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From Batteries to Solar Cells: Exploring Energy Materials on the Atomic Scale
Further breakthroughs in materials for low carbon energy applications require advances in new compositions and underpinning materials science.
Indeed, a greater fundamental understanding into new materials for lithium batteries and solar cells require atomic-scale characterization of their structural, electronic and transport behaviour. In this context, a combination of materials modelling and experimental work is now a powerful approach for investigating these properties on the atomic scale.
This presentation will describe such studies in two principal areas: (i) redox chemistry of lithium-rich cathodes for lithium-ion batteries; and (ii) ion migration and molecular passivation effects in metal-halide perovskites for solar cells.
Bio:
Saiful Islam is Professor of Materials Science at the University of Oxford, UK. He grew up in London and obtained his Chemistry degree and PhD from University College London followed by positions at the Eastman Kodak Labs, New York, USA, and the Universities of Surrey and Bath.
His research encompasses atomic- and nano-scale processes in new materials for lithium- and sodium-ion batteries, and for perovskite solar cells. He leads the Faraday Institution CATMAT project on lithium cathode materials and has received awards from the Royal Society, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry.
Saiful presented the 2016 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for BBC TV on the theme of energy, which included a lemon battery world record. He is a Patron of Humanists UK and when not exploring energy materials, he enjoys family breaks (as a dad of two), films and indie music.
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Join us for the Montreal Premiere of "How to Power a City!"
We are excited to host the Montreal premiere of this new documentary that showcases climate solutions and renewable energy projects that communities across the U.S. are implementing.
Registration
The screening takes place at Cin茅ma du mus茅e on Nov. 19, 2024, at 4:00 pm.
Following the screening,听Director Melanie La Rosa will join us for a panel discussion with Q&A, followed by cocktails.
Thank you to MSSI, Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI), TISED and Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy (TISPP) for partnering with us for this event!
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About the documentary
"How To Power A City" is a solutions-focused climate story. It is a front-row seat to witness how people are leading solar and wind projects in their hometowns.
The film reveals how each community faces obstacles from fossil fuel dependence to technical impasses, public ignorance, cost, indifferent leaders, and superstorm disasters.
They prevail with solutions that do more than just create electricity.
About Director Melanie La Rosa
Melanie La Rosa is an award-winning filmmaker and professor. Her documentary, "How To Power A City" (2023) follows people leading renewable energy projects in six U.S. and Puerto Rico locales.
She is a Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis with the OpEd Project and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the author of "Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution" (Lexington Books, 2022).
Her films air nationally on PBS and have screened at festivals worldwide. Her articles appear in World War Zero, The Progressive, and other national publications, and she has won many competitive grants supporting her films.
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