123rd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Symposium
Area Synthesis and Application of Multifunctional Nanocatalyst Materials
Room No. Room 405+406
Time THU 17:20-17:45
Code MAT1-5
Subject Advanced energy conversion and storage devices using nanostructured materials
Authors Jung Tae Park
Department of Chemical Engineering, Konkuk University, Korea
Abstract New materials hold the key to fundamental advances in energy conversion and storage, both of which are vital in order to meet the challenge of global warming and the finite nature of fossil fuels. Nanostructured materials offer unique properties or combinations of properties as electrodes and electrolytes in a range of energy conversion and storage devices. Also, one of the key challenges facing the widespread use and commercialization of promising energy conversion and storage devices (i.e. solar cells, photoelectrochemical cells, electrochemical cells, supercapacitors etc.) is the high cost of the electrode and electrolyte materials and inefficiencies in their assembly and utilization. In this talk, I will present examples of how we are designing nanostructured materials such as self-assembled copolymers, inorganic materials and hybrid templates that can be incorporated into multifunctional composites for high performance energy conversion and storage devices.
E-mail jtpark25@konkuk.ac.kr