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Symposium T: Bio-inspired Materials for Energy Applications

• 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

Bio-inspired Materials for Energy Applications

To meet future energy demands, novel concepts to improve or replace current materials and devices, are needed for energy generation, storage and transport systems. Biological molecules and organisms have developed advanced mechanisms for energy generation and storage and might provide the necessary insights to help advance beyond current state-of-the-art technologies. This symposium intends to provide an interdiscipli-nary platform for presenting and discussing the transition of bio-inspired materials and systems from basic science to application in energy conversion, storage and transport. While bio-inspired materials synthesis has attracted great attention in the scientific community over the last years, the main objective and scope of this symposium is to show how bio-inspired materials or systems can be used and integrated for energy related applications. For this symposium the term ‘bio-inspired materials’ comprises biological materials and synthetic-biological composite materials as well as materials prepared using biological concepts or synthesis principles translated from biological mechanisms.

Session topics will include (but will not be limited to):

• Enzymatic biofuel cells, microbial fuel cells, and “bio batteries”
• Artificial photosynthesis
• Bio-inspired and bio-integrated materials for renewable energy production
• Bio-inspired energy conversion and storage applications mimicking biological systems
• Ion-transport membranes for energy-storage applications: concepts derived from biological ion channels
• Harnessing charge transport in biosystems
• Bio-inspired energy conversion and storage technologies—opportunities for industrial applications
• Theoretical aspects of bio-inspired and bio-integrated materials for energy applications: modeling and simulations

Invited speakers include:

Tao Deng (GE Global Research Ctr.), Matthew B. Francis (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Dirk M. Guldi (Friedrich-Alexander-Univ., Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Simon R. Hall (Univ. of Bristol, United Kingdom), Hiroshi Imahori (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Lei Jiang (Inst. of Chemistry, CAS, Beijing, China), Thomas A. Moore (Arizona State Univ.), Daniel E. Morse (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara), Wendy Shaw (Pacific Northwest National Lab).

Symposium Organizers

Birgit Schwenzer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
MSIN K2-01
(902 Battelle Blvd.)
P. O. Box 999
Richland, WA 99352
Tel 509-375-2078, Fax 509-371-6498
birgit.schwenzer@pnnl.gov 

Di Zhang
Shanghai Jiaotong University
State Key Lab of Metal Matrix Composites
800 Dongchuan Rd.
Shanghai 200240
P. R. China
Tel/Fax 86-21-34202634
zhangdi@sjtu.edu.cn 

Yun Jung Lee
Hanyang University
Dept. of Energy Engineering
17 Haengdang-dong
Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea
Tel 82-2-2220-2411
yjlee94@hanyang.ac.kr 

Bao-Lian Su
Wuhan University of Technology
Laboratory of Living Materials
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing
122 Luoshi Rd.
Wuhan 43007, China
Tel 86-27-87665257
baoliansu@whut.edu.cn
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The University of Namur (FUNDP)
Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Chemistry
61 rue de Bruxelles
B-5000 Namur, Belgium
Tel 32-81-72-4531, Fax 32-81-72-5414
bao-lian.su@fundp.ac.be 

Elaine D. Haberer
University of California, Riverside
Engineering Bldg.
Unit 2, Ste. 343
Riverside, CA 92521
Tel 951-827-7174, Fax 951-827-2425
haberer@ucr.edu