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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Come learn about novel developments in fuel cell and battery
technology at the MIT Energy Club’s last lecture of the semester. See
below for details. Please note the TIME (</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>5pm</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> instead of </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>6pm</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>) and
LOCATION (E40-496) change.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cheers,</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kristian Bodek</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Vice President, <font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><a
href="http://web.mit.edu/mit_energy/">MIT Energy Club</a></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
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Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage for A Sustainable Energy Future"</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Yang
Shao-Horn</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Professor,
MIT Mechanical Engineering</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
Wednesday December 13<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>,</span></font> </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>5:00–6:00pm</span></font><font
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<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E40&Buildings=go">E40-496</a></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Abstract</span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The
depletion of fossil fuels and the increasing environmental concerns demands
economical, efficient energy systems. Electrochemical conversion and
storage directly convert chemical energy to direct-current electrical energy
via electrochemical reactions, which has demonstrated high efficiency and great
promise as key components in hybrid energy systems for transportation and
stationary needs. However, the practical energy and power density and the cost
of electrochemical systems such as lithium rechargeable batteries and fuel
cells limit their market penetration and competitiveness relative to
conventional technologies. These performance characteristics strongly depend on
the thermodynamics and kinetics of reactions at the electrode-electrolyte
interface and bulk electrodes, and mass and electron transport to the interface.
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>We will focus on electrode kinetics (charge transfer across the
interface), transport processes and material stability, and will discuss their
effects on the efficiency, energy and power density and durability of lithium
rechargeable batteries, proton exchange membrane and solid oxide fuel cells.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Biography</span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Yang Shao-Horn is Assistant
Professor in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Her research in the Electrochemical
Energy Laboratory probes fundamental processes/phenomena in materials and at
interface to understand molecular/atomic processes of electrochemical oxygen
reduction and lithium storage, reveal materials degradation mechanisms and
develop new materials. She obtained her Ph.D. in Metallurgical and Materials
Engineering from Michigan Tech. in 1998 and then worked as a staff scientist at
Eveready Battery Company. Select honors include Dupont Young Faculty Award
2006; Air Products Faculty Excellence Award 2006; MIT Presidential Energy
Research Council 2005-2006; the 2003 Office of Naval Research Young
Investigator Award; NSF International Research Fellow Award 2000-2002; Norman
Hackerman Young Author Award of 1998 from the Electrochemical Society.</span></font></p>
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