Speaker: Zaiping Guo
Place: Conference Room 326, Building Chao Kuang Piu, School of Materials Science & Engineering
Title: Advanced Electrode Materials for Metal-ion Batteries
Time: 7th January, 2019, 14:00-15:00 p.m.
Inviter: Xinhui Xia
Abstract:
Energy storage is an important problem to realize low carbon society and there have been many challenges. Metal-ion batteries have attracted remarkable attention recently due to the high energy storage demands. The requirement of feasible electrode materials with high capacity and good cycling stability has promoted the exploration of various electrode materials for metal ion batteries. Materials engineering plays a key role in the field of battery research. In particular, engineering materials at the nanoscale offers unique properties resulting in high performance electrodes in various energy storage devices. Consequently, considerable efforts have been made in recent years to fulfil the future requirements of electrochemical energy storage devices. Various multi-functional hybrid nanostructured materials are currently being studied to improve energy and power densities of next generation batteries. In this talk, I will present some of our recent progress in the synthesis of different types of hybrid nanostructures to enhance the electrochemical energy storage properties of metal-ion battery.
Biography:
Prof. Zaiping Guo received a PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Wollongong in December 2003. She was an APD Fellow at University of Wollongong, where she continued as a group leader from 2007. She is a Distinguished Professor in the school of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wollongong. Her research focuses on the design and application of nanomaterials for energy storage and conversion, including rechargeable batteries, hydrogen storage, and fuel cells. She published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed Journals, more than 60 papers were published in journals with IF > 10, and these publications have been cited >17800 times with an h-index of 72. Her research achievements have been recognised through numerous awards, including an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in 2010, an ARC Future Fellowship (FT3) in 2015, and the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher Award in 2018. And she is the associate editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
