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Sustainable transportation, integration of renewable electricity into grids, and powering AI computing centers call for innovation of the next generation of batteries, which are energy-dense, durable, safe, and scalable. To address these opportunities, my lab has been conducting research over the past 20 years on reinventing batteries through nano and materials science innovation. Our progress on developing silicon anodes, lithium metal anodes, and sulfur cathodes could enable 2-4 times higher energy density than the existing lithium-ion batteries.

Disruptive technologies have made access to data easier, cheaper, and faster than ever before. This has enabled policymakers and city leaders to better plan and deliver services, enhance municipal revenues, and strengthen their city resilience.

Please join us before the talk at 2pm outside of LL2.224 for refreshments

Title:  Building a Sustainable Data Foundation for AI

Speaker: Yizhong Wang, PhD candidate at the University of Washington

Polymers and water are the major components that constitute most living species on the earth, ranging from animals, plants, and fungi to bacteria. Polymers are also pervasive and indispensable in almost every aspect of our daily life, ranging from food, clothing, housing, and healthcare to transportation, communication, and entertainment. Furthermore, over 6% of global electricity generated from coal is used to make plastics, and microplastics are already ubiquitous in global biosphere.

Addressing the very sustainability of the earth system, global climate, and our energy use has now become a leading area of scientific research.  The sciences of light-matter interactions and electrochemistry are yielding advances that are opening paths for conceptually new sustainable energy technologies that have not previously been achievable.  I will discuss three such “grand challenge” examples.

In-person and Zoom option availabe. Zoom registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrcOqprjgjGNUsvm9RsbfRnHx7WWHyFG-r

In this virtual lecture, Jane P. Chang, 2023–2024 Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow, will explore the interdisciplinary intersection of microelectronics materials processing and physical chemistry, leveraging the studies and understanding of surface reaction controlled chemical selectivity in atomic layer etching to de-poison the catalysts, thereby realizing sustainability in chemical processing

Join the Wyss Institute and our partner, the Collaborative Fund, in this online event, in which we bring together industry leaders and key opinion leaders in important application areas with scientists and innovators in our community to promote a better understanding of the sustainable solutions landscape.

Clay minerals are among the most abundant and sustainable on earth, and due to this and their low-cost they are found in many traditional applications that exploit their physical and chemical properties, including their mechanical stability, their non-toxicity and in effect their underlying 2D nanoscale character.

March 27 |  Zoom Panel 10:30 am - 11:30 am  & Lunch 12:00 pm - 1 pm | SEC West Atrium | Open to all SEAS | Register here

A Harvard Climate Action Week book talk with Prof. Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and Prem Shankar Jha, Former Visiting Fellow, Harvard-China Project; author and journalist

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