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Summary Sentence: Gary Rubloff presents a talk on the increasing role of thin film synthesis and 3D nano/micro fabrication to advance the science and to achieve the benefits of advanced nanostructures for energy storage.
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Gary Rubloff"Enabling New Domains of Electrical Energy Storage through Thin Film Synthesis and 3D Fabrication"
Gary Rubloff, Distinguished University Professor and Minta Martin Professor of Engineering
University of Maryland
Professor
Abstract:
Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage (NEES), is focused on the structure of multicomponent nanoscale electrode components and their aggregation into mesoscale architectures as vehicles to elucidate electrochemical energy storage . Our group specializes in atomic layer deposition (ALD) and related thin film processes, in-situ metrology, and characterization methods to achieve high aspect ratio 3D nanostructures. We have developed and applied ALD for cathode, anode, solid electrolyte, and current collector materials to realize high power nanobattery arrays. Our current focus has been on solid electrolytes for their role in all-solid-state 3D batteries and as protection layers for reactive metal anodes in organic-electrolyte applications. These investigations point the way to an increasing role of thin film synthesis and 3D nano/micro fabrication to advance the science and to achieve the benefits of advanced nanostructures for energy storage.
Biography:
Gary W. Rubloff (www.rubloffgroup.umd.edu) is Distinguished University Professor and Minta Martin Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland. Following his PhD in physics at U. Chicago and a postdoc at Brown U., he held research and research management positions over 20 years at IBM Research Yorktown Heights - in Physical Sciences, Silicon Technology, and Manufacturing Research - where his leadership in ultraclean integrated semiconductor processing and diagnostics led to his receipt of the AVS Gaede-Langmuir Prize in 2000. He joined UMD in 1996 as Director of the Institute for Systems Research until 2001. He has served as the founding Director of the Maryland NanoCenter (www.nanocenter.umd.edu) since 2004. His research areas have included surface and solid state science, electronic materials and processing, real-time sensing/metrology and advanced process control, nanoscale processes and atomic layer deposition, multicomponent multifunctional nanostructures for energy applications, and biofabrication and biomicrosystems for metabolic engineering and biological signaling. In 2009 he led the creation of Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage (www.efrc.umd.edu), a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center, where he continues to serve as Director.
Gary W. Rubloff's Research Group
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