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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='color:#1F497D'>***** Seminar *****</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Center for Integrated Bio and Nano Systems</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Houston Chapter of IEEE Nanotechnology Council and Houston Chapter of IEEE Magnetics Society</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Friday, April 6, 2012</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#1F497D'>12:30 p.m. (Refreshments served at noon)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Room: W122 Building D3</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:24.0pt;color:#3366FF'>Topics of Clean Energy Technologies</span><span class=MsoHyperlink><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;color:#3366CC'> </span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>Prof. Samuel Mao</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt'> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:black'>Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:black'>University of California at Berkeley<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'>Abstract:</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>This presentation will provide a brief introduction of the general scope of the research the speaker is pursuing, followed by a discussion of an enabling high throughput material discovery technology, and the recent progress in two specific areas of clean energy technology: the realization of nanocrystal-polymer light emitting diodes, and the concept of black titanium dioxide with enhanced solar-driven photocatalytic activity.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bio: </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Dr. Samuel Mao is a Director of Clean Energy Engineering Laboratory at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkeley. His research is focused on the development of clean energy technologies as well as the study of enabling materials science. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 2000, and has published about 100 articles that have received over 8000 citations. He also contributed five book chapters and is an inventor of 14 patents. He has delivered more than 60 invited talks at various international conferences and academic institution. He is the co-founder of three international conference series: the First International Symposium on Transparent Conducting Oxides, the First International Conference on Energy Nanotechnology, and the First International Workshop on Renewable Energy. He was a general chair for the MRS annual meeting in the spring of 2011, and will be a co-chair for the 12<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Clean Energy in 2012. He has served as a technology committee member, national laboratory observer, program review panelist, and grant evaluator for the Department of Energy, as well as government of Canada, Japan, and China. He is also a board member of three high tech companies in the clean energy industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#244061'>Contact Prof. Jiming Bao (<a href="mailto:jbao@uh.edu"><span style='color:#244061'>jbao@uh.edu</span></a>) if you would like to arrange for a time to meet with Prof. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mao</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#244061'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>