19th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
A yearly forum for faculty, postdocs, and students engaged in nanoscience and nanotechnology research.听
STUDENT LIFE, BOARD OF TRUST
1:00 鈥� 1:15听 Welcome听Sandra Rosenthal, Director of VINSE
1:15 鈥� 1:30听 Optical Metasurfaces for Wavefront Control听Jason Valentine,听ME
1:30 鈥� 1:45听听Carbon-based Nanomaterials for Biosensing听Yaqiong Xu,听EECS
1:45 鈥� 2:00听听Deep-subwavelength confinement in dielectric optical resonators听Sharon Weiss,听EECS
2:00 鈥� 2:15听 Thermal Transport through Quasi-1D van der Waals Crystal Nanowires听Deyu Li,听ME
2:15 鈥撎�2:30听 Computation Nanoscience听Peter Cummings,听ChBE
FEATHERINGILL HALL
2:30 鈥� 3:15听 POSTER SESSION
3:15听鈥� 3:30听 Examining the Self-Assembly of Skin Lipids听Clare McCabe,听ChBE
3:30 鈥� 3:45听 Polymeric Nanomedicines for Undruggable Targets听Craig Duvall,听BME
3:45听鈥� 4:00听 Multimodal, Multiplexed Imaging to Detect Immunomarkers with Gold Nanostars听Yu-Chuan ‘May’ Ou,听Graduate Student, ChBE
4:00听鈥� 4:15听听Measuring and Mimicking Sub-cellular听Mechanics in Disease听Cynthia Reinhart-King,听BME
4:15 鈥� 5:00听 POSTER SESSION
5:10 鈥� 6:00听 KEYNOTE SPEAKER听Nanomaterials Design for Energy and Environment听Yi Cui, Stanford University
6:00 听 听 听 听 听 听RECEPTION AND POSTER AWARDS
Abstract.听听Nanotechnology has provided a novel technology platform which can address critical energy and environmental problems and enable new opportunities. In the past decade, my group has conducted research on innovative ideas to address problems related to energy conversion, storage and saving, and environment cleaning (air, water and soil), to create new opportunities in wearable applications. Here I will show exciting examples, including: 1) high energy battery materials including Si and Li metal anodes and S cathodes; 2) electrochemical tuning of catalysts; 3) Water disinfection using conducting nanofilters and uranium extraction for seawater. 4) Nanofiber air filters for efficient PM2.5 removal and low air resistance. 5) Cooling and heating textile for personal thermal management. Nanotechnology represents the most important foundational technology platform to impact nearly all areas of applications.
Bio. Yi Cui is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received B.S. in Chemistry in 1998 at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Ph.D in 2002 at Harvard University. After that, he went on to work as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. In 2005 he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. In 2010 he was promoted with tenure. His current research is on nanomaterials for energy storage, photovotalics, topological insulators, biology and environment. He has founded three companies to commercialize technologies from his group: Amprius Inc., 4C Air Inc. and EEnovate Technology Inc. He is a Fellow of Materials Research Society, a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of Electrochemical Society. He is an Associate Editor of Nano Letters. He is a Co-Director of the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium and a Co-Director of Battery 500 Consortium. He is a highly proliferate materials scientist and has published more than 400 research papers. In 2014, he was ranked NO.1 in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters as 鈥淭he World鈥檚 Most Influential Scientific Minds鈥�. His selected awards include: Blavatnik National Laureate (2017), MRS Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience (2015), the Sloan Research Fellowship (2010), KAUST Investigator Award (2008), ONR Young Investigator Award (2008), Technology Review World Top Young Innovator Award (2004).