SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM / Jun John Xu Energy Storage Colloquium
Fiber Optics Auditorium
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

8:30 Coffee

9:00 Welcome ‐ Prof. Manish Chhowalla (Director, Nanotechnology for Clean Energy IGERT Program) and Prof. Tom Farris (Dean, School of Engineering, Rutgers University)

9:15 Steve Greenbaum - Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College, CUNY "NMR Studies of Charge and Mass Transport in Ionic Liquid‐Based Polymer Electrolytes: My brief but extraordinarily productive collaboration with Prof. Jun John Xu"

9:45 Wentao Li ‐ Novolyte Technologies, Cleveland, OH "Development of Nonflammable Electrolytes for Lithium Ion Batteries"

10:15 Break

11:00 ChunshengWang - Department of Physics, University of Maryland "Advanced Electrode Materials for Li‐ion Batteries"

11:30 Mali Balasubramanian, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory "Hard X‐ray Spectroscopic Methods at Sector 20 Beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source"

12:00 Lunch and Poster viewing

1:30 Prof. Rick Lehman (Chair, Materials Science and Engineering Dept., Rutgers University)

1:45 Jonah Erlebacher - Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University "Dealloyed Nanoporous Metals/Ionic Liquid Catalysts for High Performance Oxygen Reduction in Fuel Cell Electrocatalysis"

2:15 Hui Ye -Medtronic Energy and Component Center, Brooklyn, MN "Novel Electrolyte Systems for Advanced Metal/Air Batteries"

2:45 Break

3:15 Gaurav Jain ‐ Principal Scientist, Medtronic Corporation, Minneapolis, MN" "Thesis work under Professor John Xu and Work at Medtronic on Implantable Medical Devices"

3:45 Presentation 8: Nader Hagh ‐ NEI Corporation, Somerset, NJ "Recent Advances in Development of Energy Storage Systems"

4 15 Poster Award Presentation

4:45 Adjourn

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