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CORE - Complex Materials summer 2010 conference onComplex materials for energy applicationsKellogg Center, Michigan State UniversityJune 13 - June 16, 2010 Co-Chairs : Phil Duxbury (Physics); Jim McCusker (Chemistry); Don Morelli (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science) We acknowledge generous support from: The office of the vice-president for research at MSU, through the Center of Research Excellence in Complex Materials (CORE-CM); The NSF, through the NSF-Solar program; The DOE, through the Energy Frontier Research Center on Thermoelectric Materials. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE - All talks are in the Lincoln roomSUNDAY June 13thRegistration (6:30pm-8:30pm) and Reception (7pm-9pm) - Centennial RoomMONDAY June 14th7:30am - 8:30am: Continential Breakfast and Registration - Lincoln Room8:30am - 9:15am: Seth Darling (Argonne National Laboratory) Rational design of nanostructured hybrid materials for photovoltaics 9:15am - 9:45am: John Kiel (University of Delaware) Determining the Internal Morphology of Polymer-Based Solar Cells 9:45am - 10:30am: Liang Shi Li (Indiana University) Colloidal Graphene Quantum Dots: Synthesis and Application in Photovoltaics 10:30am - 11:00am: Morning Break 11:00am - 11:45am: John McGuire (Michigan State University) Reproducing the unreproducible: carrier multiplication and photoionization in semiconductor nanocrystals 11:45am - 12:30pm: Kevin Pipe (University of Michigan) Schemes to increase absorption in organic photovoltaic devices 12:30pm-2:00pm: Lunch - Centennial Room 2:00pm-2:45pm: Jeff Long (University of California, Berkeley) Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal-Organic Frameworks 2:45pm-3:30pm: Tom Hamann (Michigan State University) Photoelectrochemistry of Iron Oxide Thin Films 3:30pm-4:00pm: Raj Giridharagopal (University of Washington) Probing Polymer Photovoltaics: Imaging Photocurrents in Organic Solar Cells 4:00pm - 4:30pm: Afternoon Break 4:30pm - 5:15pm: Jason Nicholas (Michigan State University) Recent Developments in the Quest for Low Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells 5:15pm - 6:00pm: Simon Billinge (Columbia University/Brookhaven National Laboratory) Complicated problems: complex materials and complex modeling TUESDAY June 15th7:30am - 8:30am: Continential Breakfast and Registration - Lincoln Room8:30am - 9:15am: Daniel R. Gamelin (University of Washington) Composite mesostructured photoanodes for photoelectrochemical cells 9:15am - 10:00am: David Tiede (Argonne National Laboratory) Structure-Function Analyses of Supramolecular and Biomimetic Designs for Solar Energy Conversion 10:00am - 10:30am: Morning Break 10:30am - 11:15am: Oleg Prezhdo (University of Washington) Photoinduced Dynamics in Nanoscale Materials: A Time-Domain Ab Initio Perspective 11:15am - 12:00pm: Nicholas Powell (Dow Corning, Michigan) Silicone Photovoltaic Encapsulants: Optical Properties and Improved PV Performance 12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch - Centennial Room 1:30pm - 2:15pm: Debra Rolison (Naval Research Laboratory) Multifunctional carbon nanoarchitectures as plug-and-play electrode structures for electrochemical power sources 2:15pm - 3:00pm: Ann Marie Sastry (Universtiy of Michigan) Scale-Bridging Simulations and Experiments of Electrode Materials in Energetic Batteries 3:00pm - 3:45pm: Bart Bartlett (University of Michigan) Low-Temperature Solution-Based Synthetic Routes toward Complex Oxide Nanoparticles for Li-Ion Battery Cathodes 3:45pm - 4:15pm Afternoon Break 3:45pm - 5:30pm Poster Session - Lincoln Room 5:30pm - 10:00pm - Red Cedar Room: Drinks 5:30pm, Conference Banquet 6:30pm After dinner speaker : Dan Nocera (Chemistry, MIT) WEDNESDAY June 16th7:30am - 8:30am Continential Breakfast and Registration - Lincoln Room8:30am - 9:15am: Stephanie Brock (Wayne State University) Design of Nanostructures for Energy Applications 9:15am - 10:00am: Qiang Li (Brookhaven) Properties of bulk non-equilibrium synthesized thermoelectric materials 10:00am - 10:30am: Morning Break 10:30am - 11:15am: Greg Meisner (General Motors, Michigan) Automotive Waste Heat Recovery Using Advanced Thermoelectric Materials 11:15am - 12:00pm: Marco Fornari (Central Michigan University) Toward a first-principles high-throughput search of novel thermoelectrics 12:00pm -- THE END -- |