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Thermoelectric Energy Conversion: Science and Engineering Challenges and Opportunities
Online Presentations | 13 Feb 2020 | Contributor(s):: Arunava Majumdar
This talk will provide a viewpoint of these new scientific opportunities and challenges in the context of practical performance and cost metrics. It will also offer new approaches to manipulate entropy change in liquid media for the purpose of energy conversion.
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The Quest for Safer Rechargeable Batteries
Online Presentations | 19 Dec 2018 | Contributor(s):: Vilas Pol
The ViPER (Vilas Pol Energy Research) laboratory focuses on the development of high-capacity electrode materials, their engineering for longer cycle life and improved safety.
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Hydrogen Storage: Status, Perspectives, and Industrial Applications
Online Presentations | 05 Dec 2017 | Contributor(s):: Timothee Pourpoint
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Charge Transport in Perovskite Solar Cells Visualized using Ultrafast Microscopy
Online Presentations | 27 Nov 2017 | Contributor(s):: Jordan Snaider
Overcoming the Shockley-Queisser limit for solar cell efficiency is possible if hot carriers can be harvested before they reach thermal equilibrium with the surrounding lattice. To efficiently extract hot carriers, they need to migrate sufficiently long distances for collection at the...
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Metal Combustion for Energy, and Energetic Material Applications
Online Presentations | 27 Nov 2017 | Contributor(s):: Steven F. Son
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An Introduction to Rechargeable Batteries
Online Presentations | 27 Nov 2017 | Contributor(s):: Vilas Pol
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Power for Pulse Power Applications
Online Presentations | 12 Dec 2016 | Contributor(s):: Robert P. Hamlen
The focus of this talk will be to provide information of electrochemical systems capable of providing pulse power for a variety of applications, from electric buses to pulse power weapons. There will be a review of the various primary and rechargeable batteries, as well as a discussion of...
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dualfoil.py Tutorial: User-Friendly Electrochemical Simulations for Porous Electrodes
Online Presentations | 10 Feb 2016 | Contributor(s):: R. Edwin García
Tutorial lecture for the tool dualfoil.py.
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dualfoil.py Demonstration Video: User-Friendly Electrochemical Simulations for Porous Electrodes
Online Presentations | 10 Feb 2016 | Contributor(s):: R. Edwin García
Companion demonstration video for the tool dualfoil.py.
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Limits of Thermal Processes and their Implications on Efficient Energy Utilization
Online Presentations | 27 Oct 2010 | Contributor(s):: Arunava Majumdar
About 90 percent of the world’s energy use involves thermal processes – thermal engines to generate mechanical power; heating and cooling in buildings; heating involved in manufacturing of steel, cement, glass, petrochemicals etc. To identify opportunities for improving current...
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Renewable Solar Energy: Has the Sun Finally Risen on Photovoltaics?
Online Presentations | 10 Apr 2009 | Contributor(s):: Mark R. Pinto
After a review of the overall renewable energy landscape, including the central role of economics, we present here the case that PV is on the verge of becoming a major source of electrical power through a principle similar to that which underlies the 50 year progress of IC technology - the...
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Affordable Clean Energy: Challenges and Opportunities
Online Presentations | 20 Oct 2008 | Contributor(s):: Hukam C. Mongia
The technical presentation is built around the August 9th 2008 ABC News/Planet Green/Stanford Poll on Environment/Energy in which the majority of the people polled expressed support for the following ideas: increase fuel efficiency standards, allowing drilling offshore, people and businesses are...