Affordable Clean Energy: Challenges and Opportunities

20 Oct 2008 | Online Presentations | 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5575

Aluminum: a safe, economical, high energy density material for energy storage, transport and splitting water to make hydrogen on demand

30 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jerry M. Woodall

In 1968, a team lead by the author discovered that liquid gallium saturated with aluminum at room temperature would split water into hydrogen gas, alumina and heat. More recently his current team has …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6568

Competing Policy Choices at the Intersection of Energy and Climate Change – An Engineer’s Role

03 Feb 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Suresh V. Garimella

I will explore the tension between the seemingly contradictory but equally critical needs of energy security and climate change mitigation, and discuss the potential of renewable sources. I will …

https://nanohub.org/resources/13050

Dynmical Models for Thermopower

19 Apr 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Giulio Casati

Dynamical nonlinear systems provide a new approach to the old problem of increasing the efficiency of thermoelectric machines. Here we discuss stylized models of classical dynamics, including non …

https://nanohub.org/resources/13829

ECE 595E Numerical Simulations for Energy Applications

17 Jan 2013 | Courses | Contributor(s): Peter Bermel

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https://nanohub.org/resources/16570

Energy and Nanoscience A More Perfect Union

29 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark A. Ratner

Huge problems of energy and sustainability confront the science/engineering community, mankind, and our planet. The energy problem comes in many dimensions, including supply, demand, conservation, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6554

Energy Biofuels: An Even Better Alternative to Oil

10 Oct 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Maureen McCann

Purdue Energy Club, Discovery Park, C3Bio

https://nanohub.org/resources/11790

Energy Innovations in the 21st Century: Role of ARPA-E

13 Oct 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arunava Majumdar

We are living through a Sputnik moment in our nation’s history, where we have witnessed multiple wake up calls with regards to the need for innovating in energy technologies. ARPA-E was created to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9868

How Chemical Engineers Will Save the World

26 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): William F. Banholzer

The world is facing massive challenges brought on by population growth, economic meltdowns, and environmental constraints. Scientific solutions are needed now more than ever. In this seminar, an …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6462

Innovations and a Sustainable Energy Future

29 Dec 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arunava Majumdar

Keynote speech for the 2010 Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) National Conference.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9904

Introductory Seminars on What is Nanotechnology?

06 Apr 2010 | Series | Contributor(s): Joseph M. Cychosz (editor)

A collection of presentations which answer an aspect of the question "What is nano?"

https://nanohub.org/resources/7486

Lecture 24: The 4 Molecules of life

29 Apr 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Paul R Selvin

Atoms, Molecules, Macromolecules, you! Amino Acids, Sugars used as signals, Fatty Acids/Lipids

https://nanohub.org/resources/4479

Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass

13 Nov 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Michael R. Ladisch

Report on the National Academies’ America’s Energy Future Study 2009.

https://nanohub.org/resources/7840