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2011 Taiwan-America Science and Technology Conference
Assistant Professor, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering, University of California San Diego Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida Member-at-large, Battery Division, the Electrochemical Society (ECS), USA Group leader, Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC), UCSD URL: http://nanoengineering.ucsd.edu/faculty/smeng.html
Education Ph.D. Singapore-MIT Alliance (National University of Singapore – Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2005 Postdoc Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007
Career Highlight Dr. Meng won the Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Award in 2003 for her pioneering work on designing new high energy electrode materials for lithium ion batteries from first principles. In 2008, she joined one of the top ten materials science and engineering departments in USA at University of Florida. Dr. Meng later joined University of California San Diego and set up the Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC). Dr. Meng recently received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.
Research Interests Meng’s research focuses on the direct integration of highly skilled experimental techniques with first principles computation modeling for developing new materials for electric energy storage and conversion. She and her research group - Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (http://ne.ucsd.edu/smeng/main-page) – focuses on functional ceramics and nanostructured materials for their electrochemical and thermoelectric applications.
2011 Taiwan-America Science and Technology Conference MATERIALS CHALLENGES FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE Prof. Ying Shirley Meng Abstract New and improved materials for energy storage are urgently required to make more efficient use of our finite supply of fossil fuels, and to enable the effective use of renewable energy sources. Rechargeable batteries and primary batteries can play different roles in different energy storage applications. In this seminar, I will demonstrate how to combine knowledge-guided synthesis/characterization and first principles computation to develop and optimize new higher energy/power density electrode materials for lithium ion and sodium ion batteries. In addition, with advances in controlled synthesis and in situ characterization tools, we are able to explore intrinsic ionic mobility and phase transformations in electrode materials, and develop an approach to map out the structure-properties relations in functional nano materials for energy storage and conversion. |
