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Professor GlebYushin

Materials and Engineering and Director of the Center for Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage

Georgia Institute of Technology

NanocompositeElectrodes For Next Generation Energy Storage Devices

GlebYushinis a Professor at the School of Materials and Engineering and a Director of the Center for Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage at Georgia Institute of Technology. For his contributions to materials science, he has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the prestigious KavliFellow Award, R&D 100 Award, Honda Initiation Grant Award, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, and several distinctions from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), such as Nano 50 Award. Dr. Yushinhas co-authored over 30 patents and patent applications, over 80 invited presentations and seminars and  multiple publications on energy storage materials, including the publications in Science, Nature Materials, AngewandteChemie, Advanced Materials and other known journals. His current research is focused on advancing energy storage materials and devices for electronics, transportation and grid applications.

High power energy storage devices, such as Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors, are critical for the development of zero-emission electrical vehicles, large scale smart grid, energy efficient ships and locomotives and various electronic devices. The energy storage characteristics of  these devices are significantly influenced  by the specific capacities of their electrodes, while their power characteristics are influenced by the maximum rate of the ion transport. The talk will focus on the development of nanocompositeelectrodes capable to improve both the energy and power storage characteristics of the state of the art devices. The rationale for the selection of active materials as well as challenges associated with different types of materials will be discussed. Various routes to overcome existing challenges will be presented. In order to overcome the limitations of traditional composites precise control over the materials’ structure and porosity at the nanoscale is required.