Invitation to Seminar
3D Graphene Nanostructures and Their Applications for Energy Storage
Dr. Qiang Zhan, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,Tsinghua University, China and Visiting Professor & Newton Advanced Fellowship Department of Materials Science & Technology Queen Marry University of London, UK
Abstract: A nanostructured carbon with high specific surface area (SSA), tunable pore structure, superior electrical conductivity, mechanically robust framework, and high chemical stability is highly required for electrochemical energy storage. The porous graphene fabricated by chemical activation and liquid etching has high surface area but very limited volume of electrochemically accessible mesopores. In this talk, the recent advances in CVD assembly of 3D graphene and their applications for batteries and electrocatalysis will be introduced.
The speaker Bio: Qiang Zhang graduated in 2009 as a PhD from the Chemical Engineering Department, Tsinghua University (China). He had been as a Research Associate in Case Western Reserve University (USA), a postdoc in Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (Germany), and a visiting professor in Queen Marry University of London (UK). He was appointed an associate professor of chemical engineering of Tsinghua University in 2011. His course of material chemical engineering and nano energy was top 5% welcome lectures. His research interests is energy materials, especially graphene, lithium-sulfur batteries, and oxygen electrochemistry. He has authored and co-authored over 100 refereed publications, 24 ESI highly cited paper, 7000 citation and a h-index of 46. He is associate editor of RSC Advances.
Thursday 14 April 2015 – 1.00pm-2.00pm
C22 Coates Building