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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">We will have our Material Research Seminar this Friday (11.15.2024) at 2 p.m., and the speaker is Howard Tu from Rochester Institute of Technology. The topic is “Electro-chemo-mechanics in solid-state
batteries and the understanding on composite cathode issues.” This is an online only seminar and the zoom link is shown below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Electro-chemo-mechanics in solid-state batteries and the understanding on composite cathode issues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">November 15, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/j/89550939375__;!!LkSTlj0I!Er_Rz-gwMK9Kq8tJYmxXVZk4btb0Zs0TBtnbTN9DdZNopb-86YEA-rvO60supADqpEY7WHarysBANjLtKZRMD5SCLBQ$" title="https://uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/j/89550939375"><b><span style="color:#467886">https://uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/j/89550939375</span></b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Meeting ID: 895 5093 9375<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Prof. Howard Qingsong Tu.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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The lack of comprehensive understandings to many fundamental problems hinders the practical applications of solid-state energy storage techniques, which usually originate from the complicated multi-physical couplings spanning across multi-scale. In this talk,
Dr. Tu will share his research in the effort of investigating electro-chemo-mechanical problems laying behind these applications, including the heterogeneous transport and reactions of electrons and Li-ions in the solid-state batteries, the understanding of
dendrite problem, and the development of nanoscale and continuum-scale modeling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Dr. Howard Qingsong Tu is an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department, and runs the clean energy and water lab (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.CewLab.org__;!!LkSTlj0I!Er_Rz-gwMK9Kq8tJYmxXVZk4btb0Zs0TBtnbTN9DdZNopb-86YEA-rvO60supADqpEY7WHarysBANjLtKZRMPjXkR-Q$"><span style="color:#467886">www.CewLab.org</span></a>).
He got his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 2017. He was a postdoc researcher in the material science division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab from 2017-2021. His research has focused on developing sustainable innovative technologies
for energy storage systems (such as solid-state batteries) and water desalination systems (such as reverse osmosis and capacitive deionization), with the close-loop data-simulation-experiment approach.
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