Please join the Department of Chemical Engineering for a seminar on the application of nanostructured materials to address challenges in sustainable energy conversion/storage and the environment by Dr. Shuhui Sun from Montreal’s Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Abstract
Energy shortage and environmental pollution are two of the key challenges that humanity will face in the long term. Nanostructured materials are advantageous in offering huge surface to volume ratios as well as unique chemical/physical and confinement effects resulting from the nanoscale dimensions. Various functional nanomaterials have been extensively studied for energy and environment related applications such as fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors, H2 production, solar cells, carbon capture and water purification.
Dr. Sun and his group are focusing on applying nanostructured materials to address the challenges in sustainable energy conversion/storage and the environment. In this talk, Dr. Sun will present his progress on the rational design and synthesis of functional nanomaterials via green chemistry, ALD and electrochemical deposition methods, as well as how to apply various nanomaterials to solve the problems in low temperature fuel cells and various batteries. He will also briefly introduce some work on CO2 reduction and water treatment.
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Shuhui Sun is a full professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique’s Center for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications in Montreal. His current research interests focus on the development of multi-functional nanomaterials (graphene, CNTs, MOF, metal and metal oxides) for energy and environment, including PEM fuel cells (low-Pt and Pt-free catalysts), Li-ion/Na-ion/Zn-ion batteries, Zn-air batteries, photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation, CO2 reduction and water treatment.
Dr. Sun has published 12 book chapters and over 166 peer-reviewed journal articles, including those in Nature Communications, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, J. Am. Chem. Soc. Advanced Energy Materials, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Funct. Mater., and Chem. Mater. He holds 2 US patents. His recent awards include ECS-Toyota Young Investigator Fellow, Global Young Academy Member, IUPAC Novel Materials Youth Prize and Canada Governor General's Academic Gold Medal. He is the Vice President of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES). He serves as the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Electrochemical Energy Reviews (Springer-Nature), and is editor/editorial board member for six journals related to nanomaterials and clean energy.