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MRS Medal

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View a report and photos from the MRS Medal presentation from The Meeting Scene.

The MRS Medal is awarded for a specific outstanding recent discovery or advancement which has a major impact on the progress of a materials-related field.

(The Von Hippel, Turnbull Lecturer, MRS Medal, and Graduate Student Awards will be presented during the Award Presentations at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday evening in the Sheraton Grand Ballroom prior to the Von Hippel lecture by Tobin Marks of Northwestern University).

Gerbrand Ceder Gerbrand Ceder (view bio)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

For pioneering the high-impact field of first-principles thermodynamics of batteries materials and for the development of high-power density Li battery compounds

Talk Presentation:  The Opportunities and Challenges for First-Principles Materials Design and Applications to Li Battery Materials (view abstract)

Abstract

The idea of first-principles methods is to determine the properties of materials by solving the basic equations of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics.  With such an approach, one can, in principle, predict the behavior of novel materials without the need to synthesize them, and create a virtual design laboratory. 

By showing several examples of new electrode materials that have been computationally designed, synthesized, and tested, the impact of first-principles methods in the field of Li battery electrode materials will be demonstrated.

A significant advantage of computational property prediction is its scalability, which is currently being implemented into the Materials Genome Project at M.I.T. Using a high-throughput computational environment, coupled to a database of all known inorganic materials, basic information on all known materials and a large number of novel “designed” materials is being computed. To predict the crystal structure of hypothetical new materials, a new data mining algorithm has been implemented that can, with high accuracy, guess the structure of any new material.  With this ability, several new candidate Li electrode materials have been obtained. 

The talk will conclude with a discussion of the challenges that need to be overcome to further enable the impact of first principles methods.

Bio

Gerbrand Ceder received an engineering degree in Metallurgy and Applied Materials Science from the University of Leuven, Belgium (1988) and a PhD in Materials Science from the University of California at Berkeley (1991).  He then joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), where he is now the R.P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.   Ceder’s research interests are in the field of computational modeling of material properties and the design of novel materials. Currently, much of the focus of his work is on materials for energy generation and storage, including battery materials, hydrogen storage, thermoelectrics, electrodes for fuel cells and photovoltaics. 

He holds five current or pending U.S. patents and has published over 220 scientific papers in the fields of alloy theory, oxide phase stability, high-temperature superconductors, and Li battery materials.  His most recent scientific achievement has been the development of materials for ultrafast battery charging. Ceder has received the Battery Research Award from the Electrochemical Society; the Career Award from the National Science Foundation; and the Robert Lansing Hardy Award from The Metals, Minerals and Materials Society for “exceptional promise for a successful career.”  He has also received three awards from the graduate students at M.I.T. for best teaching.  He is the founder of Computational Modeling Consultants.

 



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