

Wednesday, September 25 | 3:30–4:30 p.m. (CT)
(Light refreshments will be served after lecture)
Perlstein Hall Auditorium, Room 131
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 West 33rd Street
Chicago, Illinois 60616

THE LECTURE IS A HYBRID IN-PERSON PROGRAM AND WILL ALSO BE LIVE-STREAMED VIA THE ILLINOIS TECH YOUTUBE CHANNEL AT THE LINK BELOW

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Title:

Designing Better Materials and Systems for Future Batteries

Presented by:

Y. Shirley Meng, professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago

Y. Shirley Meng, Ph.D.

Professor, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, IL

Chief Scientist, Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS), IL

Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion, The University of Chicago, IL

Abstract

High energy long life rechargeable battery is considered as the key enabling technology for deep de-carbonization. Energy storage in the electrochemical form is attractive because of its high efficiency and fast response time. Besides the technological importance, electrochemical devices also provide a unique platform for fundamental and applied materials science and research since ion movement is often accompanied by inherent complex phenomena related to phase changes, electronic structure changes and defect generation. In this plenary talk, Meng will discuss a few new perspectives for energy storage materials including new superionic conductors, reactive metal anodes and their interfacial engineering in a device and system. With recent advances in advanced photon and electron characterization tools and computational methods, we are able to explore ionic mobility, charge transfer and phase transformations in electrode and electrolyte materials in operando, and map out the structure-properties relations in novel functional metals, ceramics and gaseous materials for next generation energy storage and conversion. Moreover, Meng will discuss a few future priority research directions for electrochemical energy storage.

Bio

Y. Shirley Meng is a professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She serves as the chief scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) Argonne National Laboratory. Meng is the principal investigator of the research group Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC), that was established at University of California San Diego in 2009. She held the Zable Chair Professor in Energy Technologies at University of California San Diego (UCSD) from 2017–2022. Meng received several prestigious awards, including ACS Research Excellence in Electrochemistry (2024), ECS Battery Division Research Award (2023), the C3E Technology and Innovation Award (2022), the Faraday Medal of Royal Chemistry Society (2020), International Battery Association IBA Research Award (2019), Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist (2018), C.W. Tobias Young Investigator Award of the Electrochemical Society (2016) and NSF CAREER Award (2011). Meng is elected Fellow of Electrochemical Society (FECS), Fellow of Materials Research Society (FMRS), and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is the author and co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters, and eight issued patents. She is the editor in chief for Materials Research Society (MRS) Energy and Sustainability. Meng received her Ph.D. in Advanced Materials for Micro and Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005. She received her bachelor’s degree in materials science with first class honors from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore in 2000.

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