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      • Symposium A: Amorphous and Polycrystalline Thin-Film Silicon Science and Technology
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Symposium O: Next-Generation Energy Storage Materials and Systems

• 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 9 - April 13, 2012
• Moscone West Convention Center | Marriott Marquis - San Francisco, California-
• Meeting Chairs: Lara A. Estroff, Jun Liu, Kornelius Nielsch, Kazumi Wada

Next-Generation Energy Storage Materials and Systems

The main focus of this symposium is to address the materials science/materials chemistry challenges involved in the next generation of electrical energy storage technologies for applications spanning from portable devices to vehicles and electric grids.  High-energy lithium ion batteries have been widely accepted by the market of portable electronics and are now considered as the most promising technology for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) along with lithium-air and lithium-sulphur systems.  Besides, an emerging field in large-scale stationary storage of electricity has attracted increasing interests, with the growing penetration of diurnal renewable power from solar and wind and the implementation of the smart grids.  Significant advances have been demonstrated in this field in relation to sodium batteries and redox flow cells.  This symposium will be the venue for discussing the latest progresses on the next generation of energy storage technologies from funda-mental theory, through novel materials synthesis and characterization, to their integration with novel designs in large-scale applications.

Session topics will include:

• High-performance electrode materials for Li-ion batteries
• Materials chemistry and design for Li-air and Li-S systems, and lithium metal-protection technology
• Advanced electrolyte and electrolyte additives
• Novel synthesis of electrode materials through cost-effective approaches
• Advanced modeling and characterization
• Electrochemical energy storage for stationary and grid applications
• Nanotechnology for batteries
• High-performance ultracapacitors and pseudocapacitors

A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned. Further information will be included in the MRS Program that will be available online in January.

Invited speakers include:

Gerbrand Ceder (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), Dominique Guyomard (Univ. de Nantes, France), Stephen Harris (General Motors), Xianfeng Li (Dalian Inst. of Chemical Physics, China), Gao Liu (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Shirley Y. Meng (Univ. of California, San Diego), Hinrich-Wilhelm Meyer (Univ. Münster, Germany), Linda Nazar (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada), Mark Obrovac (Dalhousie Univ., Canada), Zempachi Ogumi (NEDO, Japan), Deyang Qu (Univ. of Massachusetts-Boston), Jeffery Read (Army Research Lab), Gwenaelle Rousse (Inst. de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, UPMC, Paris, France), Michael Thackeray (Argonne National Lab), Marina Yakovleva (FMC Lithium), Gary Yang  (Pacific Northwest National Lab), Xiao-Qing Yang (Brookhaven National Lab), Hui Zhan (Wuhan Univ., China). 

Symposium Organizers

Jie Xiao
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Energy and Environment Directorate
902 Battelle Blvd.
Richland, WA 99352
Tel 509-375-4598, Fax 509-375-3864
jie.xiao@pnl.gov  

M. Stanley Whittingham
State University of New York, Binghamton
Dept. of Chemistry
Binghamton, NY 13902
Tel 607-777-4623, Fax 607-777-4478
stanwhit@binghamton.edu 

Peter G. Bruce
University of St. Andrews
School of Chemistry
N. Haugh, St. Andrews, Scotland KY16 9ST
United Kingdom
Tel 44-1334-463-852, Fax 44-1334-463-808
p.g.bruce@st-andrews.ac.uk 

Huamin Zhang
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS
457 Zhongshan Rd.
Dalian 116023, China
Tel 86-411-4379072, Fax 86-411-4665057
zhanghm@dicp.ac.cn