Download Nanocarbon Scaffolds for Efficient Energy Conversion and Storage

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Nanocarbon Scaffolds for Efficient Energy
Conversion and Storage
Cary L. Pint
Research Scientist, Extreme Technology
Research Group at Intel Labs
Monday, December 12, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
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Abstract:
One of the greatest challenges facing mankind in the next century is energy management amidst consumption of a finite and limited amount of energy resources. Future innovation in diverse areas ranging from electronics to health is intimately tied to our ability to discover and implement cost-effective alternative energy systems
that are efficient and composed of earth-abundant materials. My talk will begin by discussing fabrication routes
whereby nanocarbon materials can be assembled or chemically rendered to possess characteristics appealing to
diverse energy systems. This includes the synthesis and transfer of hierarchical self-assembled single-walled carbon nanotube materials into controllable, complex 3-D architectures and nanofabrication routes to graft complex
chemical architectures into atomically-thin transferred graphene sheets. I will then discuss how these tunable material architectures can be utilized as bottom-up templates to build a range of efficient energy systems. First I will
discuss recent efforts to build fully solid-state and mechanically robust capacitive energy storage materials utilizing
atomic layer deposition (ALD) on high surface-area aligned single-walled carbon nanotube templates. I will then
discuss the use of nanocarbons as efficient templates for solar-to-fuel conversion applications, where elastocapillary forces can be utilized as a nanofabrication tool for structural design of three-dimensional carbon nanofiber
templates enabling photon management and efficient device performance. Finally, I will close with a discussion of
future plans specifically aimed toward the development of energy storage and conversion systems that are poised
toward both energy system integration and efficiency.
Biography:
Dr. Cary L. Pint is currently a Research Scientist in the Extreme Technology Research Group at Intel Labs
pursing research in the area of efficient energy devices. Cary received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 2010 and
spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley before joining Intel. Cary has authored nearly 40 publications in top journals, has over 10 patents submitted, is a coauthor on a book on carbon
nanomaterials soon to be published, and has been the recipient or finalist for numerous national awards, including
the APS LeRoy Apker Award, the Vanderbilt Prize, and the AVS Dorothy and Earl Hoffman Scholarship.
This seminar counts towards the ME 600 seminar requirement for
Mechanical Engineering graduate students.
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