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Dr. Yi Cui
Standford University
Reinventing Batteries Through Nanoscience
Wednesday, October 09, 2024
ASB 10900 (Big Data Hub) @ 3:30 p.m.
Refreshments served at 3pm in the Atrium
Host: Dr. Samira Siahrostami
Abstract
The fast growth of power sources for transportation and grid-scale stationary storage presents great opportunities for new battery chemistries. How to increase energy density, reduce cost, speed up charging, extend life, enhance safety and reuse/recycle are critical challenges. Here I will present how my lab utilized nanoscience to reinvent batteries and address many of challenges by understanding the materials and interfaces through new tools and providing design principles of new materials. The topics to be discussed include: materials design to enable high capacity materials: Si and Li metal anodes and S cathodes; materials for low-cost large scale stationary energy storage; a set of tools including cryogenic electron microscopy for understanding thermodynamic, kinetic and structural information off battery chemistries.
Biography
Prof. Yi Cui is the founding director of Sustainability Accelerator at Stanford University. He is the Fortinet Founders Professor of materials science and engineering, and energy science and engineering. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1998 from the University of Science & Technology of China and his PhD in chemistry from Harvard University in 2002. He was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from 2002 to 2005 before joining the Stanford faculty. A preeminent researcher of nanotechnologies for better batteries and other sustainability materials technologies, Cui has published more than 570 studies and is one of the world’s most cited scientists with H-index 271 (Google). In 2014 he was ranked NO.1 worldwide in Materials Science by Thomas Reuters. He served over 10 years as an Associate Editor of Nano Letters. He has founded five companies to commercialize technologies from his lab: Amprius (AMPX in NYSE), 4C Air, EEnotech, LifeLabs Design and EnerVenue Inc. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, fellow of the Materials Research Society, fellow of the Electrochemical Society, and fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His selected honors include Global Energy Prize (2021), Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (2021), Materials Research Society Medal (2020), Electrochemical Society Battery Technology Award (2019) and Blavatnik National Laureate (2017).