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Harvard Science and Engineering Complex
Disruptive Technologies for Resilient and Sustainable Cities
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.
Sameh Wahba, Global Director (Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice), World Bank
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Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) 124
Soft Materials Innovation for Health and Sustainability
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.
Xuanhe Zhao, MIT
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Pierce Hall 209
Three Grand Challenges for Energy Science and Sustainability
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.
Harry Atwater (Caltech)
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Pierce Hall 209
Building Institutions for Sustainability Science: Opportunities and Challenges
In-person and Zoom option availabe. Zoom registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrcOqprjgjGNUsvm9RsbfRnHx7WWHyFG-r
Kamal Bawa, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UMass Boston
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Maxwell Dworkin G125
De-poisoning Catalysts for Sustainable Chemical Processing
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
Jane P. Chang
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Clay minerals as 2D natural nanomaterials for sustainable applications
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.
Jon Otto Fossum
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Pierce Hall 213
Sustainability and the Fashion Industry: what does it mean to be in charge of Impact?
Join us for this MDE Talk to hear from Juliet Russell, Head of Sustainability at Stella McCartney.
With experience working across a variety of industries in Impact and Sustainability and spending time at brands including Stella McCartney and PANGAIA, Juliet explores what it means to work in this space within the fashion industry, whilst bringing an academic perspective to what is often of creative & business dominance.
Juliet Russell
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Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Piper Auditorium
Special MRSEC Seminar: Design and Synthesis of Nanomaterials and Nanosystems for Biomedical and Sustainability Applications
Nanostructured materials can be designed with sophisticated features to fulfill the complex requirements of advanced material applications. Our laboratory has developed organic and inorganic nanoparticles and nanocomposites for advanced drug delivery, antimicrobial, stem cell culture, and tissue engineering applications. In addition, we have nanofabricated microfluidic systems for drug screening, in vitro toxicology, and diagnostic applications.
Dr. Jackie Y. Ying
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Pierce Hall 209
Texas: From Carbon Emitter to Green Hydrogen Exporter - A Promising Sustainable Future
A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Haiyang Lin, Harvard-China Project Postdoctoral Fellow
Haiyang Lin, Harvard-China Project Postdoctoral Fellow
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Pierce Hall 100F
Coral Reefs and Super Black Animals: Lessons in Sustainability from Nature’s Photonic Experts
Solar energy shapes climate and life on a planetary scale. Coral reefs, essential ecosystems, depend on photosynthetic symbioses between animals and algae. However, climate change has devastated reefs worldwide. I unite materials science, computational analysis, and environmental science to research coral reef resilience and inspire new sustainable technologies based on nature’s materials.
Dakota McCoy (Stanford University)
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Pierce Hall 209
From Chip-Edge to Grid-Edge: Power Electronics as an Enabling Technology for Sustainable Development of Human Society
Power electronics is a core technology for future energy systems including data centers, transportation electrification, and distributed energy resources. The performance and functionality of power electronics in these systems critically impact the sustainable development of human society.
Minjie Chen (Princeton University)
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Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) LL2.224
MDE Talk: Amanda Parkes, "High Tech Naturalism: Developing Sustainable Textiles around a Model for Scientific and Business Innovation within the Biocycle"
Sustainability and technical functionalism are often at odds with each other within the realm of material science. Textiles sit at this crossroads in a very particular way- as a product of mass produced-mass consumption across the globe while maintaining a deeply technological basis in their development and processes- spanning the historic infrastructure of computation (the Jacquard Loom) to the contemporary challenges of the most scientifically advanced systems of biology and nanotechnology.
Amanda Parkes
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Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) 1.413