Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2015. 4:30 PM.
Location: Fisher Conference Rooms, Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University
Assistant Professor Matteo Cargnello, Tuesday, April 7, 2015 4:30-5:30 pm, Fisher Conference Rooms, Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University Energy Generation:  Tackling Big Challenges Using Tiny Crystals Understanding that fossil fuels are not endless and that their extensive use is causing irreversible, climate changes prompts us to realize we are in urgent need of sustainable energy processes, energy vectors, and solutions to reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.  Replacing fossil fuels while maintaining our current standard of living may be possible, with the solution in tiny pieces of matter: nanocrystals. Nanocrystals have been known about for a long time but it is only recently that we have been able to better study and control their properties. The advent of nanotechnology and its associated tools allows us to manipulate the composition, size, shape, functionalization, and assembly of nanocrystals and to create nanoarchitectures and macroscopic devices with novel properties and unrivaled performance. In this talk, the use of uniform and tailored nanocrystals for energy and environmental applications will be presented, with an emphasis on how to precisely control the nanostructures to understand and exploit interactions between well-defined building blocks. Applications include hydrogen generation through photocatalysis, reduction of methane emissions, pollution control, and solar cells. Matteo Cargnello is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. After receiving both his degrees (comparable to B.S. and M.S.) in Chemistry in 2006 and 2008, he obtained the Ph.D. in Nanotechnology in 2012 at the University of Trieste (Italy). He was then a post-doctoral scholar in the Chemistry Department at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) before joining the faculty at Stanford. He is the recipient of the ENI Award Debut in Research 2013 and the European Federation of Catalysis Societies Award as best European Ph.D. thesis in catalysis in 2013. His research interests are in heterogeneous catalysis and photocatalysis and in the technological exploitation of nanoparticles and nanocrystals.Â
Location: Fisher Conference Rooms, Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University
Assistant Professor Matteo Cargnello, Tuesday, April 7, 2015 4:30-5:30 pm, Fisher Conference Rooms, Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University Energy Generation:  Tackling Big Challenges Using Tiny Crystals Understanding that fossil fuels are not endless and that their extensive use is causing irreversible, climate changes prompts us to realize we are in urgent need of sustainable energy processes, energy vectors, and solutions to reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.  Replacing fossil fuels while maintaining our current standard of living may be possible, with the solution in tiny pieces of matter: nanocrystals. Nanocrystals have been known about for a long time but it is only recently that we have been able to better study and control their properties. The advent of nanotechnology and its associated tools allows us to manipulate the composition, size, shape, functionalization, and assembly of nanocrystals and to create nanoarchitectures and macroscopic devices with novel properties and unrivaled performance. In this talk, the use of uniform and tailored nanocrystals for energy and environmental applications will be presented, with an emphasis on how to precisely control the nanostructures to understand and exploit interactions between well-defined building blocks. Applications include hydrogen generation through photocatalysis, reduction of methane emissions, pollution control, and solar cells. Matteo Cargnello is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. After receiving both his degrees (comparable to B.S. and M.S.) in Chemistry in 2006 and 2008, he obtained the Ph.D. in Nanotechnology in 2012 at the University of Trieste (Italy). He was then a post-doctoral scholar in the Chemistry Department at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) before joining the faculty at Stanford. He is the recipient of the ENI Award Debut in Research 2013 and the European Federation of Catalysis Societies Award as best European Ph.D. thesis in catalysis in 2013. His research interests are in heterogeneous catalysis and photocatalysis and in the technological exploitation of nanoparticles and nanocrystals.Â