Title：Hybrid Nanostructures as Electrode Materials for Alkali Metal-Ion Batteries
Speaker：Professor Zaiping Guo，The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Time：April 7,2021 15:00
Online report：Tencent ID:835931992
Abstract：Energy storage is an important problem to realize low carbon society and there have been many challenges. Lithium ion batteries and sodium ion batteries are particularly attracted attention of scientists and engineers as promising devices. Materials engineering plays a key role in the field of battery research. In particular, engineering materials at the nanoscale offers unique properties resulting in high performance electrodes in various energy storage devices. Consequently, considerable efforts have been made in recent years to fulfill the future requirements of electrochemical energy storage devices. Various multi-functional hybrid nanostructured materials are currently being studied to improve energy and power densities of next generation batteries. In this talk, I will present some of our recent progress in the synthesis of different types of hybrid nanostructures to enhance the electrochemical energy storage properties of metal-ion batteries.
Brief Bio:Professor Zaiping Guo received a PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Wollongong in December 2003. She was an APD Fellow at University of Wollongong, where she continued as a group leader from 2007. She was appointed as a Distinguished Professor in the school of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wollongong since 2019, and recently accepted a Professor position at the School of Chemical Engineering & Advanced Materials, The University of Adelaide. She is also an Associate Editor for ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, a world-renowned journal in materials science. Additionally, she serves as an Editorial/Advisory Board Member for several other journals in the field of energy materials, including Energy Storage Mater., Journal of Physics: Energy (IOP science), and Green Energy & Environment, etc. Her research focuses on the design and application of nanomaterials for energy storage and conversion, including rechargeable batteries, hydrogen storage, and fuel cells. She published more than 450 papers in peer-reviewed Journals, more than 200 papers were published in journals with IF > 10, and these publications have been cited >2,9600 times with an h-index of 92. Her research achievements have been recognised through numerous awards, including an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in 2010, an ARC Future Professorial Fellowship in 2015, and the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher Award in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
